Blood Banana Strategic Management 581 Blood Banana Running a business is about more than just making money. It requires adequate consideration to a number of issues‚ of which ethics is most certainly one. As a business grows and becomes more significant‚ it impacts the lives of people in so many ways. But without a clear understanding of business ethics‚ a company can lose its business by ruining its reputation and alienating employees‚ suppliers
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Blood Bananas: Chiquita In Columbia Overview: This complex case touches on fundamental questions of ethics and morality while displaying the inherent risks and rewards associated with operating a business abroad in geographies with histories of violence and civil unrest. The case exposes the challenges faced by Chiquita when trying to maintain production and profitability while also protecting its employees in a hostile situation. In this case‚ the lines of the ethics and morality are not as straightforward
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learned a very hard lesson about paying off terrorist groups to protect their employees. Over the past 25 years‚ no place has been more perilous for companies than Colombia‚ a country that is finally beginning to emerge from the effects its Colombian banana subsidiaries had made protection payments to terrorist groups from 1997 through 2004. The Justice Department began an investigation‚ focusing on the role and conduct of Chiquita and some of its officers in this criminal activity. Subsequently‚ Chiquita
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TB0245 Andreas Schotter Mary Teagarden Blood Bananas: Chiquita in Colombia No one laughs at the banana in its areas of origin. It is too serious a business‚ on which jobs and lives depend. Peter Chapman‚ Author of Jungle Capitalists. For Chiquita Brands International‚ a pioneer in the globalization of the banana industry‚ bananas are not only serious business‚ they represent an array of economic‚ social‚ environmental‚ political‚ and legal hassles. Since its founding more than a hundred years
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analysis Blood Bananas: Chiquita in Columbia As learned in class‚ the advantages of international business are great‚ but so are the risks. Some of the risks involve ethical issues as the ones Chiquita faced doing business in Columbia. Chiquita was the first to successfully internationalize banana trade; Chiquita did so by paying special attention to retail development and followed industry trends. Their competitive advantage was acquired when the company revolutionalized the banana trade by using
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Case Write-up for Blood Bananas What do you think were root causes for Chiquita’s actions in Columbia? 1. First of all‚ they don’t want to do business in unstable environment. The terrorism groups need that money to do violence‚ so Chiquita can do business in peace. It is a business to exchange peace by money. 2. The local government and its army cannot protect the company’s land and employees. These reasons cause Chiquita to pay money to the terrorism groups. Do you think Chiquita
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BUSA 4980 • Strategic Management • Fall 2013 Assignment – Blood Bananas: Chiquita in Colombia Access: Students have to purchase a copy of the case from Harvard Business School Publishing. Please follow the link below to access the case study‚ which will cost $3.95. https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/22949615 Description: Chiquita Brands International and its leaders learned a very hard lesson about paying off terrorist groups to protect their employees. Over the past 25 years‚ no place
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Summer 2013 Case Report: Blood Bananas: Chiquita in Colombia BUSA 4980 Chiquita Brands international was founded in 1899 after the merger of United Fruit Company and the Boston Fruit Company. As bananas be came more of a staple in every home so do Chiquita Bananas. Bananas are know to mainly grown in tropical places like Central America‚ Africa and Southeast Asia. Chiquita decided to have operations out of Colombia. During this time there was turmoil in Colombia and different terror groups
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Week 11 Theme: Health What Are the Benefits of Eating Banana Peels? Bananas have been a highly cultivated fruit for thousands of years. Many species of primate consume the entire banana‚ peel and all‚ which may have led indigenous peoples to follow suit. Although not common practice in the West‚ peoples of Asian countries eat banana peels‚ but they are usually cooked in some capacity. They are not nearly as sweet as the flesh‚ but they are rich in some nutrients‚ especially potassium‚ and
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such as medical application‚ daily groceries carrying. Within the banana supply chain‚ plastic bags are utilized since the very in many stages for example at the packaging station‚ the bananas will be packed into cardboard boxes with an inlay of a plastic bag or at the wholesalers‚ three to five bananas will be wrapped in one plastic bag and the customer at the retailers will buy all those amounts. It is all known that after bananas are consumed‚ plastic bags will become wasted. There are already
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