...The Stanford Prison Experiment was unethical for a number of reasons. According to McLeod (2007), for research to be considered as being ethical, there should be informed consent from the participants. Informed consent can only result if all participants have been given adequate information on the purpose of the research and the procedures to be used in the study. Additionally, informed consent depends on the participant’s full understanding of any dangers they may face during the research. However, in the Stanford case, participants were not fully debriefed on risks of participation in the experiment (Chang, 2015). Additionally, the researcher, Zimbardo promoted an unpredictable research that himself could not predict the outcome. Consequently, any consent may have been gotten through deception (McLeod, 2007). Again, the research was unethical as it exposed participants to unknown dangers. As a result, two participants had to remove from the experiment before its conclusion. Indeed, participants playing the role of prisoners were exposed to psychological and physical abuse. For instance, one participant who played the role of a prisoner had to be released before the due time because of uncontrollable bursts of screaming and crying after being subjected to abuse (Rubina, 2015). Again, the Stanford research was unethical since it was ended prematurely before fully debriefing participants about its success or failure. More importantly, the study broke research ethics...
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...especially for underdeveloped countries. Policies that make an economy open to trade and investment with the rest of the world are needed for sustained economic growth. The evidence on this is clear. No country in recent decades has achieved economic success, in terms of substantial increases in living standards for its people, without being open to the rest of the world. This problem resonates deeply with me and I hope to someday work on finding solutions. I am convinced that financial sector reform within these countries would inspire the development of steady financial systems as well as the dismantling of barriers to international capital flow. It is for this reason that I am applying to the graduate program in management at Stanford University. I seek the skills and knowledge I need to participate in a doctoral program and pursue a PhD in international finance and economics....
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...The case is about the company Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUN), which is located in Santa Clara (USA) and provided companies with hardware, software, storage and services in information technology (IT). SUN was founded in 1982 at the Stanford University and derived its name from the Stanford University Network. One of the company´s competitive strategies had been the global presence all over the world in order to provide excellent support to its clients anytime. Furthermore SUN could take big advantages over its competitors due to the ownership of technologies like “Solaris”, “UltraSPARC” and the “JAVA” platform. As a result, SUN had earned impressive revenues of $14 billion and holds 35,000 employees in 47 different countries. Greg James is the global manager of Sun Microsystems Inc. and leads a global team of 45 people. He studied computer science engineering at the Stanford University and had been praised for his talent of solving complex technical problems. Various Silicon Valley companies tried to hire Greg, however, he chose SUN after extensive research, as he wanted to work for a technology company where he could grow and develop his professional career. After working five years for SUN he received the SUN outstanding Manager award and was praised for his excellent customer service. Greg’s global team is composed of 45 members in France, India, the United Arabic Emirates and the United States and serve customers in Asia and Europe. His team faced a big challenge with an UK...
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...Router/ Switch Operating System Cisco IOS or Inter-work Operating System is an operating system for the company Cisco’s system routers and network switches. Cisco systems is a multinational corporation based in San Jose of California that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. The company was founded in 1984 by two people working at Stanford University on the computer support staff. The two Stanford University members were Leonard Bosack, who was in charge of the computer science department’s computers and his then girl friend Sandy Lerner who was in charge of the graduate school of business’s computers and they named it after San Francisco which is why in the company’s early years they insisted on the first “c” in cisco being not capitalized. Cisco IOS is the operating system used for their products and I will go over the history and tech specifications of this operating system. The Cisco IOS was first based off of Stanford University’s multiple protocol router software which was written by William Yeager a Stanford Research Engineer while at Stanford Medical School. Cisco IOS is a package of routing, switching, internetworking, and telecommunications functions integrated into a multitasking operating system. Cisco IOS is versioned using three numbers and a few letters in the general form of a.b(c.d)e with a being the major version number and b is the minor version number, c is the release number, and d is the interim build number omitted from general...
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...University of Houston Case Study of Cisco Systems, Inc. Nirav Sheth INTB 3354: Introduction of Global Business Professor Alana Aleman April 8, 2015 1. Introduction Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, the married couple who met at Stanford University, founded Cisco in 1984 in San Francisco, California. During Cisco’s founding years at Stanford University, Leonard Bosack, Sandy Lerner, and a few others helped connect hundreds of computers throughout Stanford University on a wired network. They understood that they could take this technology and help other university and business, which helped Cisco grow into the $150 billion networking conglomerate it is today. Cisco multiprotocol router, Cisco’s first major product, was one of a kind package of a group of routers, switches, internetworking and other telecommunication devices that helps a group of computers multitask on a closed network. From here, Cisco’s management created a market where they could sell routers, switches, servers, data centers, and other telecommunication devices and software to help connect the world through electronic devices. Like many other technology companies, there were able to help bring this technology to the rest of the world because their hardware and software did not vary too much throughout different markets. They were able to become truly global and sell their products all over the world to enable billions of people enable them to connect into the digital world. (Boudreau) 2. Problems ...
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...governments, participate on an equal footing. They also called for the transition to IPv6 to remain a top priority globally. In particular Internet content providers must serve content with both IPv4 and IPv6 services, in order to be fully reachable on the global Internet. Could this be the invention that will allow electric vehicles to permanently displace gasoline-powered cars? A group of scientists from Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has developed a battery electrode that can heal itself, potentially offering a commercially viable path for making the next generation of lithium-ion batteries to be used in electric cars, cell phones and other devices. According to scientists, the secret behind the newly invented battery is a stretchy polymer that coats the electrode, binds it together and instinctively heals small cracks that develop while the battery is in use. "Self-healing is very important for the survival and long lifetimes of animals and plants," Chao Wang, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford and one of two principal authors of the paper, said in a...
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...Researchers at Stanford University have discovered what they say is more evidence that compulsive use of the Internet may be more than just a bad habit. "Potential markers of problematic Internet use seem present in a sizable proportion of adults," the researchers concluded in an article published in CNS Spectrums: The International Journal of Neuropsychiatric Medicine. "This is the largest study by far to try to understand how widespread this problem might be," lead author of the article, Dr. Elias Aboujaoude, director of the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic at Stanford University's school of medicine, told TechNewsWorld. Need Their Net Through a random-digit-dial telephone survey of 2,513 adults in the United States, the Stanford team found that of the almost 70 percent of respondents who were Internet users, 13.7 percent found it hard to stay away from the Net for more than several days at a time. That number is higher than that seen in prior research on the problem, according to Hilarie Cash, co-founder of Internet/Computer Addiction Services in Redmond, Wash. "Earlier research had shown about six percent of the population struggling with this," she told TechNewsWorld. The researchers also discovered that 8.7 percent of Web users in the survey attempted to conceal non-essential Internet use from family, friends and employees. "One sign of addiction is secrecy, hiding, lying about it," Cash observed. Disorder or Symptom? Now that they've unearthed...
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...Hewlett-Packard Company or HP (styled as HP) is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. It provides hardware, software and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors. The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by William "Bill" Redington Hewlett, David "Dave" Packard, and Mike Limon, starting with a line of electronic test equipment. HP is the world's leading PC manufacturer and has been since 2007, fending off a challenge by Chinese manufacturer Lenovo, according to Gartner.[2] It specializes in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, and networking hardware, designing software and delivering services. Major product lines include personal computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, related storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers and other imaging products. HP markets its products to households, small- to medium-sized businesses and enterprises directly as well as via online distribution, consumer-electronics and office-supply retailers, software partners and major technology vendors. HP also has services and consulting business around its products and partner products. In 2013 it was the world's second-largest PC vendor by unit sales.[3] Hewlett-Packard company events have included the spin-off of its...
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...computer and semiconductor businesses in California. Silicon Valley itself is an entrepreneur because of the collection of talented people who contributed a lot to make that the Silicon Valley. Palo Alto and Menlo Park in just south of Sun Francisco is the start of Silicon Valley and the home of Stanford University. Many reputed business companies and legendary names of entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs of Apple Computers, Larry of Oracle, John Chamber of Cisco, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems, Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore of Intel Corporation, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard of Hewlett Packard company, Shockley of Fairchild semiconductor etc formed their business in this valley with their entrepreneurial talent that creating strong economy. Fred Terman was the professor and later the founder of Stanford Research Park who always encouraged his students to go into business that results the Hewlett Packard Company. He played a role of instructor to the probable entrepreneurs. The development of mechanism, infrastructure and opportunity is other important factors of encouraging and serving the entrepreneurs in this valley. Spin offs and networking are two essential mechanisms whereas Stanford University itself is the most important infrastructure. That is why venture capitalists move to this place and spent enough money to support the growth of significant businesses. On the other hand, Silicon chip, personal computer including software as well as the internet is the key opportunities to the...
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...Cisco Systems, Inc. was founded in 1984, its corporate headquarters is located in San Jose, California. Cisco is one the most prominent corporation's in The Silicon Valley. Cisco was founded by a husband and wife team, who were both working for Stanford University. They were unable to email each other from offices in separate buildings or across the campus, due to technological shortcomings at that time. They wanted to create the ability to email each other from their separate buildings across the campus. Cisco is a global marketing corporation, they've definitely have created a global brand name for themselves. Cisco designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. The Internet of Everything brings together people, processes, data, and things, to make connectivity more relevant and valuable than ever. Cisco markets their belief that the customers come first, they've created a long-lasting customer base with strong partnerships and relationships. They work closely with their customers to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success. Cisco has shaped the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for their customers, employees, investors and ecosystem partners and has become the worldwide leader in networking - transforming how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Cisco is most definitely a global marketing machine. I've worked in the technology industry for over 16 years. In my opinion and many others...
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...photo-sharing iPhone application called Instagram. What happened next was crazier than they could have imagined. In a matter of hours, thousands downloaded it. The computer systems handling the photos kept crashing. Neither of them knew what to do. "Who's, like, the smartest person I know who I can call up?" Mr. Systrom remembered thinking. He scrolled through his phone and found his man: Adam D'Angelo, a former chief technology officer at Facebook. They had met at a party seven years earlier, over beers in red plastic cups, at the Sigma Nu fraternity at Stanford University. That night in October 2010, Mr. D'Angelo became Instagram's lifeline. "Adam spent like 30 minutes on the phone with us," Mr. Systrom recalled, "walking us through the basic things we needed to do to get back up." Mr. Systrom, now 29, offered this as a parable for the roomful of would-be entrepreneurs who came to hear him talk at Stanford last spring: in the intensely competitive start-up scene here, success is as much about who you know as what you know. "Make sure to spend some time after the talk getting to know the people around you," he told his audience. Those people, he might have added, might one day shape your destiny. They might one day press money into your palm. They might nudge you to quit your day job and gamble on a vague idea. This week, barely 18 months after that night in the warehouse, Instagram was scooped up by Facebook for $1 billion, turning Mr. Systrom, Mr. Krieger and...
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...employee who makes the company successful. They believe in treating their employees on how they want to be treated. TheyWe strive to maintain the open culture often associated with startups, in which everyone is a hands-on contributor and feels comfortable sharing ideas and opinions (Google, 2012). Even though they may seem like a successful company on the outside, all companies have their strengths and weaknesses. Google goal is to stay the leading search engine globally. They are always trying to find ways to improve themselves to compete with other companies like Microsoft, yahoo, Bing and etc. Who they are? Google is the leading search engine in the world. When were they discover? Discover in 1996 Where were they discover? Stanford University What they believe? 1. Focus on the user and all else will follow. 2. It’s best to do one thing really, really well. 3. Fast is better than slow. 4. Democracy on the web works. 5. You don’t need to be at your desk to need an answer. 6. You can make money without doing evil. 7. There’s always more information out there. 8. The need for information crosses all borders. 9. You can be serious without a suit. 10. Great just isn’t good enough. Why? They are always trying to...
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...customers, due to the many products it offers. This report discusses the company and its successful products as well as the employees and their working environment. Company overview Cisco is a multinational corporation involved in designing, developing and selling many different types of networking equipment. It is an American company started in 1984 with its headquarters in San Jose, California. It has many qualified employees amounting to 64,000 who work around the world producing quality products. It has more than fifteen products and competes with more than twenty-five other companies although it has continuously maintained a reputation as the best. History Cisco is a company started in 1984 by a married couple who were from Stanford University. Leonard Bosack and Sandy Learner used to share information from their offices and developed a device that could help them share information from their computers. This technology was successful...
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...Kristyna Pavlickova WR 098 Professor Finlayson 04/05/2012 Is internet really making us better off? Comparing Diana Schaub’s “Unfriending Friendship” and Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nowadays it can be considered a general fact that the internet helps people in various ways, not only at work, but also in their personal lives. Most people see the internet and social networks as an enormous asset to their everyday life. However, according to Diana Schaub in her essay, “Unfriending friendship,” and Nicholas Carr in his essay, “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” the internet and social media also causes negative effects on our everyday life. Even though these two essays, both written around the year 2010, have different topics and there are certainly differences in the authors’ writing styles, they still have some similarities. These two essays share a similar theme: that the internet and social media diminish our human capabilities to think and make friends. Some differences occur in how Carr and Schaub approach their readers’, one author uses personal examples and the other shows differences in word meanings. In Carr’s article, he includes his own examples to show readers how the internet has changed his capability of reading longer texts; now his attention span has greatly decreased because he is used to short style of text on the internet. At the beginning of Carr’s essay there is a short part of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Oddyssey which Carr uses to...
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...Cisco Systems Organizational Culture & Communications COM/530 Communications for Accountants November 21, 2011 Abstract Cisco System was founded in 1984 by Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, husband and wife academics at Stanford University who invented a technology to link their separate computer systems to send email to each other. Over the years the Cisco’s strategy and mission has changed drastically. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education and government and home communication (Redmond, Spri). Cisco System is worldwide leader in networking for the Internet known as the “Human Network.” The company operates on the core value of customer focus and corporate citizenship. Do espoused values align with its enacted values? What role communication plays in perception and organizational culture? What role might perceptions and conflict in group communication be credited with the organizations incredible success today. The correlation between Cisco’s growing success and culture emphasized main theme the customers come first and an integral part of our DNA is creating long lasting customer partnerships and working with them to identify their needs and provide solutions that support their success (Cisco System, 1992). Since its inception, the concept of Cisco being driven to address specific customer challenges. Cisco’s success has been attributed to its relationship with its customers. They professed a ‘worship of customers’, which was a part...
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