How the Pilgrims Financed the Mayflower

Please note that if you edit your initial response (Original Post), you will not get  credit for the Original Post. The discussions are set up as “Must post first”.

You are expected to make your own contribution in a main topic as well as respond with value added comments to at least two of your classmates as well as to your instructor.

Please also note that your answers should be written in your own words. Don’t use quotes from the Internet, articles, or textbooks.

For this week discussion you will be using the case How the Pilgrims Financed the Mayflower

In your initial response you should answer all 5 questions: ….

Discussion Questions:

Discuss the characteristics of the Pilgrims’ relationship with their investors that made it ripe for moral hazard.

Which of the investors’ actions could have been attempts to reduce moral hazard?

Explain how the investors’ choice to acquire equity rather than debt in the Pilgrims’ venture might have been a solution to moral hazard.

Do investors today face the possibility of moral hazard to the same degree as the Pilgrims’ investors did? Why or why not?

Reflection – the students also should include a paragraph in the initial response in their own words reflecting on specifically what they learned from the assignment and how they think they could apply what they learned in the workplace.

You are expected to make your own contribution in a main topic as well as respond with value added comments to at least two of your classmates as well as to your instructor.

In your responses to other students, please look through the responses of your classmates and find a response with an opinion that is opposite to your opinion. Respond to that posting with an additional argument that has supporting reasoning.