Marking Guidelines Cases studies are due on paper at the beginning of each class (e.g. xx.00pm). Late cases get zero. |Marks | | |5 |Key Events / Case synopsis | | |Maximum of six (6) sentences here. Provide a brief history of the company up to the time of
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Walt Disney 1. Calculate the nominal compound average annual rate of return for Walt Disney stock from the end of 1994 through the end of 2010. How well did the stockholders do? CAGR = (Ending Value/Beg Value)^(1/#yrs) -1 2. Over the past 5 years what has been the continuously compounded nominal and real average annual growth in Disney’s Total Revenue? Disney’s most recent fiscal year‐end is 9/30/2010. Disney’s sales revenue for 2010 (9/30/2010) was $38.063 billion. Use a OLS regression
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Saad Rauf Rathore 5 December 2010 Should Businesses Behave Ethically? According to a study on ethics by the Santa Clara University, a number of years ago sociologist Raymond Baumhart conducted a survey asking people about what they think of ethics. The results showed many people linking ethics to their feelings, their religion and standards set by the society (Manuel et al, para. 2). Manuel Velasquez and other authors of an article published by the Santa Clara University on business ethics
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General comments on Burt’s Bee (BB) case Burt's Bees is an American personal care products company that describes itself as an "Earth friendly, Natural Personal Care Company" making products for personal care, health, beauty, and personal hygiene. Burt's Bees originated in Maine as a candle making partnership between Roxanne Quimby and Burt Shavitz in 1984. As of 2007, they manufactured over 197 products for facial and body skin care, lip care, hair care, baby care, men's grooming, and outdoor
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Several businesses such as Primark, Lidl and Gap have been accused of being unethical in recent years. Do you think it is essential to take ethics into consideration when making business decisions nowadays? (40 marks) Ethics are moral principles that govern a person or a group’s behaviour. When applied to business this involves the examination of how people and institutions should behave in the world of commerce. For example, when the actions of a firm may affect others. One reason why it is
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A Case Study: The Body Shop International PLC Submitted by: I. Executive Summary II. Background III. Problem Identification The Body Shop needs to stop the decline of net profit and come up with ways to strengthen the company in terms of marketability of products, profitability and efficiency of processes. IV. SWOT Analysis STRENGTHS | WEAKNESSES | * Perception of a “humanized” and ethical company * Known and established player in the “cosm’ethics”
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she would be dismissed from the company if she continued complaining. The lawsuit also claimed that the same wholesaler who tried to bribe Colombo began to harass her sexually, making her fearful and uncomfortable in the workplace.... * In the case with Coleen Colombo and colleagues
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sweatshop factories, or agricultural work. (u.s department of state) The sweat shop workers are locked in a hot rooms with 30-100 people to make counterfeit items. The sweat shops or labor mill owners often threaten seriously harm to the victims working for them if deadlines, quantity, or quality is not met. During the horrible working conditions, many of the workers get hurt by fires, faulty equipment, and fights. The sweat shops or labor mills owners usually do not care if the people die while working
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Baggrundshistorie for The Body Shop og L’Oréal 8 3.0. Analyse 10 3.1. Analyse af The Body Shop og L’Oréal ud fra Ingleharts teori om modernitet og postmodernitet 10 3.2. Analyse af primære data 12 4.0. Diskussion 16 4.1. Etisk mainstreaming i skønhedsbranchen 17 4.2. Brandværdi 20 4.3. Diskussion af hypoteser og deres validitet 21 5.0. Konklusion 24 6.0. Kilder 25 Bilag 1 29 Kerneværdier i moderne og postmoderne virksomheder: et casestudie af L’Oréal og The Body Shop 1.0. Indledning
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Do you agree with Milton Friedman’s (1970) claim that: “the only responsibility of business is to increase its profits”? Today we live in a world were companies are major actors and influence society on many levels. This is why ethics were brought into the business world. Ethical enterprises follow certain values and moral beliefs and were created with the supposed intention of using that influence in a positive way and protect what surrounds them, whether it is the people who work for the company
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