Solyndra: Legal and Ethical Issues Barbara Zimmerman BUSN311-D003 American Military University Professor Teresa Knox Solyndra: Legal and Ethical Issues Dr. Chris Gronet founded the Solyndra Solar Company in 2004. Gronet is prominent in the Silicone Valley for being a technological genius, celebrated for his innovations in alternative energy (Weiner, 2012). Less than a year later Solyndra was solicited by the United States Department of Energy, who was very interested in investing in the “clean” alternative energy that Solyndra promised, and the business soared. Solyndra’s practices made headway and even caught the attention of President Obama. But by 2011 Solyndra had declared bankruptcy and became the core of one of America’s largest business scandals. Throughout this paper I will discuss the legal and ethical issues surrounding Solyndra’s business practices and offer examples as to how the philosophy of Milton Friedman may have influenced the company’s executives. Dr. Chris Gronet was the epitome of a Silicon Valley high achiever. After receiving his decorate in semiconductor processing from Stanford’s School of Engineering, Dr. Gronet founded a startup and jointly filed multiple patents in semiconductor manufacturing (Hull, 2011). Solyndra began as a thriving solar energy company, earning the company a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy within a year of its conception. It may have been the ferocious competition, the drop of silicon
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I would hire Jody because she is a “certified physician coder through AAPC” that is required by state and federal law. When an agency or organization performs a review and grants recognition to an institution that meets specific standards; which are required, it is accredited. This accreditation process is done so that facilities can pinpoint when organizations do “not” meet these standards and to endorse those that “do” meet these standards by state and federal laws.
Assistant Superintendent Denise Bartlett presented the first reading of proposed revisions that combine the policy and regulations into one document. She reported that with the guidance from legal counsel, the language in the policy is very explicit as to the requirements of administrators, as well as law enforcement when involved in student interviews and arrests. Dr. Bartlett reviewed the revised policy that has been reworked with headings and subheadings to assist administrators in determining which section of the policy may pertain to a specific incident and the revisions of the exhibits.
Solyndra was an energy company based in Fremont, California founded in 2005. The company manufactured cylindrical panel made of copper indium gallium selenide with thin film solar cells (Lott, Solyndra-Illuminating Energy Funding Flow, 2011). In August of 2011, however Solyndra announced that it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, lying off 1,100 employees and shutting down operations and manufacturing. Additional in September, 2011, Solyndra was raided by the FBI and agents were sent to the homes of CEO’s and founder Chris Gronet to review computer files and documents (Leoning, FBI searches shattered Solyndra of files, plant in California, 2011). If matters could not get any worse for the CEO’s and founder of Solyndra, the Obama Administration
Ethico-legal issues and conflicts arise when health professionals are faced with difficult decisions, even though the outcomes may be unfavourable or pose risk to their patient (Mistovich & Karren, 2014). In another phrase, ethico-legal issues are challenging because they often cause paramedics to choose between the lesser of two evils. Thus, it is a normal part of a paramedic’s job to make difficult decisions in ambiguous situations (Townsend & Luck, 2013). The case study on Cara highlights an array of ethical and legal considerations that need to be enforced, with the main two being the vague nature of competency and capacity and the legal and ethical issues associated with an advanced care directive.
The public hospitals in the US are facing a financial constraint in caring for undocumented immigrants due to uncompensated care. Do hospitals have the right to limit the care they can provide to these populations? Is the hospital legally, ethically, and morally obligated to continue the care for an undocumented immigrant? These ethical questions linger in mind when confronted with a situation that our hospital suffers when a patient with illegal status has little or no hope of accessing the health care system.
The job description and personal specifications are the part of job advertising, which is the step of recruitment process. However, recruitment and selection process includes many more steps, continue even after the selection of a candidate. The proper documentation is needed to be maintained as directed by the data protection act at every step of recruitment and selection process. In addition to this there are some other legislations provide framework for fair recruitment process such as Equal Pay Act(1970), the sex discrimination acts (1975 1nd 1986), the race relations act (1976, 2000), the disability discrimination act (1995 and amendments), the employment equality
The concept of autonomy spans both ethical and legal issues as it pertains to the aging population. This paper will focus on the ethical perspective of trying to keep a balance between allowing an aging (65+) person to maintain their autonomy when making rational and intelligent life choices while at the same time assisting them from making bad choices that might harm them emotionally, financial, spiritually or even physically in some instances. Autonomy comes from the Greek word for “self rule,” and defines a person’s ability or capacity to make choices based on their personal beliefs and values. Unless decision-making capacity is taken away from a person through legal measures, all adults are presumed to have capacity to
He specified the position of unfettered market and it was very clearly that many counties had shadowed his philosophy; his line of thought was where countries had expanded with opportunity from the corporations. In Solyndra circumstance, I would state that the government had left all the energy corporations to their own strategies and arrangements and consent any guesswork to the specialists of marketing such as a venture capitalists. This was become known in the supposition of the corporation and they forfeiture over half a billion dollars of society’s taxes this should of never occurred (bowman, 1990). The unethical and unlawful engagements of the bankruptcy had the greatest result on the managers of Solyndra. Many managers pleaded in front of the firm’s panel, and some of the high-ranking superviser at Solyndra has exploited their bonuses and reimbursed to them in the sum of $ 370, 000 concerning the corporation’s full indebtedness which was attained. The investors of the corporation said that the government did not interfere in
Kate is the owner of a successful business, selling women’s shoes. Her business is expanding fast and she wants to upgrade her business structure to a more appropriate one. What would be your recommendation to Kate and why? What are the factors that influence you with this advice?
In this matter of the use of anencephalics as organ donors, the New Natural Law theorist must first consider that which is alive, what constitutes life in the eyes of the current law system, and the value of a life for the possible extension of another life, or possibly lives. I have come to the conclusion that New Natural Law would allow for an anencephalic to be an organ donor on the basis that it would not have the ability to live and pursue self- sustainable life, therefore the right to life is the moral fulfillment that this particular ethicist would pursue. Phronesis applied to the individual in question would not allow for life to be pursued since the child is born dying due to lack of means to survive. The moral fulfillment of the New Natural Law Theory is human flourishing based upon the virtuous pursuit of the seven basic and reflexive goods of the theory. Therefore, any anencephalic is born in a vegetative state and in essence is born dying, however science would prove that any human being is naturally born dying. The very fact that one is born means that there is death for that life.
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