English Writing 1101 Research Essay Citations

Andrew McTigue

Professor Young

English Writing 1101

17 November 2016

Anderson, William. “Facts, Fiction, and the Fourth Estate: The ‘Washington Post’ and ‘Jimmy's World.”’ The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 63, No. 5, Nov. 2004, pp. 965-986.

Within hours of news of the deaths of at least seven Americans due to Tylenol painkiller consumption in 1982, Tylenol manufacturer Johnson and Johnson ordered a total recall of all its products from supermarkets. As a result, the manufacturer was able to rebound its reputation as one of the most respectable corporations in the United States.

 

Li, Yuhao. “The Case Analysis of the Scandal of Enron.” International Journal of Business and Management, Vol. 5, No. 10, Oct. 2010, pp. 37-41.

Enron is one of the most infamous examples of the company that faced the humiliating irony of destroying its reputation by trying to keep one that is strong.  The senior executives of the corporation participated in accounting fraud as a way “to protect their reputations and their compensation as the most successful executives in the U.S.” The gamble, however, proved catastrophic, as executives became forced to file for the largest bankruptcy any American had seen at that time.

Smith, Randall. “Wall Street Mystery Features a Big Board Rival.” The Wall Street Journal, 16 December 1992. Web.

 “Mr. Madoff is one of the masters of the off-exchange "third market" and the bane of the New York Stock Exchange. He has built a highly profitable securities firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, which siphons a huge volume of stock trades away from the Big Board.”

“Mr. Madoff's firm can execute trades so quickly and cheaply that it actually pays other brokerage firms a penny a share to execute their customers' orders, profiting from the spread between bid and asked prices that most stocks trade for.”

Twenty years later, reports of a Ponzi scheme left the Madoff name to become synonymous with narcissism, corruption and evil, especially in the world of business. One decision in his career caused devastation to the reputation of his family and his field.