Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A corporate scandal involves alleged or actual unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. Many recent corporate collapses and scandals have involved some type of false or inappropriate accounting (see list at accounting scandals).
For example, the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 was made more severe due to the heavy concentration of lumber industry facilities, wood houses, and fuel and other chemicals in a small area. The Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents is designed to protect people and the environment from industrial accidents.
Dodge v. Ford Motor Co., 204 Mich 459; 170 NW 668 (1919), [1] is a case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford had to operate the Ford Motor Company in the interests of its shareholders, rather than in a manner for the benefit of his employees or customers.
That “win-win” rhetoric caused some awkward corporate contortions. Executives and corporate entities made the vaguely pro-environment, pro-diversity pronouncements and promises that their ...
Archer Daniels Midland; BAE Systems, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the US by impairing and impeding its lawful functions, to make false statements about its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance program, and to violate the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
Corporate social responsibility is a trend we can all get behind. Motley Fool contributor John Grgurich owns no shares of any of the companies mentioned in this column.
Enron logo. The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal sparked by American energy company Enron Corporation filing for bankruptcy after news of widespread internal fraud became public in October 2001, which led to the dissolution of its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, previously one of the five largest in the world.
In re American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. Litigation: violations of Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York: Anderson v. Jackson: demolition of public housing damaged by Hurricane Katrina: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: 2009 Burnett v. National Association ...