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• Title:Business efficiency and ethics : values and strategic decision making / Dimitris N. Chorafas.
  
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• Author/Creator:Chorafas, Dimitris N., author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  

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  • Location:DAVID LAM LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HF5387 .C485 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Business ethics.
  Organizational effectiveness.
  Corporations--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xv, 294 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781137484246 hardcover
  1137484241 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Ethical Values, Efficiency, and Effectiveness
  1. Arete: Virtue Is the Foundation of Ethics
  2. Character Is the Main Asset of Trustworthy People
  3. Efficiency and Effectiveness
  4. Barclays Stars Scam
  5. "Say-on-Pay"
  6. Obama's "Fat-Cat Bankers" and Clawbacks
  2. Senior Managers Are in the Frontline of Efficiency and Ethics
  1. Accountability of Senior Managers
  2. Personality Traits Characteristic of Sound Management
  3. High-Quality People
  4. Poor Governance
  5. Tools of CEO Malpractices
  6. Spoilage: False Efforts in Cost Control and in Productivity
  7. Virtue over Pay
  8. Firing an Inefficient CEO
  3. Social Ethics and Rising Corruption
  1. Social Ethics
  2. La Forza del Destino
  3. Rising Corruption
  4. Scams in the Boardroom
  5. Stew of Sorrows and Deceits
  6. Greatest Scam of Them All: Turning a Blind Eye to Unintended Consequences
  4. Ethics and Efficiency in Public Administration
  1. Lack of Ethics and Inefficiency in Absurdistan
  2. From Absurdistan with Love: The Unaffordable Care Act
  3. NATO's Absurdistan: A Fake Mullah Omar Feasted in Kabul
  4. North-South Divide Has Become a Global Hallmark
  5. Bubbles Are the Ticket to Economic Disaster
  5. Be Ready for the "Unthinkable"
  1. Thinking of the Unthinkable and Its Aftereffect
  2. Debt Forgiveness in the Ancient World
  3. West's Crisis in Finance, Banking, and Business Confidence
  4. Competences and Incompetences of the Welfare State
  5. Beware of Public Pronouncements about Controlling Deficits, Paying Entitlements, and Saving the Banks
  6. Can the European Central Bank Battle the Deflation Dragon?
  7. Thinking of the Unthinkable before Adversity Hits
  6. Ethics and Efficiency in the Financial Industry
  1. Ivar Kreuger and the Industrialization of Leverage
  2. What the Public Should Know about Banking and Bankers
  3. Demonology and Highly Risky "Assets"
  4. Wachovia Falls on Its Sword
  5. Investor Activism and Creative Accounting
  6. From Model Risk to Insider Trading
  7. Libor Scandal, Derivatives, Gold Deceits, and the ETFs
  1. London Interbank Offered Rate
  2. Were Regulators Part of the Deception?
  3. In Search of Ethics and Efficiency
  4. Risk Appetite, Derivatives, and Bank-to-Bank Exposure
  5. Bre-X and Other Gold Scams
  6. Exchange-Traded Funds
  8. Strategy of Financial Gambling
  1. MF Global
  2. Dexia Group
  3. Risks Associated with Securitized Portfolios
  4. Standard Chartered and the Iranian Deal
  5. Prudential Securities Scandal
  6. Class Action on Securities Lending
  9. Barings: The Crashing of a Venerable Bank
  1. Early History
  2. Elixir to Permanent "Risk-Free" Profits
  3. Responsibilities of Barings and of Regulatory Supervision
  4. Star Traders and Risky Dealing
  5. Account 88888, Double Books, and Trojan Horses
  6. Barings Singapore and SIMEX
  7. Barings' Acquisition by ING
  10. Parmalat: The Hedge Fund with Dairy Products on the Side
  1. Parmalat Scandal Hit Small Investors Hard
  2. Leveraging and the Disappearance of Public Funds
  3. Banks of Parmalat
  4. Name of the Game Is Deceit
  5. Parmalat as a Hedge Fund
  6. Restructuring Effort Befalling the Administrator
  11. Ethics and Efficiency in Manufacturing and Services
  1. Kodak's Lesson
  2. BlackBerry Puts Itself Up for Sale
  3. Has Hewlett-Packard Made a False Step?
  4. Carmakers and Their Overcapacity
  5. Bankruptcy of Detroit
  6. Crisis of European Flag Carriers
  12. Ethics, Opportunities, and Risks with Information Technology
  1. Software Challenges
  2. Big Data
  3. Metadata and Descriptive Analytics
  4. Cloud Computing
  5. OnDemand and OnPremises
  6. IT Security
  7. Hackers Have a Field Day
  8. Security Issues Associated with Cloud Computing.