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    Running head: RESTORING A TARNISHED IMAGE Restoring A Tarnished Image- Global Challenges for Exxon-Mobil Case Study What should be done to improve the image of a company whose name is synonymous with environmental disaster and bribery? Exxon-Mobil’s C.E.O. Rex Tillerson faces this challenge. As C.E.O. of the largest publicly traded oil company in the world with the highest posted record profit ever in 2006 ( $39.5 billion) and revenues in excess of #377 billion, (www.boston.com) Tillerson

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    The Ship Of The Cargo

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    The vessel was traveling outside normal shipping lanes in an attempt to avoid ice. Within six hours of the grounding, the Exxon Valdez spilled approximately 10.9 million gallons of its 53 million gallon cargo of Prudhoe Bay crude oil. The article states that the vessel encounter icebergs in the shipping lanes caused the decision of leaving the shipping lanes. However, it is unknown why the orders of returning to the shipping lanes at a certain point where not followed. However, five probable causes

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    Throughout human history there have been many disasters that have plagued humanity. These disasters have caused an untold amount of damages and an untold number of lives lost. Each disaster is different from each other and each can leave their own impact on human civilization. Many of these disasters are of the nature variety, these typically include your hurricanes, tornados, tsunamis, and many others that can impact humanity. We can’t control these types of disasters, any many of them can strike

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    Exxon Disaster Recovery

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    Introduction The wreckage caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill which occurred nearly twenty-eight years ago on this date 3/24/1989 is often considered to be one of the most unsettling natural disasters produced by human hands. Along with the disaster which will be covered in detail, this paper will discuss the Control OBjectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT). COBIT according to Reynolds; “is a set of guidelines whose goal is to align IT resources and processes with business objectives

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    On the Easter Sunday of March 24, 1989 an oil tanker destined for Long Beach, California was stopped short of its destination when it struck the Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef (PWS). In charge of the ship was Captain Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood. It was reported that Captain Hazelwood was not at the bridge of the ship during the incident. Furthermore he was accused of alcohol intoxication that might have contributed to the event. This event caused a catastrophic oil spill that resulted in 11 million

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    BP Vs Exxon Fracking

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    adult life. I was newly married when the Exxon Valdez ran aground. I had two brothers working on off shore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico when the BP Deepwater Horizon rig exploded. The world’s dependence upon oil and gas has created a need to find alternate energy and one of those ways is through fracking. Let us compare these oil disasters and fracking, and first consider how managing ethical risk can reduce accidents, next compare the risk that BP, Exxon, and the fracking industry face to continue

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    Alaska Oil Spill Essay

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    The spill occurred at midnight on March 24th, 1989 when the tanker ran aground on the Bligh Reef in the Prince William Sound of Alaska. The tanker, which filled up in Valdez, Alaska, was headed to Los Angeles, California (Cleveland, 2008). Several factors are said to have contributed to the grounding. First, the tanker was traveling outside of the shipping lanes, in an effort to avoid ice. Then due to fatigue, the third mate failed to maneuver the ship properly, while the ship captain provided poor

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    (Ironically, the Exxon Mobil merger reassembled the legendary Standard Oil, John Rockefeller’s company. In 1911, antitrust authorities forced Standard Oil to break into two companies: Standard Oil of New Jersey, which later became Exxon, and Standard Oil of New York, which later became Mobil.) Nonetheless, the two companies had very different images in the oil industry. Mobil was seen as having a “combative feistiness,” whereas Exxon had a “relentlessly efficient stuffiness

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    Some constituents of concern in the tailing breach include: - Heavy metals such as arsenic, copper, manganese, selenium and zinc. -Turbidity and suspended solids/silt b) (0.5 pt) Describe the possible and documented environmental effects of the breach. Some of the possible environmental effects include: - Unsafe drinking water for residences - Corrosion of land due to large amounts of flowing water - Unhealthy effects on wildlife and habitats There were many documented environment effects which

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    Exxon Mobil is a combination of two of the United States’ oldest oil companies: Jersey Standard and Vacuum Oil Company. These companies are 2 of the 34 oil companies that Standard Oil was broken up into after the 1911 Supreme Court decision that ended John D. Rockefeller’s trust. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States case decision was made after the court deemed the Standard Oil Company’s monopoly on oil businesses unnecessary and in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The name

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