Posted by Charles Matta. UPS (or United Parcel Service) is known worldwide as the world’s largest package delivery company and provider of supply chain management solutions. There is no questioning the success that this company has had, but is there a question of their morality? Recently, UPS was supposed to be looking for clues and observing …
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Super Storm Sandy and Fraud
Posted by Gregory Scavelli. Super storm Sandy had a devastating impact on the North-Eastern portion of the United States, areas like Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut got trashed because of the regions un-preparedness in cases of the storm. To bring in a personal connection, the area that I am from on Long Island got it …
Pharma May Be Moving Out of UK
Posted by Cody Wimmer. Recently AstraZeneca made a statement warning Britain that pharmaceutical companies may be moving out and away from Britain due to their low-funding and exit of the European Union. In Britain, funding for clinical drugs goes through the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), “which is based on how cost-effective …
Phone Makers Could Cut Off Drivers. So Why Don’t They?
Posted by Katherine Harris. This article brings up the question whether or not a company has liability in how or when the customer uses their product. In this case, Ashley Kubiak was driving her Dodge Ram truck, as she checked her iPhone for text messages. Kubiak then crashed her truck into another vehicle killing two people …
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Ex-Executive at NY Bank Gets 4 years in Prison in $38M Fraud
Posted by Johanna Ortiz. An ex-executive Andrew Caspersen at New York investment bank was declared guilty to securities and wire fraud. He admitted defrauding investors of more than $38 million, and the judge gave him four years in prison because the defendant’s attorney asked him for leniency for gambling addiction. Caspersen was a good worker. He …
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Posted by Joseph Locorriere. The fundamentals of business, something that America has practiced for decades and which was proven to be the correct way of managing a business, include running an ethical business, such as taking proper care and recognition of employees and customers as well as the surrounding environment. However, as America continues to …
Injury on Weight Bench Results in Lawsuit Ruling for Club
Posted by Fadi Huzien. This article “Injury on Weight Bench Results in Lawsuit But Ruling for Club,” discusses a lawsuit, which was filed by a fitness facility member at the gym center where he routinely exercised. The plaintiff, La Fata, filed a lawsuit towards the center, LA Fitness International, because he claimed that his injury …
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Italy, US Joint “Operation Columbus” Brings Down Drug Ring Run Out of a Pizzeria
In class, we discuss organized crime and its effects on business and society. Recently, Italian special agents, SCO, and the FBI arrested 13 persons in Calabria, Italy, allegedly connected with the ‘Ndrangheta crime family. With affiliates in the U.S., the suspects were organizing cocaine shipments out of Costa Rica. Authorities arrested them in the middle of the night while they were sleeping and charged …
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The Fourth Amendment Requires the Police to Act Reasonably Not Perfectly
In Heien v. North Carolina, the Supreme Court held that where a police officer makes a stop based upon a reasonable mistake about a law, the stop is justified. In this case, an officer stopped a vehicle because one of its two brake lights was out, based on a misunderstanding that the North Carolina law …
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Tesla’s Hardship’s in It’s Rise to Autonomy
Posted by Timothy O’Shea. Tesla Motors, an automotive company in the Automotive Energy Storage industry, “who’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.”(tesla.com) It “was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Silicon Valley who wanted to prove that electric cars could be better than gasoline-powered cars”(tesla.com). As of now, …
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