Food Waste Sustainably Sourced Products Strategy 2 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 10 11 11 12 12 12 13 13 15 15 15 16 17 17 19 20 21 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 29 30 30 30 31 31 Corporate Sustainability Report – January 2009 From Jim Sinegal President & CEO‚ Costco Wholesale Corporation We’re trying to build a company that’s going to be here 50 to 60 years from now. We believe we have an obligation to all of Costco’s stakeholders to run our business in such a way that we will achieve solid long-term results
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In 1983‚ Costco Wholesale Corporation‚ the fourth-largest retailer in the United States‚ was founded by former Price Club executive‚ Jim Sinegal‚ and lawyer Jeffrey Brotman. Costco focuses on selling products at low prices in bulk packaging and focuses mostly to large families and small businesses. They sell products like flat-screen TVs‚ gallon jugs of mayonnaise‚ and coffins. Costco operates 556 stores worldwide: 405 in the United States‚ 77 in Canada‚ 31 in Mexico‚ 21 in the United Kingdom‚
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David Irias Psychology 101 Stanford experiment 4-13-2015 The research experiment was conducted in 1971 by Phillip Zimbardo and some of his colleagues. They would build a mock prison with fake guards‚ fake prisoners‚ even a fake warden; all of this being conducted in a fake jail house where Phillip and his colleagues would observe everything from afar. The participants were chosen from a group of volunteers that had no criminal background‚ had no psychological issues‚ and had no extreme medical conditions
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Part B: Report The Stanford Prison experiment was conducted to study the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard. It raised many speculations over the violation of basic ethical principles during the study. The study was shut down after six days rather than the two weeks planned‚ because of it’s impressive outcome. The experiment was unethical because the subjects were physically and emotionally harmed. The participants that played the role of the guards in the prison‚ took
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Lormejuste‚ Falisha The Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Philip Zimbardo was aimed at investigating how an individual’s environment would affect their behavior. To simplify‚ Zimbardo wanted to know if a bad environment would negatively impact an individual or if their inner “goodness” would allow for them to overcome behaviors conducive to a bad environment. The results of the experiment were quite shocking; it was found that the environment ultimately affected how individuals behave--the
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system‚ the one set up from the organisation. It is normally used by medium or large sized organization. The organization that I have chosen is Costco limited. I chose this organisation because they use different types of information systems and it is an important system for their company. They are a really big and successful organisation. Costco are a wholesale store too‚ which is where the EDI comes in as they use it to contact their suppliers and also used with the retailers. The organisations
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Looking Back on the Stanford Prison Experiment By: Adrian Gottwein The Stanford Prison Experiment was an experiment conducted by a psychologist known as Philip Zimbardo. Philip Zimbardo was seeking answers as to how people (he selected college students) would act under the influence of an imaginary prison situation. What he found would surprise and amaze us even forty years after its conclusion. The Stanford Prison Experiment was carried out by psychologically healthy college students chosen
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Costco:Internal / External Analysis Table of Contents INTERNAL ANALYSYS: • About Costco • Mission Statement • Corporate Governance & Stakeholder Management • Locations • Strategic Objective • Primary Activities • Support Activities • Costco Membership • Financial • Net Income • Net Sales • Membership Fees • Gross Margin • Selling‚ General & Administrative Expenses • Cash Flows • Expansion Plans • Conclusion EXTERNAL ANALYSIS • Demographics • Socio-cultural • Political/Legal
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Psychology 270 - 03 Homework Assignment 1 Prison Experiment (100 Pts) Go to the following site:http://www.prisonexp.org/. Click on Begin SlideShow at the bottom of the page. Read through the article and watch the video in entirety. Respond to all questions below. 1. If you were a guard in this scenario‚ what type of guard would you have become? Why? 2. What prevented "good guards" from objecting to or countermanding the orders from “tough” or “bad guards”?
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This study was conducted by Professor Phillip Zimbardo at Stanford University in 1971. Zimbardo wanted to find out if a situation can control the person or can an individual’s beliefs‚ attitude and values would allow one to rise above their current situation. He wanted to look more in-depth in the behavioral and sociological consequences in the roles of the guard and prisoner. Also‚ he wanted to find out why and how social situations can overwhelm people. In order to find study subjects‚ Zimbardo
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