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  Case 29: Infomatec (Germany, 2000)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …. Share- holders that had acquired Infomatec shares after the release of the incorrect publica- tion sued Infomatec as well as the company’s management team… …shareholders. The disclosures have a particular importance for both groups, since at the time of the notification only management has the details of this… …management team, not all of them were successful. However, in its famous “Infomatec decisions”, the German Federal Supreme Court (BGH) ruled in 2004… …for the first time that members of the management board of a public corporation can be held personally liable to shareholders for intentionally issuing… …investigation, and in October 2000 a search order was issued for the offices of Infomatec and the pri- vate homes of the management team. The managing banks…

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  Case 30: Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products (Belgium, 2000)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …, commissioned by L&H’s new management and carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers, found, e.g., that 70% of the USD 160 million in sales booked by the Korean unit… …recalled: “The bottom line was that the technology wasn’t ready and the market wasn’t ready, but management had to deliver every quarter.” However, during…
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  Case 31: Bankgesellschaft Berlin (Germany, 2001)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …estate funds, the debts of BGB assumed ever greater proportions. In late 2000, BGB management tried to conceal the looming bankruptcy by the fictitious… …all, top management at BGB didn’t have a complete picture of what was going on at Berlin Hyp, the mortgage-lending subsidiary. As a consequence… …, management was not able to uncover the full extent of the bank’s risk exposure or to push through the necessary changes. In November 2001, the BGB board… …BGB’s risk management was insufficient and that its risk provisions had to be revised upwards. But he had sounded the alarm in vain. BGB asked him to… …learned from the BGB debacle was that politicians and bank risk management don’t mix well. The new BGB chairman, Hans-Joerg Vetter, put forward a plan… …. Vetter also announced that the bank would cut 4,000 jobs, or a quarter of its pre-crisis headcount. By late 2002, BGB’s new management began to implement…

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  Case 32: Comroad (Germany, 2002)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …criminal judgment, German investors have not been very successful in their civil damages claims against Schnabel and the other members of the management…
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  Case 33: Vivendi Universal (France, 2002)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …was only after the board dislodged Messier that the new management disclosed the company’s dire financial straits. The new CEO, Jean-René Fourtou…
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  Case 34: Royal Ahold (The Netherlands, 2003)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …, Ahold’s management team raised huge amounts of debt and equity capital over the years. With regard to the foreign operating units, Ahold’s top… …exactly where the company ran afoul. Senior management pres- sured lower-level managers throughout Ahold’s worldwide network to reach the sales and… …figures shocked Ahold’s new management as much as it did analysts and investors. The company immediately authorized an investigation by law firm White &… …. Ahold, under new management, was quite successful on its way to recovery from the scandal. It promptly took remedial actions which included revising its… …internal task force to ensure that every one of its subsidiaries is in compliance. A whole new management team was brought in from outside to run the… …, most important, the right to give management the boot with a majority of voices. “We learned that as a company you can lose your reputa- tion overnight… …compensation: the necessity of strict internal, financial and accounting controls across the organization. Ahold’s new management said the company’s “go-go… …Governance Institute: Royal Ahold: A Failure of Corporate Governance, ECGI Working Paper No. 67/2005, www.papers.ssrn.com India Center for Management…

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  Case 35: Parmalat (Italy, 2003)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …, Tanzi did not bring much-needed high-level expertise into his management ranks by recruiting senior executives from other big global firms. Instead… …Italian banks. The management of the company went over to Enrico Bondi, a turn- around specialist well known in Italy. Bondi had been appointed as a… …aware of the true state of Parmalat’s finances.” Nevertheless, Parmalat’s new management, led by Enrico Bondi, has been suing Italian and international… …into large global conglomerates while maintaining family-style management. However, Parmalat’s business model and financing strategies – rapid… …acquisitions, moves into risky markets, the financing of expansion through borrowing, and the management of debt through opaque special purpose entities in… …European Companies 214 References: India Center for Management Research: Parmalat – The Fall of a Dairy Giant, Finance…

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  Case 37: Siemens (Germany, 2006)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …small central management enthroned above them was mainly responsible for company-wide issues. The division heads learned to value this new-found free-… …conceal the identities of the officials who authorized such payments. At the same time, Siemens central management tight- ened its anti-corruption… …railway lines. In a separate investigation, a member of Siemens’s central management, Johannes Feldmayer, was arrested by prosecutors on charges…

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  Case 38: Daewoo Group (South Korea, 1999)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …he once said. However, Kim’s global expansion far outstripped the group’s financial and management capabilities. But he ignored warnings that he was… …. But he excoriated Kim for trying to justify his wrongdoings by describing them as management decisions and as part of a widespread practice at the time…
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  Case 39: Seibu Railway (Japan, 2004)

  Prof. Dr. Klaus Henselmann, Dr. Stefan Hofmann

  …(“Corporate responsibility for financial reports”) and 404 (“Management assessment of internal controls”). “The new guideline is a departure from the…