Weekly Article

It's Monday...and you know what that means.  Find yourself an article relating to business, read it, understand it and evaluate it in writing as your next blog post  Be sure to include the link to the article along with one relevant picture.

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

This week's writing assignment is to explain in detail the Enron crisis.  Include in your explanation who the important characters were, what they did, how it was discovered, what the economic result was and what has happened to the main characters as well as the innocent employees and shareholders?
Please include links to your information sources and two pictures that relate to the subject. 
Finally, include your own comments about how this story relates to our study of ethics in business.

Want to own an NFL team? $250 per share...but what do you get?

There is only one NFL team which is publicly traded and they are about to make more shares available.  The Green Bay Packers - one of the most popular professional athletic teams in the U.S. in any sport - have announced that shares of ownership in the team will again be offered to the public, for the first time in over a decade.  Why are they doing this?  What are the benefits?  Is there a downside to raising millions of dollars in this way?  Follow the link to find out.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/09/news/companies/packers_stock/index.htm?iid=A_BN_News

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

After discussing some of the concerns that businesses must consider when deciding their level of corporate social responsibility, your task is to investigate and determine who makes up the godd, the bad and the ugly.  Using internet research, find information (either in the news or from a company's website) that exemplifies one company from each category.  Good = company is performing well and making an effort to be socially responsible.  Bad = company is known for it's mistakes and has the concern of tarnishing it's reputation.  Ugly = company is a disgrace to ethics and has become the "poster child" for social irresponsibility.

Allow one paragraph per example to explain who the company is, what they have done and how it has affected the business.  As always, link the source of your information and include one picture per example.