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Jerry Sandusky: The Internal Stakeholders Of Penn State

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The internal stakeholders at Penn State were the students and the football players the football staff and the board members of Penn State. The way the internal stakeholders were affected is that some people lost their jobs. The football players by having wins taken away and losing bowl games. Some players looked up to the coach as a hero and he was telling them he did not know about it. The football player found out that Joe Paterno had known the whole time that the sexual abuse was happening. Some students lost faith.

The external stakeholders that were affected the most were the young boys and their families. Their lives will never be the same. Everyday boys and their families have to live with the sexual abuse that Jerry Sandusky
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