...University of Notre Dame Supplement Individuality is an imperative ingredient of success. One mustn't follow the beaten path, but rather pave his own. Like Rev. John I. Jenkins said, in order to make a difference in this world, one has to think for himself and dare to be different. The majority of the advancements and accomplishments that have progressed the world, both technologically and philosophically, have been caused by men and women that were not afraid to be different, not afraid to think and act outside of the norm. If everyone behaves in the same way, the world will remain as it is, lacking the power to continue growing. Thanks to a few individuals who dared to be different from their peers, the world has always been evolving. However, in order to accelerate the rate of progress in today's world, we need more of these individuals. I strive to someday have the essential tools which, combined with my determination to better the world, will enable me to become one of these individuals. Becoming a part of the exceptional community at the University of Notre Dame will bring me substantially closer to that day. My strongest quality that will enable me to augment the community at Notre Dame is my perspective. My ability to see a unique side of every predicament or incident has resulted from my experiences and has helped me solve many dilemmas. I was born in India and lived there for eight years before immigrating to the United States. Half of my life was spent by me learning...
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...RECONSTRUCTING ARGUMENTS Deductive and Inductive Here we are to learn the techniques for PART I, Making a Critique- i.e., argument reconstruction, by doing the following “steps”: 1. Read the discourse; 2. Number and Bracket arguments; 3. Write an Index of Claims; and 4. Tree-Diagram the arguments. What is critiquing? Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1913 – 1999) - the creator of Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956) following a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives; revised in 2001 by Anderson & Ktrathwohl) with collaborators Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl as A Taxonomy for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. This taxonomy consists of six major categories: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. The categories after knowledge (containing subcategories) were presented as "skills and abilities," (manifested by a person’s intellectual abilities as well) with the understanding that knowledge was the necessary precondition for putting these skills and abilities into practice. As revised in 2001, these cognitive skills were rather treated more dynamically by using verbs and gerunds to label their categories and subcategories (rather than the nouns of the original taxonomy as knowledge objectives). These "action words" describe the cognitive processes by which thinkers encounter and work with knowledge. They are (from the lowest thinking skill): Categories &...
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...REPORT [pic] Presented to Dr. Joseph Wakim BAD 433 Notre Dame University Presented by Lina Khadij Nay Harfouche January 9, 2009 Introduction Indevco group was founded in 1972 by George Frem. Likewise, continuing to respond to Lebanon's market needs, Frem founded Sanita in response to the country's emerging consumerism and lack of refuse disposal systems. In this report, we discuss one of Indevco Group’s companies, namely Sanita. We shed the light on Sanita’s role towards the individual, environment and society. Our Vision and Mission statements Vision: To protect the international public interest and to serve the community with the best products and high quality services. Mission: What is good for the community is good for the company. We are committed to delight our customers with the best quality products in geographic dispersed markets using the most advanced technology, and keep recruiting, developing, and motivating our employees. We are concerned for the survival, growth, and profitability of the company through adhering to the ethical and environmental standards. The social spirit of our firm motivates us to keep enriching the lives of our people. Opportunities and Threats: Opportunities: 1. Sanita took advantage of the weak service of international companies in the sector of baby diapers. 2. Conferences & Exhibitions: Sanita sponsors regional United Nations conferences devoted to industrial topics, local exhibitions related...
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...succewThe 7 Keys to Success by Will Edwards For Fay - My Most Excellent Daughter ‘You are a special enterprise on the part of God’ – Mildred Mann This eBook may be given away freely. It may NOT be sold. Copyright © White Dove Books 2006 All Rights Reserved. http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk Contents Your Wake-Up Call ........................................................... 3 Commitment...................................................................... 4 An Open Mind ................................................................... 6 Persistence ....................................................................... 8 Flexibility ......................................................................... 10 Faith ................................................................................ 12 Thankfulness................................................................... 14 Passion ........................................................................... 16 The Rest of Your Life ...................................................... 18 A Message for Our Time ................................................. 19 About the Author ............................................................. 20 About White Dove Books ................................................ 21 _____________________________________________________________________ The 7 Keys to Success Will Edwards Your Wake-Up Call When I was quite young, someone told me, “If you want be really...
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...The 7 Keys to Success by Will Edwards For Fay - My Most Excellent Daughter ‘You are a special enterprise on the part of God’ – Mildred Mann Distribution Rights This eBook may be given away freely. It may NOT be sold. Copyright © White Dove Books 2006 All Rights Reserved. http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk Contents Your Wake-Up Call.................................................................... 3 Commitment ............................................................................... 4 An Open Mind ............................................................................ 6 Persistence .................................................................................. 8 Flexibility.................................................................................. 10 Faith .......................................................................................... 12 Thankfulness............................................................................. 14 Passion ...................................................................................... 16 The Rest of Your Life............................................................... 18 A Message for Our Time .......................................................... 19 About the Author ...................................................................... 20 About White Dove Books......................................................... 22 _____________________________________________________________________ ...
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...simultaneously the claims of modern science and the claims made by religious doctrine. The initial premise that one might think is that these two would more than often contradict each other, however, science exist to explain the natural world, that is, the world around us. Religion tends to explain the purpose and meaning behind the natural world. It is the difference between physical and spiritual realities that each represents and tries to explain. As science focuses on the physical truth, religion examines and focuses on the spiritual truth. Until the modern period, science was not a separate discipline from philosophy. Generally, most scientist were known as natural philosophers, or experimental philosophers. Their primary mission was to gather data about observable phenomena in nature, to categorize that data, and to generalize from specific observations to more general ones...
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...Week 5: Final Film Critique ENG 225: Introduction to Film Instructor Stephanie Miclot 03 Mar 2014 I have chosen the film Armageddon as the final film critique in this course. Armageddon was released to the America in 1998. The film was directed by Michael Bay, and written by J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Hensleigh. While there were a number of high-profile actors in this film, the undoubtedly biggest stars in this film were Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thorton, Ben Affleck, and Liv Tyler. (Imdb, 2008). Armageddon was a movie with a lot of potential, that was poorly written from the start and dismally executed on screen. While I am a fan of quite a few cast members, I was disappointed with this film as a whole. Albeit the storyline certainly lineal, the entire movie was fragmented with action sequences that left the audience wondering just exactly what was going on. “Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you’d have a TV ad.” (Ebert, 2008, para.1). Armageddon seems to have been tossed together in haphazardly fashion by it’s writers, replacing real scientific facts with your typical inaccurate, and dramatized hollywood one-liners fired off by the actors in this film at every turn. An example of the diluted science in this film is in the plot of the story itself. An asteroid the size of the state of Texas is cutting through space on course for a head on collision with Earth, at which point, is certain to destroy our planet, and end life...
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...Policy Research on Access to Quality Basic Education For Muslim Learners The views, statements, and opinions contained in this report are of the author's alone and are not intended as USAID recommendations, conclusions or statements of USAID policy. Table of Contents List of Tables………………………………………………………………. Page i List of Illustrations…………………………………………………………. ii Acknowledgements………………………………………………………… iii Abbreviations and Acronyms ………………………………………...…… iv Glossary …………………………………………………………………… vi Executive Summary .……………………………………………………… vii Chapter 1. Introduction A. B. C. D. E. F. G. Background and Rationale…………………………………….. Objectives of the Study………………………………………… Sample Selection and Data Collection………………………… Research Design……………………………………………….. Data Analysis and Procedure………………………………….. Scope and Limitations of the Study …………………………… Significance of the Study ……………………………………… 1 9 10 11 12 14 14 Chapter 2. Trends in Access Policies from 1987 to 2007 A. National Laws Governing Access to Basic Education………… …………………………………………... B. Non-legislated Policies on Access to Basic Education……………………………………………………… C. Access Policies of the Philippine Department of Education…. D. Implications of Philippine Access Policies to Muslim Learners in Basic Education …………………………….…… 15 23 26 36 Chapter 3. Key Findings on Access Barriers to Quality Basic Education for Muslim Learners A. Access Barriers to Quality Basic...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility Theories: Mapping the Territory Elisabet Garriga, ` ´ Domenec Mele ABSTRACT. The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) field presents not only a landscape of theories but also a proliferation of approaches, which are controversial, complex and unclear. This article tries to clarify the situation, ‘‘mapping the territory’’ by classifying the main CSR theories and related approaches in four groups: (1) instrumental theories, in which the corporation is seen as only an instrument for wealth creation, and its social activities are only a means to achieve economic results; (2) political theories, which concern themselves with the power of corporations in society and a responsible use of this power in the political arena; (3) integrative theories, in which the corporation is focused on the satisfaction of social demands; and (4) ethical theories, based on ethical responsibilities of corporations to society. In practice, each CSR theory presents four dimensions related to Elisabet Garriga is a PhD student in Management at IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain. She holds a degree in Philosophy and another in Economics from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She has taught Business Ethics at the University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, for the International Education of Students (IES), a consortium comprised of more than 120 leading US colleges and universities. Her current research focuses on the concept and implementation of Corporate Social...
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...Key challenges faced by global organisations in implementing corporate CSR policies Prepared for John Toth Prepared by Emma Wimhurst 10 November 2013 Contents Section Page 1 Introduction 3 2 Definition of Corporate Social Responsibility 3 2.1 Carroll’s pyramid of CSR 3 2.2 Theoretical clusters 4 2.2.1 Instrumental theories 4 2.2.2 Integrative/Political theories 4 2.2.3 Ethical Theories 4 3 Implementation of CSR 5 4 The Body Shop: core purpose 5 5 Balancing act 6 6 Heightened awareness 6 7 Cost Implications 7 8 New Look: Stakeholder’s conflict 8 9 Challenges 8 9.1 Increased responsibility 8 9.2 Daily implementation challenges 8 10 Recommendations 9 11 Conclusion 10 12 Appendix one: The Body Shop 12 13 Appendix two: New Look 14 14 Appendix three: Carroll’s Pyramid 17 15 Appendix four: Schwartz and Caroll Venn diagram 18 16 Appendix five: Ethical Trading Initiative 20 17 Bibliography 21-24 1. Introduction This report identifies the key challenges faced by organisations with a global supply chain in implementing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies. The Body Shop (appendix 1) and New Look (appendix 2) are UK based companies, with a global trading presence and both depend on a global supply chain for the purchase of their products. In 2013 both companies remain committed to CSR and ethical trading...
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...Ethics and ethical theories: a road map for teaching ethics in business schools Joan Fontrodona (IESE Business School, Spain), Manuel Guillén (University of Valencia, Spain), and Alfredo Rodríguez-Sedano (University of Navarre, Spain) Introduction A three-dimensional framework to explain ethical theories Ethical approaches of business firms Teaching ethics experiences using this framework Discussion of the teaching experiences Conclusions References 1 2 6 9 10 12 13 Introduction This paper tries to contribute, in some way, to the urgent need recently warned by Benedict XVI: “the university, for its part, must never lose sight of its particular calling to be a "universitas" in which the various disciplines, each in its own way, are seen as part of a greater unum. How urgent is the need to rediscover the unity of knowledge and to counter the tendency to fragmentation and lack of communicability that is all too often the case in our schools!”1 This seems to be a challenge for both, Catholic and non-Catholic universities. The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical framework that helps to conceptualize ethics and to clarify the characteristics and limits of the different ethical theories. In other words, students without philosophical background will find here a synthetic “road map” of ethical approaches. This framework has been previously published in a book in Spain2. In this paper, authors will describe the model and discuss how it has been successfully tested...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Hariri Canadian University (HCU) was established in September 1999 with the College of Business Administration, according to Presidential Decree 1947. HCU was founded by former PM Rafik Hariri and funded by the Hariri Foundation (a nonprofit institution supported by Hariri family to provide charity funds) was established with the vision of offering quality affordable higher education to all Lebanese. Its mission is to foster personal and professional excellence and the development of leadership as expressed in service to others for the common benefit of humanity. In 2009, Hariri Canadian University (HCU) started its MBA program in 2009, with only 7 students enrolled in class. It offered MBA education with one emphasis which is General Management. Although HCU’s MBA merely has a history of 3 years, it has already gained a good reputation. Today in 2012, the registration rates show an increase as the number of students reached 26. MBA applicants are increasing slowly. Two fundamental reasons contribute to this increase. On one hand, MBA is needed in the workplace. More students are choosing MBA due to pressures from their current jobs. On the other hand, the Lebanese culture regards education as a vital tool for progress and social welfare. The achievement MBA is winning wide social acceptance and is said to improve education quality. Although HCU is ranked as the 11th among the top universities in Lebanon, maintaining a good position at the educational...
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...Introduction In May of 2002, Frank Wulfgar will be graduating from Western Carolina University with a Masters degree in English literature. He is interested in continuing his studies in graduate school, earning a Ph.D., and teaching at the college or university level. Given his current schedule—including teaching part time at both WCU and Southwestern Community College, taking two graduate level English Literature courses, preparing for his Masters Comprehensive Exams, and beginning work on his Masters Thesis—Mr. Wulfgar is unable to devote the time due such a weighty matter as career exploration and counseling. Therefore, he has hired Career Academic Consulting Associates (CACA) to undertake research into the best course of action to achieve his career goals. This report accomplishes the following: Establishes Mr. Wulfgar’s criteria and career goals Compiles data on the (including salary information, and benefits information, and job availability) Researches appropriate graduate schools Recommends a course of study and a set of graduate schools to which Mr. Wulfgar should apply in order to achieve his career goals. Career Goals and Career Criteria On November 15, 2001, CACA interviewed Mr. Wulfgar in order to determine his short and long term career goals. CACA felt the following information was particularly important: What field of literary studies does Mr. Wulfgar wish to pursue? In what geographic region (if any) does Mr. Wulfgar...
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...International Journal of Management Reviews (2007) doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2370.2007.00215.x XXXX utilitarian, ORIGINAL XXX International Publishing Management theories IJMR 2007managerial and relational Reviews of corporate social responsibility © Blackwell Journal of Ltd 2007 1460-8545 Oxford, UK ARTICLES Blackwell Publishing Ltd Utilitarian, managerial and relational theories of corporate social responsibility Davide Secchi Concepts and theories of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have been examined and classified by scholars since the mid-1970s. However, owing to the evolving meaning of CSR and the huge number of scholars who have begun to analyze the issue in recent years fresh efforts are needed to understand new developments. Since there is a great heterogeneity of theories and approaches, the task remains a very hard one, mainly because heterogeneity derives from multi-disciplinary diversity. The criterion for selection is to consider the role that theorists confer to the firm. Following this idea, three groups of theories have been discerned: (1) the utilitarian group, in which the corporation is intended as a maximizing ‘black box’ where problems of externalities and social costs emerge; (2) the managerial category, where problems of responsibility are approached from inside the firm (internal perspective); (3) relational theories, or those in which the type of relations between the firm and the environment are at the center of the analysis. The three perspectives...
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...------------------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS PLANNING FOR YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE ------------------------------------------------- HANDS WARMERS FROM JAPAN TO FRANCE June 2014 ACP IBOM Ketsia GOLDSCHMIDT Mai KIYOTAKI Amber (Yu Wei) LIU Mariko SUZUKI Sarah ZINS Table of Contents Executive Summary Company Information Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company that performs headquartered in Osaka. Listing of the shares is a relatively recently in 1999 and (OSE 2 parts), we have listed in the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange today. Kobayashi Pharmaceutical begins hand warmer business that the Group acquired Kiribai chemical in 2001. Kiribai chemical boasts the top share in the domestic market. High marketing power of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical and technological capabilities of Kiribai chemistry are put to good account to create some markets. We are now expanding the sales channels around the world. This section describes about our history, corporate philosophy, and company strengths as well as the form of organization and company objectives. 1. History 2. Management Philosophy This is management philosophy of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Group: Providing people and society with comfort by constantly pursuing new ideas through continuous creativity and innovation. Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Group provide a variety of products in the fields of medicine, air freshener, supplements, and daily commodities...
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