Working Paper # 03-115 Rev. 09/04 Conflicts of Interest and the Case of Auditor Independence: Moral Seduction and Strategic Issue Cycling Don A. Moore Carnegie Mellon University Philip E. Tetlock Haas School of Business Lloyd Tanlu Harvard Business School Max H. Bazerman Harvard Business School This paper has benefited from the feedback of Art Brief‚ George Loewenstein‚ and three anonymous reviewers of an earlier version of the paper. This paper was supported by a grant from
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“Functional Conflict vs Dysfunctional Conflict Functional conflict Conflict is constructive when it improves the quality of decisions‚ stimulates creativity‚ innovation and encourages interest and curiosity among group members. Conflict challenges the status quo that resulted in the creation of new ideas‚ promotes reassessment of group goals and activities‚ and increases the probability that the group will respond to change. It supports the goals of the group and improve performance
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SWOT -Opportunities One of the opportunities presented to Starbucks is the growth in coffee market. In the United States‚ specialty coffee sector accounts for approximately 15% of the total retail coffee market which is equivalent to $21billion. In 2005‚ the retail coffee market was valued to be around $23billion and specialty coffee accounted for nearly 45% of the market and was still expected to grow. Starbuck has a 40% market share in the specialty coffee sector which provides an indication
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1.Who are the biggest customers? The most profitable? The most attractive potential customers? Do the customers fall into any logical groups based on needs‚ motivations‚ or characteristics? Please make clear what your answers are based on and state used sources. In the past Nokia customers are consist of high-end‚ mid-end‚ and lower-end customers. But when the market was penetrated by IOS from Apple and Android from Google slowly Nokia is losing their market share. Now their biggest customers
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BUS 488- STRATEGY PORSCHE NG KEE YANG ANDREW B1114179 1. Strategic Profiles and Case Analysis Purpose Porsche’s mission‚ vision and its reputation are clouded after the take over of VW group. VW group oversaw the take over of other famous brands like‚ Bentley‚ Buggati and Lamborghini. Under the new leadership and direction from the top brass‚ the first move was to restructure Porsche. The restructuring saw Porsche’s top executives sent to other car brands in VW group to share expertise
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Please use the Green Scantron Chapter 4 Perception‚ Attribution‚ and the Management of Diversity 1) When managers become aware of evidence of potential discrimination‚ they should do all of the following EXCEPT ________. A) pay immediate attention to the problem B) act proactively to address the potential problem C) review the organization’s policies and practices D) treat the potential discriminator unfairly 2) ________ is whatever the perceiver is trying to make sense of. A) The
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inventory to grow with the continuous product variety increase ?"‚ "how is it possible to increase the service if the forecast is always wrong ?"‚ "how can I improve if I’m always busy in fire fighting"‚... The way to improve performance breaking the conflicts hidden in these trade offs exists: Solving Efeso experimented and refined it during 20 years experience in the Supply Chain of many different industrial sectors. Four pillars belong to World Class Supply Chain Management: * World Class Supply
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out for the well-being and happiness of the employees. There is a delicate balance to giving the employees what they would like to maintain a productive and happy work environment‚ and providing compensation that the company deems acceptable. Conflict The company is working towards negotiating the employee’s benefits to continue to be Pro Employee and be a union free environment with the possibilities of the Employee Free Choice Act may be passed by the government. The EECA would enable working
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Our identity is constructed by‚ for example‚ the clothes we wear. Discuss the idea of a construction of identity within postmodernism using recommended texts. During the postmodernist era there was great emphasis on the movement of philosophy and social science as well as new influential styles of architecture‚ design and fashion. It was the development of the modernist era‚ which in the late 1950’s received criticism for being standardized and no longer suiting peoples lifestyles. The Machine
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“Peace is not absence of conflict‚ it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means‚” this quote by Ronald Regan shows that conflict is an inevitable part of society. Conflict is a fundamental part of life and is always present for every individual throughout their everyday life. Encountering conflict means to face or handle conflict and the ways in which we go about trying to resolve it. Different types of conflict can be local‚ national‚ religious‚ political‚ economic or cultural. There are
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