Downfall Of Major Corporations

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Date: 31/03/2006
Re: What led to the downfall of some of the hugest corporations in America and how is it coped with?


CONFIDETIAL
 In this report I will be talking about how businesses choose the road to greed instead
 
of choosing the ethical road.  Some of the largest companies in the world fell to this type of


thinking, naming some such as Worldcom and Enron. But as stated in the article "business


ethics at work", There are huge ethical dilemmas plaguing the world today because it is very


hard to mix ethics and profits because the main focus of many businesses are to make a


profit for themselves and their shareholders. Also in "business Ethics at work", Around 70


percent of the managers and human resource experts surveyed around the world cited that


pressure is the primary factor in ethical breaches. Reason 2 is to further ones career and the


3rd is the desire to protect ones livelihood. So a lot plays into how some business choose the


low road, especially when Any time there is pressure to provide more than either a person is


capable of or more than a person is willing to do, there is a tendency to take shortcuts. We


will explore more into that phrase later.


 Well, one of the most talked about and frowned about corporations of our time is


Enron(wall street a history from its beginnings to the fall of Enron). Enron was originally a


Houston based natural gas producing company. It expanded into the electrical utilities


market with the acquisition o ...

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