Freddie Mac Scandal (Fannie Mae) Scandals come in many different forms in this world. You can have the largest of scandals that include Enron tying to financial aspects, to little scandals of a cheating spouse. The Freddie Mac Scandal was large enough to make the headlines because it dealt with the mortgage housing in the whole entire US history. Anyone from the late 1990’s to the early 2000’s that owned a house can remember the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac names, both for good reasons and bad
Initially, the company was favorably labeled a “financial behemoth” under Raines’ direction and goal to “issue bank loans to individuals with low to moderate income.” However, the term “financial behemoth” soon gained a new meaning for Fannie Mae. One of the company’s accountants, Roger Barnes, was one of the main whistleblowers to provide evidence that financial information was “being manipulated to meet earnings targets.” Barnes was strongly discouraged from pursuing the issue, but it
A great dilemma that CEOs and entrepreneurs face when managing a middling company is: how do I rise above the state of mediocrity and follow the paradigm of becoming an incredible company? Jim Collins book, Good to Great, offers the answer to that. Good to Great, written by Jim Collins and his research team at Stanford University, offers a comprehensive guide to how companies went from being above average to exceptional in their given field. Through extensive research; using market and company data