Chief legal officer

Operation: Strategic Growth Mark Weisberger, Chief Legal Officer of Aspen Dental, draws upon over 2 decade’s worth of experience in providing in-house counsel to rapidly expanding organizations. Today, he works strategically to improve Aspen Dental’s growth while maintaining legal compliance within the multi-state organization. Growth is a sign of a healthy business by anyone’s standard. Aspen Dental, a manager of dental services, supporting offices in 33 states, has enjoyed an impressive amount of growth with the last few years. Clocking in 3.4 million patient visits with 750,000 new patients added in 2014, Aspen Dental shows no signs of slowing down. With the success of their growing operation, the organization realized they needed a tactical leader for their in-house legal counsel with extensive knowledge in operation expansion. Joining Aspen Dental in 2012, Mark Weisberger made it his personal mission to further growth within the company. “My primary goal was 60-70 offices each year,” explained Weisberger. Considering that Aspen Dental was opening approximately 30-40…

The fiduciary duties are legal notions that construct the foundation of a CEO's lawful connection with their organization's administrator. According to Moriarty "CEOs fiduciaries are for anyone who stands to lose when CEOs accept excessive compensation. This includes shareholders, stakeholders, and certain other parties." Fiduciary duties can also be fractured down into three clear responsibilities including the duty of loyalty, the duty of disclosure and the duty of care. All of which needs to…

steps to ensure that its representatives comply with the NCCP Act (s47(1)(e)), maintain the competence to engage in the credit activities authorised by its licence (s47(1)(f)), and ensure that its representatives are adequately trained and are competent to engage in the credit activities authorised by its licence (s47(1)(g)). Zagga Market is committed to ensure that it complies with these ongoing obligations. Specifically, this Training and Fit & Proper Person Policy seeks to document in respect…

1. Personal ethical perspectives: 1.1. One of the most important fraud case in USA was The Enron case because of his criminal activity which involved a big part of USA. Let me give a short introduce about it, “In 1974, Kenneth Lay joined the Florida Gas Company, eventually serving as president of its successor company, Continental Resources Company. In 1981, he left Continental to join Transco Energy Company in Houston, Texas. Three years later, Lay joined Houston Natural Gas Co. as chairman…

to transcend in math at age eleven. It was at this age where I began to rationally think about my career options in this field. At the time, and even today still, I was intrigued by fashion. Anything from the runways to the textiles and designs, I wondered and questioned how designers could be so outgoing and creative. As I got older my computation skills only enhanced, but I took up sketching and painting as a calming hobby. It was not until freshman year of high school that I came to the…

water. However, in third world countries, the bottling company’s antics have devastated the availability of affordable drinking water for low income families. The documentary “Bottled Life” covers the effects of Nestlé in these countries. Essentially, in countries where there is no clean tap water, bottled water is the only option. However, citizens in the lower class often go thirsty because they cannot afford the cost of Nestlé’s bottled water. Unfortunately, Nestlé neglects to give assistance…

was recognized as one of Business Week 's "100 Hot Growth Companies." As reported by The Wall Street Journal 's Shareholder Scorecard in 2006, Panera Bread was named as the top performer in the restaurant category for one-, five- and ten-year returns to shareholders.(Panera.com, web.) In 2007, Panera Bread purchased a majority stake in Paradise Bakery & Café, a Phoenix-based concept with over 70 locations in 10 states (predominantly in the west and southwest). The Company purchased the balance…

Executive compensation has attracted wide attention from both theoretical and empirical researchers in the past two decades. Berle and Means (1932) first introduced the idea of chief executive officer (CEO) pay as a mechanism to align the interests of management with those of shareholders. A key issue of modern corporate governance is how to design compensation packages that give appropriate incentives to CEOs to maximise firm performance. To design an appropriate compensation package, the usual…

The top management consists of a CEO (Chief Executive Officer) and a CFO (Chief Financial Officer). Under them is the Middle Management these are division and departmental heads in charge of specific departments. Under them are the front line supervisors who are the first line of supervision to the rank and file workers. The structure is built on the Organizational Theory which states that only so many people can be supervised by one individual this is known at “Span of Control.” Hospitals…

John Mackey, cofounder and co-chief executive officer of Whole Foods Market, and Thurman John Rodgers, founder and chief executive officer of Cypress Semiconductor, both successful businessmen, but have very different views on their responsibility to their stakeholders. John Mackey believes in the importance of customer-centered business, while T.J. Rodgers believes that John Mackey’s views are altruistic and only to boost public relations. Though both plans have made their businesses successful…