Corporate Raiders Case

A case concerning monopolies and the Court’s first antitrust case. In 1982, American Sugar Refining Company entered into agreements that allowed it to take over the four Pennsylvania refineries, including E.C. Knight Company, which would give American Sugar absolute control of 98 percent of the U.S. sugar refining business. The federal government sued to break the acquisition agreements because the agreement allows the sugar companies to operate as a monopoly in restraint of trade in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The United States argued that the federal government can prohibit monopolies and set aside agreements that have created them in order to allow most Americans to enjoy

Physical security can be very complex, as the evolution of technology changes on a daily basis. The dual role concept is a dilemma that poses a constant struggle within the agency. The ability to maintain consistency with technological advancements utilizing physical security practices of the past is a significant challenge that FPS faces. Another area of concern is the complexity of security and the deficiency of training. Advancements in technology necessitate training advancements. From the initial understanding of basic alarm theory covering the simplistic concept and design of an intrusion detection system (IDS), to a system that is virtually state of the art in capability and technical

America has been called the “Land of Opportunity” and is gaining a reputation as such from people all around the world. The reality is that this “land of opportunity” is limited to only the rich. Tycoons, such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, are monopolizing off of the labor of the poor, and destroying any competition. Many people are now referring to them as Robber Barons.

1. Explain whom Vanderbilt, Carnegie and Rockefeller are. Should industrialists like Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Rockefeller be viewed as “robber barons” or “captains of industry”? Define “robber barons” and “captains of industry. Analyze your perspective as fully as you can.

When I was present, the plaintiff and defendant were each giving their precedent. The plaintiff’s representative talked James King sent a threatening letter to Judge Seel’s house. In which, he explained descriptive evidence on how King made “threats” to Judge Seel in his argument. James King, on the other hand, was a man with a lot of “problems”. He stated that he was not in the right state of mind when he made the threat to Judge Seel. Also

I feel that the people who commit these crimes are just overwhelmingly greedy and cannot control themselves. If they were able to build up the company, they obviously are intelligent minds and more than likely already have a significant amount of money. Something needs to be done, especially when so many people are affected. Millions of people lost so much money and too many lost their life savings just because the people at the top of Enron were greedy.

As such, our company’s people resources pose the greatest risk for security breach. Our way to help mitigate risk in this area is to keep communication lines open in this area and to continually mandate security knowledge training, with mandatory updates on a regular basis. When the employees are informed of company policy when facing a security matter, they are better equipped to act in the best or right way. In this way knowledge is power – or at least empowerment to act in the best interest of the company’s information security.

During the trial, the aggrieved tried to unearth the evident relationship that existed between the producer and the store as well as the benefit that the defendant unjustly received. Since in its arbitration the District Court settled to the notion of intending to ascertain, “What promises” the defendant made either before or at the conclusion of the auditions to the extent the

The ethical issue in this case is that Jon suggests to default the debt with Johnson Printing, a small business that has been loyal to Pacific Life Books (PLB). This is an ethical issue because Raider Inc. has the resources to pay off PLB’s debt, but would rather default on $250,000 and let a small business end up closing. Jon’s action would benefit his team and Raider Inc., but would harm Johnson Printing’s business and employees. The result would be another loyal business closed and employees out of job.

Between April 20th 2010 and July 15th 2010, BP's drilling rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico was the biggest oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Eleven people died. # of days later and $ in fines, BP stopped the spilling of oil into the ocean. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) reported on September 17th, “in terms of land animals, at least 3000 have died, tens of thousands of others have been affected [including] millions of sea organisms [although] there is no accurate count”. Conversely, it is unlikely that other than those that have been directly affected can recall the amphetamine weight loss drug scandals between the 1960’s to 1990. For that matter, likely few are motivated enough to look up the

During this chapter I found interesting the focus of corporate crime and how many of the harmful activities are legal, or were legal for an extended amount of time. The activities include, specifically third world countries, highly hazardous and dangerous working conditions and exportation of unsafe products. These products are usually banned in developed countries, such as toxic waste. Other legal activities that transnationals can engage in include; the use of child labor in order to profit greatly where these activities are outlawed. The United States requires minimum wage for work where in foreign countries these large corporations can pay the workers next to nothing and make a huge profit. As long as these corporations can take business

At the closure of the paper, recommendations are being presented not only to the portfolio manager but also to the AutoZone. Interestingly, how much of an impact can an interference of a corporate raider have on the growth of a company

Tyco began in 1960 when it was founded by Arthur Rosenberg and started as an investment holding firm. In 1973 Joseph Gaziano took over for Rosenberg as CEO and pursued many hostile acquisitions. He was successful and was able to grow the company to a net worth of $140 million before he passed away in 1982. The CEO who took his place was John Fort who came in with the basic strategy of maximizing shareholder wealth through dramatically cutting costs. When John Fort left his position in 1992, Tyco was comprised of Fire Protection, Electronics, and Packaging departments. Dennis Kowalski was able to work his way to the top of Tyco and take the CEO position in 1992. Kowalski began as

Unhappy and unsatisfied employees of the two entities who feel they were not involved. Angry shareholders who want an explanation as to why things are the way they are. They do not understand why the share price is falling in the stock market (Davis, 2008).

Often retailers will overtly protect expensive, top-shelf products, however this may result in increased theft of less secure, bottom-shelf goods. This incidence is referred to as redistributive crime. Retailers prioritize the products they secure and those that they leave unsecured, leading to an increase in the shrink of the items that were of less concern. In most retail companies, there is a loss prevention (LP) department tasked with minimizing product loss, referred to as inventory shrink. LP is implemented to reduce the preventable loss of a company’s assets, like the loss associated with redistributive crime, by utilizing technologies that mitigate theft and fraud. Retailers continuously adapt their technologies to handle threats, but there are still numerous underlying issues, such as employee theft, fraud, and shoplifting. Furthermore, the improved technology that consumers have access to increases their ability to steal products like ink. This drives LP to make technological progress to prevent further inventory shrinkage. However, there are budget constraints and efficiency problems that arise with newer, more complex LP technology. Using a case study of the ink department at Office Depot, this paper will evaluate redistributive crime and analyze the security measures needed to combat such crimes. While doing this, I will pay particular attention to the marginal benefits and marginal costs of the Electronic Article Surveillance (EAS) systems in