Research

Project

You must undertake a research

project into an area of corporat

e governance. The

premise for the pape r should be "Corporate Governance Lessons

learned from [a specific corporate governance disaster or episode]." Select

a factual episode

or

disaster involving a rea l company and it s corporate governance issue s within tthe past 15 years. Imagine tha t you have recentl

y accepted a board position at thi s company.

Your fell ow board members, anxious for you r new perspective on th e company's

history, have asked you to write the m a letter. The lette r should provide a brief

sourced (in FNs) historical and contextual review of the episode, and then detailed

analysis, drawing upon course materials addressing ethic s and laws of corporate

governance. PossibleFormat for the paper will be a 7-to10-page

single-spaced letter

(spaces between

paragraphs).

This

"Letter

to Fello w Board Members" is