EMBA Theme IIICorporate IT Management Assignment 3: None of Our Business‚ Roberta A. Fusaro‚ a 2004 HBR Case Study I. RFID Definition Radio Frequency Identification RFID is an established data-carrying technology used throughout industry. Data relating to an item is stored on a tag‚ which is attached to the item. The tag is activated by radio waves emitted from a reader. Once activated‚ the tag sends data stored in its memory relating to the item back to the reader. This data can then
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Brief review and explanation of Effort Justification Effort Justification is a theory of social psychology stemming from Festinger ’s (1957) theory of Cognitive Dissonance. Effort justification theory states that people have tendency to attribute a greater value to an outcome they had to put effort into obtaining. Cognitive Dissonance theory attempts to explain people ’s change of attitudes or beliefs when they face a dissonance between contradicting cognitions. Effort Justification theory is only
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In 2010‚ BP encountered two predicaments. The first was stopping a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an oilrig exploded. The second was persuading people that they were doing just so. The company damaged its environmentally friendly image when the Deepwater Horizon oilrig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20‚ 2010‚ eventually creating the largest marine oil spill in history. Eleven workers were killed‚ an estimated 6‚000 barrels of oil leaked per day‚ and years of irreversible damage
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“Sustainability” is definitely not a new term or a new concept to me but it is only related to urban development in Hong Kong. After starting this course‚ I discovered that my horizon needed to be boarded to global level. I can see that sustainability can be related to many things‚ not only urban development but also business and our life style‚ how we live can seriously impact how long the planet can last for‚ and even would affect our descendants’ life. I was impressed by the video “the story
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Wal-Mart: The Future Is Sustainability Wal-Mart is one of the most influential businesses in the world. However‚ with power comes scandal and backlash. Ethical issues with management‚ and treatment of its workers and suppliers has been on the front line of un-popular public relations for Wal-Mart. This paper will analyze Wal-Mart’s attitudes to its women employees focusing on the lawsuit of Dukes vs. Wal-Mart‚ the alleged sweat shop work overseas producing merchandise sold in the Wal-Mart stores
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The Economic Impact of the BP Oil Spill In April of 2010‚ a British Petroleum operated oil drilling rig off the Gulf of Mexico‚ the Deepwater Horizon‚ exploded suddenly after high pressure methane gas from the oil well rose to the drilling rig‚ causing it to ignite and then sink to the bottom of the ocean floor. The explosion caused a sea-floor level oil blowout‚ and crude oil was leaked into the surrounding water for three months before a solution was found. After eighty-seven long days‚ the wellhead
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Deep Horizon oil rig occurred in the Gulf of Mexico Near Louisiana. Fifteen out the of one hundred fifty men who were on board were injured. Approximately two days later‚ the rig sang and oil began spewing. The oil leaked for over one hundred days. The BP oil disaster in the gulf has posed a threat on the people and the environment that surround the oil spill. The effects of offshore drilling can be catastrophic‚ especially after seeing what has happened in the Gulf. There are many concerns that come
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Analysis – BP America‚ Inc.: The Prudhoe Bay Oil Spill and a Commitment to “Being Green” Michelle L. Staton Case Summary The Angelo-Persian Oil Company was formed in 1909 by a wealthy Englishman named William Knox D’Arcy. It did not operate under the British Petroleum (BP) name until 1954. In early 1959‚ BP discovered hydrocarbons under the North Sea and Alaska‚ and found the West Sole gas field in 1965 which was the first oil exploration success in British waters. In 1969‚ BP discovered
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more on the importance of sustainability. Riordan’s four plants in China‚ California‚ Georgia‚ and Michigan are looking to improve its sustainability practices company-wide. The following will summarize the objectives‚ targets‚ and programs that must be focused on and implemented in order for the company to flourish as an environmentally safe business. In the same way‚ technologies‚ strategies‚ products‚ or practices Riordan Manufacturing may use to increase sustainability will be identified. Lastly
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Efforts to Reduce the Budget Deficit ECO 203 May 6‚ 2013 Efforts to Reduce the Budget Deficit In view of these possible surprises‚ fiscal adjustment plans must thus be designed in a way that makes them sufficiently flexible to accommodate the impact of shocks‚ but also sufficiently resilient so as to preserve their medium-term fiscal consolidation objectives even when the underlying economic environment turns out differently than initially expected‚ Mauro (2011).
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