Category Archives: Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance: Role of independent directors
In today's time the independent directors play an important role in the company but whether these independent directors can play an effective role has, however, always been a matter for dispute. This case study reveals that the legal framework and share [...]
Filed under Corporate Governance, Free Cases
Corporate Governance: a theoretical approach
This paper pretends to do a theoretical approach of Corporate Governance, having as support some case studies about companies like Coca-Cola, Nokia, Microsoft, and Amazon.com.
The methodology adopted for this work is based in information from these companies available in their [...]
Filed under Corporate Governance
Employee Ownership and Corporate Governance in Post-Privatization Russia
This paper brings into focus the impact of employee buyouts on corporate governance in transition ten years after the large-scale privatization took place in Russia. The analysis shows that although privatization employee buyouts have helped to reduce unemployment and prevent [...]
Filed under Concepts, Corporate Governance, White Papers
Corporate Social Responsibility: Amway Experience!
Amway is one of the world’s largest direct sales organisations with over 3 million Independent Business Owners (IBOs) in over 80 markets and territories worldwide. It is a family-owned business with a strong emphasis on family values. Its IBOs are [...]
ICT and e-Governance for Rural Development
Rural e-Governance applications in the recent past have demonstrated the important role the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play in the realm of rural development. Several e-Governance projects have attempted to improve the reach, enhance the base, minimize the processing [...]
Filed under Corporate Governance, White Papers
WorldCom: from Benchmark to Bankruptcy
Verizon Communications acquired MCI/WorldCom and SBC Communications acquired AT&T Corporation, which had been in business since the 19th Century. The acquisition of MCI/WorldCom was the direct result of the behavior of WorldCom's senior managers as documented above. While it can [...]
Case study: How PwC used IT to untangle Lehman Brothers collapse
The failure of Lehman Brothers a year ago highlighted the scale of the financial meltdown and global recession. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) took over as the UK administrator for Lehman Brothers. The firm is responsible for separating the investment bank's UK operations [...]
Filed under Business Ethics, Corporate Governance, Finance
The Collapse of a Mammoth: Lehman Brothers
On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. With $639 billion in assets and $619 billion in debt, Lehman's bankruptcy filing was the largest in history, as its assets far surpassed those of previous bankrupt giants such as WorldCom [...]
Filed under Corporate Governance, Crisis Management, Finance
Enron Case Study: Need for Corporate Governance
Enron brings to mind the collapse of the seventh largest company in the United States of America and the largest bankruptcy seen by the country till date. Its stock was valued at $90 per share in 2001 and is worth [...]
Filed under Business Ethics, Corporate Governance
Corporate Governance Case Study
This report was prepared by Christopher S. Bender of Professional Education Ventures, LLC for the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
In late 1996, despite several years of progressive reforms intended to facilitate the country’s transition to a market economy, most enterprises within the Kyrgyz [...]
Filed under Corporate Governance