03784nam a22003017a 4500 PUCPR 20210423181337.0 a||||gr|||| 00| 0 ta 161007e2015 pr |||||sm||| 00| 0 spa d PUCPR español PUCPR PUCPR rda bev 23 T 658.403 D595p CD 23 T 658.403 D595p CD 217613 Diou Roig, Barbara A. A profile of the top executive financial decision makers’ ethical behavior and the 2006-2010 financial crisis : a case study / Bárbara A. Diou Roig. 2015. 1 disco de computadora (x, 173 hojas) : gráficas y tablas ; 3½ pulgadas (12 centímetros) Título de cubierta en hoja añadida en el sobre del disco de computadora. Tesis (Doctorado en Administración de Empresas) -- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico, 2015. Referencias bibliográficas: hojas 161-169. Ethics and morality should be basic human values that everyone embraces, but we also have people who let themselves bend their ethics for greed, ambition, risk to win among other behavioral traits. The financial crisis of 2006-2010 could be considered one of the most important events that this century has seen in terms of a lack of ethical behavior, especially ethics and the decision making of top-level management in investment firms. Managers need to be aware that their decisions not only affect them and their company, but they can have a negative effect on a society as a whole. Cases presented in the current research lead us to conclude how unethical decisions resulted in big financial losses, lay-off of employees, and even distrust from society. There is a just need for an ethical reform as part of a proactive action plan to stop the recurrence of another financial crisis (Thomas, 2011). The research presents a collection of secondary data about the executive management of the different key players in the financial crisis of 2006-2010. The data gathered were limited to the specific active years of the crisis from 2006-2010. In this financial crisis, there were a few firms that rose above others in their impact on the United States economy. Some were bought by others firms, others went bankrupt, and surprisingly the rest survived. A selection of a few key players in the financial crisis of 2006-2010 like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG, Countrywide, and Goldman Sachs was done to create them into case studies to be used as a base for the profile that is the ultimate goal of the dissertation. The profile of the financial decision-makers in the financial crisis in the United States dating from the years of 2006-2010 is composed of powerful Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, and Chief Operating Officers that behaved in an extremely risky way, leading them to believe that the decisions made were flawless. From their perspective, these officers were doing nothing wrong in their decisions. They did what everyone in Wall Street was doing, which is risking everything you have to make double or triple profit compared to the initially investment. The problem was that they were using another people’s money to get to what they wanted which was a big payoff at the end. The current research has a descriptive qualitative design. 294920 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico Dissertations Decision making Moral and ethical aspects Research Puerto Rico 84943 294682 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico. Escuela Graduada de Administración de Empresas ddc 6 23 T 658.403 D595p CD 295942 295942 0 0 ddc 0 0 10 10 71 2021-04-23 Administración de Empresas 0 T 658.403 D595p CD 80000002181033 2021-04-23 00:00:00 2021-04-23 6