market is unlikely to sustain two rival products . This may appear to be the ration-ale behind the Boeing Company’s much-publicized cancellation of the development of its "superjumbo‚" a whole new class of aircraft with room for 500 to 1‚000 passengers. "The market isn’t ready yet‚" announced John Hayhurst‚ general manager of Boeing’s "superjumbo" project‚ early last year. According to a new Boeing study‚ customers choosing direct flights in smaller jets‚ avoiding the hubs of Singapore‚ London’s
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Running head: LEADERSHIP ETHICS AT BOEING W. James McNerney‚ Jr. and Leadership Ethics at Boeing: Changing the Culture Starts with Leadership Development Stephen A. Kluckowski Dowling College Abstract W. James McNerney‚ Jr. became CEO of Boeing in 2005 at a time when Boeing was embroiled in numerous scandals‚ including one which involved his predecessor related to an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate in violation
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Lan Xia‚ Kent B. Monroe‚ & Jennifer L. Cox The Price Is Unfair! A Conceptual Framework of Price Fairness Perceptions Recent news coverage on pricing portrays the importance of price fairness. This article conceptually integrates the theoretical foundations of fairness perceptions and summarizes empirical findings on price fairness. The authors identify research issues and gaps in existing knowledge on buyers’ perceptions of price fairness. The article concludes with guidelines for managerial practice
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Edward Curtis Wells‚ Senior vice president of Boeing Edward Wells was born on August 26‚ 1910 in Boise Idaho. He graduated from Stanford university with a bachelors degree in engineering in 1931. Edward then joined boeings engineering staff the same year. In 1943‚ Wells was named Boeings cheif engineer. Wells was one of the key desingers of the B-17 flying fortress‚ one of the most iconic planes of WWII and the Boeing 747‚ which is still in use today. The B-17‚ possibly one of the best bombers of
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The short story “The Yellow Wall-paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be published in the Atlantic Monthly to heighten the awareness of the unfair treatment of women. In this short story the narrator’s husband John tries to control her. It actually all starts when John believes that his wife is not sick and he thinks that moving to a summer house for the summer will help his wife get better. The narrator does not agree with her husband but goes along with him because he is “a physician of
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inequitable and Meursault did not deserve a punishment as severe as death. When I started the novel I did not agree with that statement at all‚ it was understood that Meursault had shot the Arabian man‚ five times at that‚ how could one find this as an “unfair retribution”? As I kept reading though‚ I was almost mortified by the conduct and the overall atmosphere of the trial. There is no way to deny that the lawyers behavior towards the defendant was inexcusable. There was a clear injustice of Meursault’s
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Explain why the government might choose to grant a subsidy to producers of wheat. A subsidy is an amount of money paid by the government to a firm. There are many reasons why the government might choose to subsidize producers of wheat. In many countries‚ wheat is considered to be an essential good. The government would therefore hope for consumption of wheat to increase‚ which can be achieved through lower prices. If a subsidy is granted to producers of wheat‚ their costs of production will
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The unfair portrayal of young people in the media: The media‚ is an intimidating creation that has taken the stereotypes of teens‚ the way people view teens‚ and the way we view ourselves‚ and has turned it into a delusional farce. The media at this point in time portrays teenagers as generally bad. Well to be honest‚ not generally bad‚ but mostly horrible. We are seen as the cause for alarm and trouble in society. The media portrays us as manic delinquents with no solid past and no concrete future
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Case Study #1: Please refer to Mini Case Mini-Case “Is Your Chocolate the Result of Unfair Exploitation of Child Labor?” 1. Should labor practices in another country be a relevant consideration in international trade? Why or why not? Yes‚ labor practices in another country should be relevant for consideration in international trade. The reason for concern is labor and social advocates has increased imports from countries in which labor standards are apparently not
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Current Employment Relations Issue of Unfair Dismissal and Pregnancy A recent employment relations concern deals with unfair dismissal. When an employee is dismissed for certain statutory reasons‚ is inequitable and is incompatible to the merits of the situation; this phenomenon is known as unfair dismissal. This has been a long debated issue concerning all participants in the employment relationship. Investigation of the current employment relations issue of unfair dismissal found that emphasis is
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