1) Mishandling of customers goods and making way at times with some valuables: Baggage mishandling remains a large and growing headache for the industry‚ estimated in the billions of dollars for lost luggage claims and recovery service costs. The costs of passenger frustration are harder to nail down‚ but just as worrying. At times customer’s luggage is mishandled to the extent the customer has to discard the suitcase or the carton in which the goods were in
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William Voisin Professor Mazpule Psyc. 2001 June 5th‚ 2013 BP (Beyond Petroleum) focuses on sustainability 1) Based on the history of the company‚ why did BP get involved in so much questionable conduct? The reason why BP got involved in so much questionable conducts is because at first they didn’t want to spend the money on fixing the stuff. They have been ignoring all these red flags and at the end they ended up spending much money. They could of saved a lot of money if they had fixed
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Reflections on Monitoring and Evaluation[1] Revisiting M&E I believe that monitoring and evaluation systems of organizations should be like the mirror of the Queen (Snow White’s adversary). That mirror always presented the truth‚ no matter what circumstance. As such‚ it was a device that could release people from their illusions. It was a gadget that could open people’s minds and could enlighten them to seek meaningful changes in their lives. In the same manner‚ monitoring and evaluation
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J. of Acc. Ed. 29 (2011) 142–152 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect J. of Acc. Ed. journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jaccedu Teaching and Educational note An approach to detecting plagiarism in spreadsheet assignments: A digital answer to digital cheating Anil Singh a‚⇑‚ George Mangalaraj b‚ Aakash Taneja c a b c School of Business‚ University of Texas at Brownsville‚ 80 Fort Brown‚ Brownsville‚ TX 78520‚ United States College of Business and Technology
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Monitoring and Detecting Abnormal Behavior in Mobile Cloud Infrastructure ABSTRACT Recently‚ several mobile services are changing to cloud-based mobile services with richer communications and higher flexibility. We present a new mobile cloud infrastructure that combines mobile devices and cloud services. This new infrastructure provides virtual mobile instances through cloud computing. To commercialize new services with this infrastructure
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Running Head: UNETHICAL BUSINESS PRACTICES Unethical Business Practices in Corporation The Business Enterprise – BUS508 Professor Karmetria Burton Strayer University Lisa Brooks May 9‚ 2009 Abstract Many companies demonstrated questionable business ethics. It is my belief that businesses are so consumed with being competitive between their buyers and sellers until they lose site honesty and integrity. I have presented three various types of businesses which all exemplified
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CASE BACKGROUND PUMA AG (PUMA) is a German-based company that produces high-end sportswear. According to PUMA’s financial report‚ in the year 2007‚ PUMA earned a profit of $510‚944‚031 excluding taxes. Although the company’s headquarters is in Germany ‚ its main production sites are in China and other developing countries. While the company can afford to invest millions of dollars in advertising‚ behind the scenes‚ workers who manufacture its products still earn the bare minimum. In the last
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Unethical Credit Card Practices The ethics of credit card companies has to be in question. They are one of the few businesses that can change the rules on you and there is currently nothing you can do about. The credit industry is not your friend. They want to get you to borrow money from them and to keep you in debt for as long as possible. This way they have a constant flow of revenue through the interest payments‚ late charge fees and over the limit fees. They have many practices and charges
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Supplier Sustainability Involvement Program The Philips Supplier Sustainability Involvement Program is built on five pillars: create commitment by setting out our requirements; getting suppliers to understand our requirements and monitoring identified risk suppliers through audits; working with suppliers to resolve issues; and engaging stakeholders. Building block 1: Create commitment In 2012 we updated the Philips Supplier sustainability declaration in accordance with the updated EICC
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Wellbutrin and Avandia and included a criminal fine of $1 billion. The remaining $2 billion involves fines in connection with a civil settlement over the sales and marketing practices of the blockbuster asthma drug Advair and several other drugs (NY Times). GSK have not only violated the rules made by the FDA but also committed basic unethical behavior. Even though the $3 billion may seem like a large amount‚ it represent only a small portion of what Glaxo made on the drugs. According to IMS Health‚ Glaxo’s
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