In regard to this delayed notification, Mattel had actually been fined twice for what was described as withholding information regarding problems that “created an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death”. This has resulted in the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s investigating Mattel’s reporting practices. Eckert has responded by stating that Mattel discloses problems on its own timetable due to a belief that the regulatory requirements are “unreasonable”. Additionally, Mattel noted that the lead paint recall was caused by the vendors, who did not follow the requirements as specified by the
After selling their lies and plans for the war to the America people, congress had given President Bush carte blanche to bring justice to those who caused pain and destruction on American soil. Abu Ghraib Prison, also known as Baghdad Central Prison, became the U.S Army detention center for captured Iraqis. “For decades under Saddam Hussein, many prisoners who were taken to the Abu Ghraib prison never came out. It was the centerpiece of Saddam's empire of fear, and those prisoners who did make it out told nightmarish tales of torture beyond imagining – and executions without reason.” (Abuse of Iraqi POWS by GIs Probed, 2004) In 2004 rumors began to surface, regarding the abuse of prisoners held by the U.S army. Initially the U.S media expressed little interest to the accusations, until photographic evidence emerged, exposing the violation of the prisoner’s human rights.
He says that he endured years of torture in an Iranian prison, after his picture appeared on the cover of the “Economist” magazine. He just escaped from Iran last year, and told in a 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper he recounted what he had to go through to escape and survive. Ahmad Batebi never intended to be famous. He wanted to be a photo journalist, but it was a picture of him that changed his life and almost got him killed. In July 1999, a demonstration rocked Tehran.
The novel The Wave by Morton Rhue follows the story of a history class in Palo Alto, California during 1969, conducting a classroom experiment which goes terribly wrong. The novel illustrates the detrimental effects peer pressure can have on the group, and makes us question any type of group coercion. The Wave experiment was both a success and a failure; the novel demonstrates the power of authority and the damage it can cause. The Wave follows a factual story of a history teacher named Ben Ross and his year ten students. They embark upon a seemingly innocent classroom experiment, which develops into a problem somewhat like that in Nazi Germany.
Dell’s Delusive Marketing Activities a) Deceptive Promotion On May 15, 2007 Dell was being sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for deceptive business and advertising practices. According to State A.G. (attorney general), Dell was practicing the "classic bait-and-switch scheme", offering “no-interest” for payment plans (Ogg, 2007). When customers tried to take on such offers they were denied and offered financing rates of over 20 percent. According to Business First (2008), Dell was brought to court in 2007 due to engagement “in repeated misleading, deceptive and unlawful business conduct, including false and deceptive advertising of financing promotions and the terms of warranties, fraudulent, misleading and deceptive practices in credit financing and failure to provide warranty service and rebates." Dell is has been charged for deceptive marketing practices, especially with deceptive promotion or ‘bait and switch’ scheme (Armstrong & Kotler, 2009).
However, the traders were fired once it was revealed that Enron's reserves were gambled away which nearly destroyed the company. After these facts were brought to light, Ken Lay denies having any knowledge of wrongdoing. Needless to say, when required to testify before the U.S. Congress on the reasons for Enron’s collapse, Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling and Andrew Fastow, sought refuge under the Fifth Amendment. Andrew Fastow, Jeffrey Skilling, and Kenneth Lay are among the most notable top-level executives implicated in the collapse of Enron’s. Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of Enron was prosecuted on 11 criminal counts of making misleading statements and fraud.
Being taken away from one’s home indefinitely causes enough emotional distress. However, once being physically violated by strangers and having one’s skin removed to be sold in yet another black market is put into the mix the agony is unimaginable. Karla Jacinto, a human trafficking survivor, explained her personal experience of being trafficked to CNN reporter Rafael Romo. She tells him, her voice filled with emotion, that she had been raped an estimated 43,200 times between the ages of twelve and sixteen because she was sold into prostitution
Deanna Earle MGMT 1125 George Erwin September 6, 2012 Case Study 5: The HP Pretexting Predicament 1. What are the ethical issues in this case? In this case their wee a ethical issues that had to do with the corporation and the individuals involves with it. Board member were untrusting and also used work phones and emails to leak information to the public. George Keyworth was not a ethical person because he leaked confidential information and also let a investigation be opened, instead of being honest.
What was even worse was that he tried to cover it up by first claiming innocence. Scott blamed the erroneous resume on the executive search firm. From there, Wall Street Journal Article Yahoo CEO’s Downfall states, “Ultimately, Mr. Thompson’s comments, some
Years later, DET tried to improve the filtering of websites by putting down categories and marking websites by how they should be banned. Some of these topics include newsgroups, entertainment, blogs/personal information, education and uncategorised. That’s right, education and uncategorised. A website called Andrew tech help was blocked and their justification was that it was uncategorised. And trailing behind of that was an article on Wikipedia about bug type classifications that is blocked in the category of education.