The document describes a scenario where Betty King is the new controller of EZdot.com, which is experiencing severe cash flow problems exacerbated by an acquisition. Betty discovers the president Ryan Roberts is holding customer checks and manipulating the company's daily float. The bank wants to meet with Betty due to concerns about the company's viability. As Betty, the options are to: explain the issues to the bank, say nothing, talk to Ryan, hint at the issues to the bank, or attempt to cover up problems. A team paper is assigned analyzing the ethical options.
Tired to search for interesting people in the crowd?Ever wanted to be introduced to that gorgeous friend of one friend of yours?
Close can do that for you. Putting you in touch with your friends to look over their friends list and find people that can be interesting to you.
Você sabe um pouco de SQL e gostaria de começar a explorar as possibilidades em BigData? Você vai se surpreender no quão fácil é de analisar terabytes de dados utilizando o Apache Hive. O Hive é um framework que traduz consultas SQL em Jobs Map-Reduce executados em um cluster de máquinas distribuídas rodando o Apache Hadoop.
Tired to search for interesting people in the crowd?Ever wanted to be introduced to that gorgeous friend of one friend of yours?
Close can do that for you. Putting you in touch with your friends to look over their friends list and find people that can be interesting to you.
Você sabe um pouco de SQL e gostaria de começar a explorar as possibilidades em BigData? Você vai se surpreender no quão fácil é de analisar terabytes de dados utilizando o Apache Hive. O Hive é um framework que traduz consultas SQL em Jobs Map-Reduce executados em um cluster de máquinas distribuídas rodando o Apache Hadoop.
This template was put together for internal teammates to leverage when producing slides for internal and external use. The Bask Bank brand was incorporated throughout with a tool set of iconography, logos, and images that would help teammates from all disciplines remain true to the Bask brand when communicating.
Easy business finance, a guide to obtaining business lending at low interest rates and hassle free. Looking at cash flow finance, asset finance, commercial & business mortgages and unsecured business loans.
Sharing our experiences, expertise and knowledge about how credit appraisal works, we aim to make business finance easier to obtain and a less time consuming and risky process.
We explain why so many businesses struggle to raise funding, the main issues behind this and how to overcome them.
One of our most advanced training programs with >270 videos, is where we help a major Latin American Bank determine if they should enter the highly competitive US retail banking sector.
We asked the partner leading this study, Michael, to document each day of the study as he thought through the issues, managed the client and led the engagement team on this complex assignment.
The subsequent live-blog was one of the most popular programs we ever released. The posts were prepared at the end of each day of the study so you can see how the thinking on the study evolved. We have since re-edited the live blog.
At 600 pages long, the re-edited live blog is probably the most detailed guide anywhere demonstrating how a partner thinks on a study. You will see that it is not a linear process. It is not a function of simply finding and plugging in a framework. Though there is a clear logic to the thought process.
On StrategyJournal.com we are publishing the entire re-edited live-blog.
On the Strategy Skills podcast channel, we will publish an accompanying free podcast series.
Insiders, our most loyal clients, who want to see how we conducted the analyses, the actual engagement slides and follow the training to replicate this type of partner-level thinking can view all ~270 detailed videos at StrategyTraining.com and Premium members can view the videos on StrategyTV.com.
The 10 Biggest Questions We Received From Tech Startups - NextView VenturesNextView Ventures
These were the most popular blog post we created in the last six months for our startup blog, The View From Seed. This site is dedicated to seed-stage tech startups in the web and mobile spaces. NextView is a leading seed VC located in Boston. Topics include raising venture capital, hiring a COO, content marketing and blogging, and more.
· Sanjon has worked for the South Insurance Company for the past 2.docxodiliagilby
· Sanjon has worked for the South Insurance Company for the past 23 years. He graduated with a top-notch accounting degree and also has his MBA. Bar none, Sanjon is considered by everyone in his organization to be a brilliant accountant. At issue is that Sanjon's brilliance may be coupled with just a little too much "creativity" when one considers his approach to maximizing the company's profits.
At the end of every quarter, Sanjon calls up the supervisors of each of South’s insurance branches and asks them to estimate their outstanding insurance claims. These insurance claims represent money that the company likely owes its customers—that is, claims are estimates of money owed at the end of the quarter to South’s customers who are likely to file a claim in the near future, but who have not yet done so. (The total money owed—but still outstanding—is referred to as a "claims lag," since there is a lag between the date of an insurable event and the date that South becomes aware that a customer has filed a valid claim).
For instance, based on historical experience, at the end of each quarter, Division 1 of South Insurance estimates that 20% of all claims for that quarter are still outstanding (i.e., an insurable event has occurred, but has not yet been reported to Division 1). This is the number (20%) reported to Sanjon. Being the "brilliant" accountant that he is, and in light of his sheer eagerness to maximize profits for the quarter (and because his quarterly bonus is based on each quarter's profits), Sanjon reduces the outstanding claims reported by all of South's insurance divisions by 10%. In doing so, he has effectively reduced the company's quarterly claims expenses by this same 10%—and voila!— Sanjon has also managed a creative increase in his own quarterly bonus.
Sanjon sees nothing wrong in reducing the divisions' company claims estimates, reasoning, "Look, they're all a bunch of estimates anyhow!" Sanjon further opines, "Besides, I have a duty to this company and to its stockholders—to maximize profits!"
Consider this situation from a virtue ethics perspective. What virtues are at stake?
Does Sanjon appear to be rationalizing his behavior as a "duty" to others?
On a scale of unethical (1) to ethical (5), where would you rate Sanjon’s practice? Why?
Note:
150 word response to the posts of at least two of your classmates. Your responses should have depth of critical thought and not simply agree or disagree. For each response also bring in information from at least one background source or your own research to help inform your classmates. Cite the source.
Classmate Post #1
Who Do You Want To Be???
Hello Everyone,
Virtue ethics you are decisions we make that help mold us into better people. This implies that our character, who we are, changes based on the decisions we make throughout our life (The Ethics Centre, 2016). In other words, a virtuous person makes decisions not based on personal gains but on the sheer fact that ...
This paper is due TODAY AT 10.30 PM no later.Complete the follow.docxbrockdebroah
This paper is due TODAY AT 10.30 PM no later.
Complete
the following:
Case Problem 6.1 A-C (page 252)
Case Problem 6.2 A-C (page 252)
Case Problem 7.1 A-C (page 293)
Case Problem 7.2 A-C (page 294)
Case Problem 8.1 A-B (page 332)
Case Problem 8.2 A-B (page 333)
Case Problem 9.2 A-C (page 374)
Format
your submission consistent with APA guidelines.
Case problem 6.1 A-C
Case Problem
6.1
Sara Decides to Take the Plunge
1.
LG
1
2.
LG
6
Sara Thomas is a child psychologist who has built a thriving practice in her hometown of Boise, Idaho. Over the past several years she has been able to accumulate a substantial sum of money. She has worked long and hard to be successful, but she never imagined anything like this. Even so, success has not spoiled Sara. Still single, she keeps to her old circle of friends. One of her closest friends is Terry Jenkins, who happens to be a stockbroker and who acts as Sara’s financial advisor.
Not long ago Sara attended a seminar on investing in the stock market, and since then she’s been doing some reading about the market. She has concluded that keeping all of her money in low-yielding savings accounts doesn’t make sense. As a result, Sara has decided to move part of her money to stocks. One evening, Sara told Terry about her decision and explained that she had found several stocks that she thought looked “sort of interesting.” She described them as follows:
·
North Atlantic Swim Suit Company.
This highly speculative stock pays no dividends. Although the earnings of NASS have been a bit erratic, Sara feels that its growth prospects have never been brighter—“what with more people than ever going to the beaches the way they are these days,” she says.
·
Town and Country Computer.
This is a long-established computer firm that pays a modest dividend yield (of about 1.50%). It is considered a quality growth stock. From one of the stock reports she read, Sara understands that T&C offers excellent long-term growth and capital gains potential.
·
Southeastern Public Utility Company.
This income stock pays a dividend yield of around 5%. Although it’s a solid company, it has limited growth prospects because of its location.
·
International Gold Mines, Inc.
This stock has performed quite well in the past, especially when inflation has become a problem. Sara feels that if it can do so well in inflationary times, it will do even better in a strong economy. Unfortunately, the stock has experienced wide price swings in the past. It pays almost no dividends.
Questions
a.
What do you think of the idea of Sara keeping “substantial sums” of money in savings accounts? Would common stocks make better investments for her than savings accounts? Explain.
b.
What is your opinion of the four stocks Sara has described? Do you think they are suitable for her investment needs? Explain.
c.
What kind of common stock investment program would you recommend for Sara? What investment objectives do you think she should set for hers.
COMMON ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF INDIVIDUALSBA 354COLLEG.docxcargillfilberto
COMMON ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF INDIVIDUALS
BA 354
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
1
ASSUMPTIONS OF THE “GIVING VOICE TO VALUES” APPROACH:
Ethical dilemmas at work are common, not rare.
You have values that you want to live up to.
There are many ways that you can voice your values.
Practicing ahead of time will help you to be more effective.
2
THE POWER OF FAIRNESS
The example of grades
Equity
Reciprocity
Impartiality
3
Discrimination
Unequal treatment based on one’s race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, disability, etc.
Standard for hiring, promotions, etc., should be the ability to do a job
+
4
Have you ever experienced discrimination?
What could you have done about it?
Why is discrimination an ethical issue?
DISCRIMINATION
5
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Objectivity is compromised by possibility of financial or other gains.
Gifts or bribes
Access to resources such as privileged information
Relationships or Influence
6
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
7
Conflict of Interest
Your daughter is applying to a prestigious university. Since admission to the school is difficult, your daughter has planned the process carefully. She has consistently achieved high marks, taken preparatory courses for entrance exams, and has participated in various extracurricular activities. When you tell one of your best customers about her activities, he offers to write her a letter of recommendation. He's an alumnus of the school and is one of its most active fund raisers. Although he's a customer, you also regularly play golf together and your families have socialized together on occasion.
8
CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE
Includes such issues as
Confidentiality
Product safety
Truth in advertising
Fiduciary responsibilities
9
Confidentiality
You work for a consulting company in Atlanta. Your team has recently completed an analysis of Big Co. including sales projections for the next five years. You're working late one night when you receive a call from an executive vice president at Big Co. in Los Angeles, who asks you to immediately fax her a summary of your team's report. When you locate the report, you discover that your team leader has stamped "For internal use only" on the report cover. Your team leader is on a hiking vacation and you know it would be impossible to locate him. Big Co. has a long-standing relationship with your company and has paid substantial fees for your company's services.
10
Product Safety
You’re the head of marketing for a small pharmaceutical company that has just discovered a very promising drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. You have spent months designing a marketing campaign which contains printed materials and medication sample kits for distribution to almost every family physician and gerontologist in the country. As the materials are being loaded into cartons for delivery to your company’s representatives, your assistant tells you that .
COMMON ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF INDIVIDUALSBA 354COLLEG.docxdrandy1
COMMON ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF INDIVIDUALS
BA 354
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
1
ASSUMPTIONS OF THE “GIVING VOICE TO VALUES” APPROACH:
Ethical dilemmas at work are common, not rare.
You have values that you want to live up to.
There are many ways that you can voice your values.
Practicing ahead of time will help you to be more effective.
2
THE POWER OF FAIRNESS
The example of grades
Equity
Reciprocity
Impartiality
3
Discrimination
Unequal treatment based on one’s race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, disability, etc.
Standard for hiring, promotions, etc., should be the ability to do a job
+
4
Have you ever experienced discrimination?
What could you have done about it?
Why is discrimination an ethical issue?
DISCRIMINATION
5
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Objectivity is compromised by possibility of financial or other gains.
Gifts or bribes
Access to resources such as privileged information
Relationships or Influence
6
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
7
Conflict of Interest
Your daughter is applying to a prestigious university. Since admission to the school is difficult, your daughter has planned the process carefully. She has consistently achieved high marks, taken preparatory courses for entrance exams, and has participated in various extracurricular activities. When you tell one of your best customers about her activities, he offers to write her a letter of recommendation. He's an alumnus of the school and is one of its most active fund raisers. Although he's a customer, you also regularly play golf together and your families have socialized together on occasion.
8
CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE
Includes such issues as
Confidentiality
Product safety
Truth in advertising
Fiduciary responsibilities
9
Confidentiality
You work for a consulting company in Atlanta. Your team has recently completed an analysis of Big Co. including sales projections for the next five years. You're working late one night when you receive a call from an executive vice president at Big Co. in Los Angeles, who asks you to immediately fax her a summary of your team's report. When you locate the report, you discover that your team leader has stamped "For internal use only" on the report cover. Your team leader is on a hiking vacation and you know it would be impossible to locate him. Big Co. has a long-standing relationship with your company and has paid substantial fees for your company's services.
10
Product Safety
You’re the head of marketing for a small pharmaceutical company that has just discovered a very promising drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. You have spent months designing a marketing campaign which contains printed materials and medication sample kits for distribution to almost every family physician and gerontologist in the country. As the materials are being loaded into cartons for delivery to your company’s representatives, your assistant tells you that .
Resolve your hidden conflicts to grow your businessVinay Kulkarni
Every so often I run into a business that screams “GROWTH POTENTIAL!”, but when the owners reveal that the business has been around for 20 years I find myself asking, “Why aren’t they living the lifestyles of their dreams already?” Of course, there can be many reasons why a company might not grow to realize its potential, but there are two reasons that stand out in my mind as fixable:
Conflicting priorities
Conflicting metrics
Resolve your hidden conflicts and grow your businesscoolki
Every so often I run into a business that screams “GROWTH POTENTIAL!”, but when the owners reveal that the business has been around for 20 years I find myself asking, “Why aren’t they living the lifestyles of their dreams already?”
This template was put together for internal teammates to leverage when producing slides for internal and external use. The Bask Bank brand was incorporated throughout with a tool set of iconography, logos, and images that would help teammates from all disciplines remain true to the Bask brand when communicating.
Easy business finance, a guide to obtaining business lending at low interest rates and hassle free. Looking at cash flow finance, asset finance, commercial & business mortgages and unsecured business loans.
Sharing our experiences, expertise and knowledge about how credit appraisal works, we aim to make business finance easier to obtain and a less time consuming and risky process.
We explain why so many businesses struggle to raise funding, the main issues behind this and how to overcome them.
One of our most advanced training programs with >270 videos, is where we help a major Latin American Bank determine if they should enter the highly competitive US retail banking sector.
We asked the partner leading this study, Michael, to document each day of the study as he thought through the issues, managed the client and led the engagement team on this complex assignment.
The subsequent live-blog was one of the most popular programs we ever released. The posts were prepared at the end of each day of the study so you can see how the thinking on the study evolved. We have since re-edited the live blog.
At 600 pages long, the re-edited live blog is probably the most detailed guide anywhere demonstrating how a partner thinks on a study. You will see that it is not a linear process. It is not a function of simply finding and plugging in a framework. Though there is a clear logic to the thought process.
On StrategyJournal.com we are publishing the entire re-edited live-blog.
On the Strategy Skills podcast channel, we will publish an accompanying free podcast series.
Insiders, our most loyal clients, who want to see how we conducted the analyses, the actual engagement slides and follow the training to replicate this type of partner-level thinking can view all ~270 detailed videos at StrategyTraining.com and Premium members can view the videos on StrategyTV.com.
The 10 Biggest Questions We Received From Tech Startups - NextView VenturesNextView Ventures
These were the most popular blog post we created in the last six months for our startup blog, The View From Seed. This site is dedicated to seed-stage tech startups in the web and mobile spaces. NextView is a leading seed VC located in Boston. Topics include raising venture capital, hiring a COO, content marketing and blogging, and more.
· Sanjon has worked for the South Insurance Company for the past 2.docxodiliagilby
· Sanjon has worked for the South Insurance Company for the past 23 years. He graduated with a top-notch accounting degree and also has his MBA. Bar none, Sanjon is considered by everyone in his organization to be a brilliant accountant. At issue is that Sanjon's brilliance may be coupled with just a little too much "creativity" when one considers his approach to maximizing the company's profits.
At the end of every quarter, Sanjon calls up the supervisors of each of South’s insurance branches and asks them to estimate their outstanding insurance claims. These insurance claims represent money that the company likely owes its customers—that is, claims are estimates of money owed at the end of the quarter to South’s customers who are likely to file a claim in the near future, but who have not yet done so. (The total money owed—but still outstanding—is referred to as a "claims lag," since there is a lag between the date of an insurable event and the date that South becomes aware that a customer has filed a valid claim).
For instance, based on historical experience, at the end of each quarter, Division 1 of South Insurance estimates that 20% of all claims for that quarter are still outstanding (i.e., an insurable event has occurred, but has not yet been reported to Division 1). This is the number (20%) reported to Sanjon. Being the "brilliant" accountant that he is, and in light of his sheer eagerness to maximize profits for the quarter (and because his quarterly bonus is based on each quarter's profits), Sanjon reduces the outstanding claims reported by all of South's insurance divisions by 10%. In doing so, he has effectively reduced the company's quarterly claims expenses by this same 10%—and voila!— Sanjon has also managed a creative increase in his own quarterly bonus.
Sanjon sees nothing wrong in reducing the divisions' company claims estimates, reasoning, "Look, they're all a bunch of estimates anyhow!" Sanjon further opines, "Besides, I have a duty to this company and to its stockholders—to maximize profits!"
Consider this situation from a virtue ethics perspective. What virtues are at stake?
Does Sanjon appear to be rationalizing his behavior as a "duty" to others?
On a scale of unethical (1) to ethical (5), where would you rate Sanjon’s practice? Why?
Note:
150 word response to the posts of at least two of your classmates. Your responses should have depth of critical thought and not simply agree or disagree. For each response also bring in information from at least one background source or your own research to help inform your classmates. Cite the source.
Classmate Post #1
Who Do You Want To Be???
Hello Everyone,
Virtue ethics you are decisions we make that help mold us into better people. This implies that our character, who we are, changes based on the decisions we make throughout our life (The Ethics Centre, 2016). In other words, a virtuous person makes decisions not based on personal gains but on the sheer fact that ...
This paper is due TODAY AT 10.30 PM no later.Complete the follow.docxbrockdebroah
This paper is due TODAY AT 10.30 PM no later.
Complete
the following:
Case Problem 6.1 A-C (page 252)
Case Problem 6.2 A-C (page 252)
Case Problem 7.1 A-C (page 293)
Case Problem 7.2 A-C (page 294)
Case Problem 8.1 A-B (page 332)
Case Problem 8.2 A-B (page 333)
Case Problem 9.2 A-C (page 374)
Format
your submission consistent with APA guidelines.
Case problem 6.1 A-C
Case Problem
6.1
Sara Decides to Take the Plunge
1.
LG
1
2.
LG
6
Sara Thomas is a child psychologist who has built a thriving practice in her hometown of Boise, Idaho. Over the past several years she has been able to accumulate a substantial sum of money. She has worked long and hard to be successful, but she never imagined anything like this. Even so, success has not spoiled Sara. Still single, she keeps to her old circle of friends. One of her closest friends is Terry Jenkins, who happens to be a stockbroker and who acts as Sara’s financial advisor.
Not long ago Sara attended a seminar on investing in the stock market, and since then she’s been doing some reading about the market. She has concluded that keeping all of her money in low-yielding savings accounts doesn’t make sense. As a result, Sara has decided to move part of her money to stocks. One evening, Sara told Terry about her decision and explained that she had found several stocks that she thought looked “sort of interesting.” She described them as follows:
·
North Atlantic Swim Suit Company.
This highly speculative stock pays no dividends. Although the earnings of NASS have been a bit erratic, Sara feels that its growth prospects have never been brighter—“what with more people than ever going to the beaches the way they are these days,” she says.
·
Town and Country Computer.
This is a long-established computer firm that pays a modest dividend yield (of about 1.50%). It is considered a quality growth stock. From one of the stock reports she read, Sara understands that T&C offers excellent long-term growth and capital gains potential.
·
Southeastern Public Utility Company.
This income stock pays a dividend yield of around 5%. Although it’s a solid company, it has limited growth prospects because of its location.
·
International Gold Mines, Inc.
This stock has performed quite well in the past, especially when inflation has become a problem. Sara feels that if it can do so well in inflationary times, it will do even better in a strong economy. Unfortunately, the stock has experienced wide price swings in the past. It pays almost no dividends.
Questions
a.
What do you think of the idea of Sara keeping “substantial sums” of money in savings accounts? Would common stocks make better investments for her than savings accounts? Explain.
b.
What is your opinion of the four stocks Sara has described? Do you think they are suitable for her investment needs? Explain.
c.
What kind of common stock investment program would you recommend for Sara? What investment objectives do you think she should set for hers.
COMMON ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF INDIVIDUALSBA 354COLLEG.docxcargillfilberto
COMMON ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF INDIVIDUALS
BA 354
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
1
ASSUMPTIONS OF THE “GIVING VOICE TO VALUES” APPROACH:
Ethical dilemmas at work are common, not rare.
You have values that you want to live up to.
There are many ways that you can voice your values.
Practicing ahead of time will help you to be more effective.
2
THE POWER OF FAIRNESS
The example of grades
Equity
Reciprocity
Impartiality
3
Discrimination
Unequal treatment based on one’s race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, disability, etc.
Standard for hiring, promotions, etc., should be the ability to do a job
+
4
Have you ever experienced discrimination?
What could you have done about it?
Why is discrimination an ethical issue?
DISCRIMINATION
5
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Objectivity is compromised by possibility of financial or other gains.
Gifts or bribes
Access to resources such as privileged information
Relationships or Influence
6
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
7
Conflict of Interest
Your daughter is applying to a prestigious university. Since admission to the school is difficult, your daughter has planned the process carefully. She has consistently achieved high marks, taken preparatory courses for entrance exams, and has participated in various extracurricular activities. When you tell one of your best customers about her activities, he offers to write her a letter of recommendation. He's an alumnus of the school and is one of its most active fund raisers. Although he's a customer, you also regularly play golf together and your families have socialized together on occasion.
8
CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE
Includes such issues as
Confidentiality
Product safety
Truth in advertising
Fiduciary responsibilities
9
Confidentiality
You work for a consulting company in Atlanta. Your team has recently completed an analysis of Big Co. including sales projections for the next five years. You're working late one night when you receive a call from an executive vice president at Big Co. in Los Angeles, who asks you to immediately fax her a summary of your team's report. When you locate the report, you discover that your team leader has stamped "For internal use only" on the report cover. Your team leader is on a hiking vacation and you know it would be impossible to locate him. Big Co. has a long-standing relationship with your company and has paid substantial fees for your company's services.
10
Product Safety
You’re the head of marketing for a small pharmaceutical company that has just discovered a very promising drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. You have spent months designing a marketing campaign which contains printed materials and medication sample kits for distribution to almost every family physician and gerontologist in the country. As the materials are being loaded into cartons for delivery to your company’s representatives, your assistant tells you that .
COMMON ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF INDIVIDUALSBA 354COLLEG.docxdrandy1
COMMON ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF INDIVIDUALS
BA 354
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
1
ASSUMPTIONS OF THE “GIVING VOICE TO VALUES” APPROACH:
Ethical dilemmas at work are common, not rare.
You have values that you want to live up to.
There are many ways that you can voice your values.
Practicing ahead of time will help you to be more effective.
2
THE POWER OF FAIRNESS
The example of grades
Equity
Reciprocity
Impartiality
3
Discrimination
Unequal treatment based on one’s race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, disability, etc.
Standard for hiring, promotions, etc., should be the ability to do a job
+
4
Have you ever experienced discrimination?
What could you have done about it?
Why is discrimination an ethical issue?
DISCRIMINATION
5
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Objectivity is compromised by possibility of financial or other gains.
Gifts or bribes
Access to resources such as privileged information
Relationships or Influence
6
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
7
Conflict of Interest
Your daughter is applying to a prestigious university. Since admission to the school is difficult, your daughter has planned the process carefully. She has consistently achieved high marks, taken preparatory courses for entrance exams, and has participated in various extracurricular activities. When you tell one of your best customers about her activities, he offers to write her a letter of recommendation. He's an alumnus of the school and is one of its most active fund raisers. Although he's a customer, you also regularly play golf together and your families have socialized together on occasion.
8
CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE
Includes such issues as
Confidentiality
Product safety
Truth in advertising
Fiduciary responsibilities
9
Confidentiality
You work for a consulting company in Atlanta. Your team has recently completed an analysis of Big Co. including sales projections for the next five years. You're working late one night when you receive a call from an executive vice president at Big Co. in Los Angeles, who asks you to immediately fax her a summary of your team's report. When you locate the report, you discover that your team leader has stamped "For internal use only" on the report cover. Your team leader is on a hiking vacation and you know it would be impossible to locate him. Big Co. has a long-standing relationship with your company and has paid substantial fees for your company's services.
10
Product Safety
You’re the head of marketing for a small pharmaceutical company that has just discovered a very promising drug for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. You have spent months designing a marketing campaign which contains printed materials and medication sample kits for distribution to almost every family physician and gerontologist in the country. As the materials are being loaded into cartons for delivery to your company’s representatives, your assistant tells you that .
Resolve your hidden conflicts to grow your businessVinay Kulkarni
Every so often I run into a business that screams “GROWTH POTENTIAL!”, but when the owners reveal that the business has been around for 20 years I find myself asking, “Why aren’t they living the lifestyles of their dreams already?” Of course, there can be many reasons why a company might not grow to realize its potential, but there are two reasons that stand out in my mind as fixable:
Conflicting priorities
Conflicting metrics
Resolve your hidden conflicts and grow your businesscoolki
Every so often I run into a business that screams “GROWTH POTENTIAL!”, but when the owners reveal that the business has been around for 20 years I find myself asking, “Why aren’t they living the lifestyles of their dreams already?”
Busn412 week 7 managing innovation, fostering corporate entrepreneurship you decide
1. BUSN412 Week 7 Managing Innovation, Fostering
Corporate Entrepreneurship - You Decide
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Scenario, Your Role, Key Players
You are Betty. Based on the scenario above you should:
a. Explain to the bank exactly what is occurring at EZ.
b. Say nothing and continue the status quo.
c. Talk to Ryan and explain your concerns.
d. Give hints to the bank about EZ's situation.
e. Attempt to cover up the problems and stall the bank's auditors.
Activity
In Week 7, work with your team, compose a 2-3 page team paper based on each
of your individual answers describing what, ethically speaking, you would do if
faced with this scenario.
Submit only one team paper to the Week 7 Assignments Dropbox located on the
silver tab at the top of this page. For instructions on how to use the Dropbox, read
theseStep-by-Step Instructions or watch thisDropbox Tutorial.
See Syllabus/"Due Dates for Assignments & Exams" for due date information.
Grading Rubric:
Category
Points
Description
Understanding
60
Demonstrate a strong grasp of the problem at hand. Demonstrate understanding
of how the course concepts apply to the problem.
Analysis
60
2. Apply original thought to solving the business problem. Apply concepts from the
course material correctly toward solving the business problem.
Execution
20
Write your answer clearly and succinctly using strong organization and proper
grammar. Use citations correctly.
Total
140
A quality paper will meet or exceed all of the above requirements.
BUSN412 – Week 7 You Decide Transcript
Scenario
Betty King is the new controller at EZdot.com. The previous controller was fired
for “incompetence.” Ezdot.com has some severe cash-flow problems that have
become exacerbated by the recent acquisition of another firm. The financials of
both EZ and the other firm are as clear. The new company has 450 employees
that have a “can do” attitude. EZ’s bank is seriously concerned about the
company’s viability. Betty discovers that her new boss, Ryan Roberts, who is EZ’s
president and major shareholder, is holding a substantial amount of checks from
customers in his desk without telling her. Ryan also plays with the firm’s float on a
daily basis. (Float is the money that is used on a day-to-day basis for operations.)
It’s close to tax time. The bank wants to know what is occurring and has a
meeting with Betty today.
Your Role
You are Betty King. Based on the scenario, you should:
1. Explain to the bank exactly what is occurring at EZ.
2. Say nothing and continue the status quo.
3. Talk to Ryan and explain your concerns.
4. Give hints to the bank about EZ’s situation.
5. Attempt to cover up the problems and stall the bank’s auditors.
Key Players Key Players
3. Text for Audio Recording
Ryan Roberts President
Yes, I am holding a substantial amount of checks from customers in my desk, but
what’s the problem with this? I’m the president and a major shareholder, so I
don’t think this should be a big concern for you.
John Smith Banker
It seems as though someone at EZ is playing with the firm’s float on a daily basis.
This is the money that is used on a day-to-day basis for operations. We have
some concerns here at the bank and want to get to the bottom of this at our
meeting today.
Activity:
Write a 2-3 page paper describing what, ethically speaking; you would do if faced
with this scenario.