ecurities brokerage firm Charles Schwab filed suit against a former employee who left the company and started his own wealth management firm. Charles Schwab claimed that the names of its clients, along with information regarding their accounts and assets, were trade secrets. The employee therefore misappropriated these trade secrets when he contacted the clients to ask them to transfer their accounts to his new firm. Charles Schwab argued that the employee could not have learned of these individuals but for his work at the Charles Schwab brokerage. Do you think this customer information will be treated as a trade secret

Consider the following ethical argument. which of the three statements represents the moral statement about a moral principle? statement 1: a dealership advertised a car at a very low price, but only had a similar higher priced model in stock. statement 2: it is wrong to perform a bait and switch. statement 3: the dealership was wrong to advertise the car on special sale when in actually it was not available.

Christopher kim, cfa, is a banker with batts brothers, an investment banking firm. kim follows the energy industry and has frequent contact with industry executives. kim is contacted by the ceo of a large oil and gas corporation who wants batts brothers to underwrite a secondary offering of the company's stock. the ceo offers kim the opportunity to fly on his private jet to his ranch in texas for an exotic game hunting expedition if kim's firm can complete the underwriting within 90 days. according to cfa institute standards of conduct, kim: a) may accept the offer as long as he discloses the offer to batts brothers.b) may not accept the offer because it is considered lavish entertainment.c) must obtain written consent from batts brothers before accepting the offer.

In terms of the "great wheel of science", statistics are central to the research process (a) only between the hypothesis phase and the observation phase (b) only between the observation phase and the empirical generalization phase (c) only between the theory phase and the hypothesis phase (d) only between the empirical generalization phase and the theory phase