Essays on Corporate Executives

Summary/Analysis

INTRODUCTION Main idea: Frequent ethical lapses by corporate executives require university administrators and business school faculty members to evaluate study curricula regarding ethics

Specific Section: Ethical Egoism

Thesis statement: Despite the reinterpretation of ethical egoism, as long as it is based solely on self-interest, ethical teachings will be rendered useless.

SUMMARY

Business schools teach students to think critically and equip them with tools to be financially successful and become better contributors to the society. However, recent events in the corporate sectors have seen frequent lapses in ethical behavior. Maybe an evaluation is due regarding the ethics in the curriculums of business schools. Integrating ethical ...

Introduction

Good governance and capital structure play a crucial role in the maximization of corporate profitability, either through an increase in profit margin or a reduction in capital cost or both (Uwuigbe, 2014), and in effect shareholders’ wealth. Companies who are aware of these factors in their objectives of profit maximization eagerly put their good governance principles into corporate codes, which act as valuable reference points in their governance decisions. As such, sound corporate governance engenders investor confidence in terms of capital preservation and acceptable returns of investments (Okiro, Aduda, & Omoro, 2015; Agyei & Owusu, 2014; Heng, Azrbaijani, & San, 2012). With ...

When most people imagine a “corporate executive,” they picture a conservative man or woman in a nice suit making sensible decisions. However, corporate executives do not always answer these pictures. In 2001, Barak Goodman, Rachel Dretzin, and FRONTLINE correspondent Douglas Rushkoff filmed the documentary “Merchants of Cool.” The aim of this paper is to analyze how “cool” corporate executives look like and how they influence the world we live in. Every business has its target audience, and it is not only adults but also teenagers. In the United States, teenagers constitute a significant part of the user market. Every ...