devry mgmt520 week 5 and week 6 discussion

devry mgmt520 week 5 and week 6 discussion

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Restraint of Trade and Antitrust (graded)

Look at problem 25-14 found on page 718 of your eBook. We will begin our discussion this week by working through this "credit card" problem to help us understand "per se" violations and how they affect how antitrust suits are brought and proven. To get started, let's answer the following questions about the problem:

Was Visa's and Mastercard's conduct illegal under the Sherman Act? Under the Clayton Act? Why or why not?

Are exclusive dealing agreements a "per se" violation? (Support your answer.)

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Consumer Protections (graded)

In Week 1, we covered ethics and the role law and politics play with it. As we have discussed this week, the government has attempted to protect consumers against unethical loan practices, collection of debt practices, and product costs will continue to make it more difficult to be profitable.

To start our discussion this week - let's review Case problem 26-17 on page 761 of your eBook. In addition to the question presented by the problem:

1. What responsibilities did Easton and Source One Associates, Inc. have to the individuals and businesses that were the targets of these information requests?

2. What responsibilities did the clients of Easton and Source One Associates, Inc. have to (a) its clients that made the information/inquiry requests and (b) to the individuals and businesses that were the targets of these information requests?

3. Explain the remedies available to the individuals and businesses that were the targets of these inquiries.


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Multinational Companies (graded)

Let's finish up this term with a discussion about moving our personal and business ethics into the international business realm. Let's look at how ethics and laws span the concepts of all of our TCOs to date and discuss them in a realistic perspective, with particular emphasis on the multinational company and the effects of laws in other countries on business in the United States, and vice versa. The TCO topics have been the following:

A: Ethics
B: Governmental regulation
C: Warranties and product liability
D: Contract law
E: Employment law and vicarious liability
F: Intellectual property
G: Antitrust and fair trade activities
H: Corporate activities and the SEC
I: International ethics
Do you see any of our TCOs in a different light now at the end of the term than you did at the beginning of the term? If so, which one(s), and why?

Also, please review Marianne Jennings' article on "Why an International Code of Ethics Would be Good" from Week 1. (The article is posted in Doc Sharing.)

To start this topic, do some web research on a company that interests you and that is publicly traded in some stock exchange in the world. Specifically, try to find one that operates in more than one country. Then, pick two of the above TCOs and explain how the law involving those TCOs would make it harder or easier to operate multinationally. Explain what problems a company would have.



SOX and Insider Trading (graded)

Review problem 24-15, found on page 677 of your eBook. Let's look at corporate malfeasance, both specifically as it is seen in the case of Mr. Bleakney and NMC, and more generally, at companies across the country. It seems as though there is an outbreak of corporate "bad ethics" that is translating into escalating costs for compliance and policing.

Along with the SEC and their policing and efforts at ending bad business practices that relate to the stock market, we also have the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, also known as SARBOX, or SOX, which is becoming a big buzzword in the business world. We will look at that here and in the other topic. As part of that discussion, start thinking about the different ways different officers of the company will look at and use or follow SOX (i.e., the CEO, CIO, and CFO).

To start this discussion, let's look at the conduct of Mr. Bleakney. Was his conduct illegal under the Securities and Exchange Act, and more specifically, Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5? If so, how? If his conduct was not illegal under Section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5, explain why not.

Was his conduct unethical? Why or why not?

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