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David Kozlowski's Case Study Of A Tyco International Company

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1.0 Summary of the Case Study (Buat 2 Pages, min) (QIE) A Tyco International company is one of the international company who had involved in the corporate scandal and corporate excess that finally lead to the fall of the company during the David Kozlowski’s era. Some of the boards of directors of Tyco International found guilty on several wrongdoing like misuse the company’s assets for personal use, stole more than $430 million through fraudulent stock sales, grand larceny, fabricating business record and others. David Kozlowski being appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Tyco International after Fort resigned as CEO due to the disagreement between him and Kozlowski. Due to enthusiasm of Kozlowski in managing the company and able to revived the Kendal Company from bankruptcy and doubled the Tyco earning, board had increased his salary to $2.1 million and give him shares in the company stock. However, during year 1997 his salary increased up to $8 million to $170 million in year 1999. Besides, Kozlowski also had restructured Tyco by picking and placing his trusted individual in some position like Mark Swatz as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Mark Belnick as the general counsel of Tyco and several board of members that already used to the Kozlowski’s management style. Among fraudulent acts that had discovered were Kozlowski not disclosed about the Manhattan office to the public and he had provide it with the extravagance, using Tyco funds to buy and

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