after it admitted that it made payments to a terrorist organization for protection of its operations in Columbia. Teaching suggestions I find that this case works well when each ethical theory is used separately to analyze the situation. I begin by asking the students to summarize the key utilitarian notions and then apply those concepts and principles to the case facts. After a thorough analysis‚ we then define deontology and apply it to the case facts. Finally‚ we do the same with virtue ethics.
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The Business Research Process Amy Portugue RES/351 October 15‚ 2012 Steve German The Business Research Process I am the current employee of a world renowned company in the agricultural industry. John Deere has been a long standing name for over 175 years. The combine plant located in East Moline‚ Illinois just celebrated its 100th anniversary. I have worked at the combine plant for almost 5 years now and have experienced several dilemmas within the company. Many of our dilemmas come from
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computers. The company currently operates as a multinational corporation in North and South America‚ Europe‚ Southeast Asia‚ Australia‚ and the Middle East. Sales activities are regionally structured. The factories are in St. Louis and Newark (NJ); the most important research activities take place in St. Louis. Production‚ R & D‚ personnel and finance are coordinated at the American head office. Business units handle the regional sales responsibilities. This decentralized structure does have to
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In the most basic sense‚ a payment is the exchange of money‚ or exchange items of value between parties. According to Wikipedia‚ a payment system on the other hand is regarded as a “system” because it employs methods to substitute physical money for items such as cheques and letters of credits. In recent years‚ the electronic information age has led to the development of a vast number of new electronic payment methods that include electronic banking cards‚ electronic fund transfer systems and
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1. What are the core business processes1 (i.e. high level; major business and financial services) performed at Bank of America as part of its product and service offerings? Core Bank of America Business Process: Activities within the Core Process people management recruiting performance management staff development payroll benefits administration financial management general ledger accounts payable accounts receivable reporting and compliance cash management asset management supply-chain management
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Case 1 Vicro Communications (a pseudonym is used in order to mask the identity of the organization) sought to reengineer its basic business processes with the aid of data-centric enterprise software. Vicro management wanted to rely on the software to improve the performance of its business processes. It was hoped that the software would increase information sharing‚ process efficiency‚ standardization of IT platforms‚ and data mining/warehousing capabilities. Unfortunately for Vicro‚ the reengineering
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Computers in Human Behavior 28 (2012) 129–142 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Computers in Human Behavior journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/comphumbeh Mobile payment services adoption across time: An empirical study of the effects of behavioral beliefs‚ social influences‚ and personal traits Shuiqing Yang a‚ Yaobin Lu a‚⇑‚ Sumeet Gupta b‚ Yuzhi Cao a‚ Rui Zhang c a School of Management‚ Huazhong University of Science and Technology‚ Wuhan 430074‚ PR China
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Business Research Process Business research is a systematic process that provides businesses with the information to guide and help make better decisions. A business will plan‚ acquire‚ and analyze data and provide that information to management so that they can make decisions and changes to maximize performance (Cooper & Schindler‚ 2011). I personally have worked in several positions that have required me to perform quite a bit of research. I worked in the marketing department of my old company
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How America Should Be Langston Hughes writes “Let America Be America Again”. A poem that is about what America means to Hughes. This man just wants everyone to have equal opportunity in America. Everyone has a different opinion on what America should be‚ and I am going to be talking about what this dream meant to Langston Hughes‚ what I think this poem means to most Americans‚ and what this poem means to me‚ which are all very different opinions. First‚ I’m going to be explaining about what
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Why do we want to do business in China? The answer is simple. We are still in a recession‚ and our unemployment rate is high. We have to explore alterative market to make money. What makes China an attractive market? China is attractive because there is big money to be made. [pic] Figure 1 Comparing Population of US and China in Millions China is the second largest economy in the world (Barboza‚ 2010) with 1.3 billion in population. That is more than four times the
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