Section 1 Flashcards

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CSR

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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What are 4 Ethic Lenses

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Rights/Responsibilities (Duties)
Relationships (Fair Systems)
Result (Goals)
Reputation (Virtue)

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What are Rights?

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Rights or Responsibilities are to be honest and responsibly carry out duties

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What are Relationships?

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Be fair and consider those with no power

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What are Results?

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Be respectful as you do good and benefit others. Goals.

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What is Reputation?

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Be compassionate and virtuous

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Name 2 hedge fund billionaires guilty of insider trading

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Raj Rajaratnam (Galleon CEO)
Rajat Gupta (Director of GS, Head of McKinsey)
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How much did SAC Capital settle for

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1.8 billion

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What are some problems with CEO’s

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Lack of Transparency, accountability
Huge bonuses
Greed

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What did the peanut corporation of America do

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Salmonella contamination
9 deaths and 700+ illnesses
Largest recall in the nation
Its president was sentenced to 28 years on 09/21/2015

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Bernard Madoff’s Scheme

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Pyramid scheme to expand money by offering higher rates

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What is a dirty secret of Tesla

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Falsification of pollution test

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What did my boy martin shkreli do?

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Raise aids drug price from 13.50 to 750

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Name 4 considerations for Ethics

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More than legality
Values/principles
Standards of moral behavior
Ethics begins with each of us

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What is Social Responsibility

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Consequence of an action

A businesses concern for the welfare of society as a whole

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What are some Ethic check questions

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Is it Legal? (first step)
Is it Balanced? (a win-win attitude)
How will it make me feel about myself?

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Name a couple of U.S, ethical issues

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Improper Accounting Practices
Deceptive Sales/marketing practices
Conflicts of Interest
Lying on Reports
Dishonesty with customers
Lack of public trust
Bribes and kickbacks
Unfair treatment
Bank Fraud
Discrimination
Unsafe products
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What are ways to prevent unethical behavior?

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Increasing penalties for offenders
Employee education programs
publicity about those being punished 
Code of conduct
New laws
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What are factors influencing managerial ethics

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Individual (values, work background, personality)
Organizational (Reward system, philosophy,)
Environmental (competition, economy, social/culture)

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How would you foster ethical behavior?

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Leadership
Code of Ethics
Social Audit
Whistle Blowing

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What are some steps to improve Business Ethics

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Management support
Employee understanding
Management Training
Ethics office
Outsides must be informed
enforcement of ethics code
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How to curb growing income inequality

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Capital tax
Banking Regulation
Education in poor countries
Corporate Social Responsibility

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Why don’t we trust corporations?

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Unethical business practices by accounting firms
Under funding pension funds and 401(k)
Misleading communications
Under performing Board of directors
Excessive compensation for Executives
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What is your responsibility to society, investors, and suppliers?

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Fairness
Honesty - insider trading
Timely Action
Appropriate Compensation
Corporate Philanthropy
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How should a social audit be done?
By Company | By Outsiders
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International Ethics and Social Responsibility
Not Unique to U.S. Demand for social responsibility from global suppliers Joint initiative for socially responsible behavior from global suppliers
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What countries have top CR Corporate Responsibility
``` Japan UK France Germany US Italy Spain ```
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Most Admired Global Companies
``` General Electric Toyota Proctor and Gamble FedEx Johnson and Johnson ```
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Best Company Reputation
``` Johnson and Johnson 80.6 Coca Cola 79.7 Google 79.5 UPS 79.4 3M 78.8 ```
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What is a business
Activity seeking profit Provides Goods and services Satisfy standard of living
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What are objectives of a business
Survival Growth Social Responsibility and then Profit from all 3 combined
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Entrepreneurship
Matching risk with profit | Revenue - Expense = Profit (Loss)
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What are factors of prodcution
``` Land Labor Capital Knowledge Entrepreneurship ```
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What is a business environment
``` Global Business Economics and Legality Social Technology Competition ```
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What is TPP and who is it with
Trans-Pacific Partnership, China
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What is BRICs
Brazil Russia India China
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Name 4 factors in an competitive environment
Customer expectations speed restructure/ empower concern for natural environment
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How much did samsung pay apple
1.06 billion
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What are some consumer trends
``` conserve and save shopping online social media global preference and taste highly educated consumers ```
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Social Environment?
Diversity / multicultural Aging / graying of America Two-income families single-parent families
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Evolution of American Economy
Agricultural / manufacturing service industries collapse of financial industry 2008 trump economy
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What should a Government protect?
``` Consumers Workers Investors Environment Competition ```
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How does the government affect a business?
Overseer / Regulator Customer Tax Collector Role in 2009-10 Bank/Auto ownership
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What are scarce resources used for
Scarce resources are used to produces goods and services to distribute among competing groups/ individuals
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Four "whats" of an economic system
What is produced what amount is produced what is the method of output distribution what is the rate of economic growth
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Name Economic Theories
``` Adam Smith 1776 "invisible Hand" Excessive Deregulation (2001-2008) Great Recession (2007-2009) Subprime mortgage crisi ```
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What are 3 economic systems?
Communism (highly controlled) Socialism Capitalism (little control)
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Free market capitalism
private property profit/ ownership freedom of competition freedom of choice
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Socialism
Private and public ownership choices are limited creates social equality reduces individual incentive-brain drain
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Communism
public ownership | central planning / controlled economy
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Free-market Competition
``` Sellers one to many descending monopoly oligopoly monopolistic competition perfect competition ```
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Monopolistic competition
fast food | colleges
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oligopoly
automobiles
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monopoly
one seller con edison microsoft google
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what are limits to free markets
inequality of wealth greed compromises ethics potential environmental damages limitations push country towards socialism
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What are Business cycles
Recession Depression Recovery
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What are Business stabliziers
Fiscal Policy Monetary Policy National Debt
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Key economic indicators
GDP Unemployment Rate Price Indices CPI PPI
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What makes up CPI
``` Housing and Utilites Transportation Food and Beverage Medical Care Insurance Recreation Apparel Other ```
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From whom does the Government acquire currency
Individual Income taxes social security and payroll taxes excise taxes other
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Name some federal spending
``` Medicare and Medicaid Social Security Interest Defense Other ```
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Name some trades experienced by the US
``` Trade Deficit Balance of payments Foreign Direct Investment Domestic Job Loss Dumping ```
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Why trade with other nations
No nation can produce all its needs Mutually beneficial exchange Natural resources or technology
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Forces affecting trading Global Markets
``` Socio-cultural economic and financial legal and regulatory physical and environmental trade protectionism global e-commerce ```
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what are some cultural differences in global markets
``` language religion values and attitudes personal communication social structure aesthetics ```
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What are economics and financial forces
worldwide currency currency fluctuations floating exchange rates bartering /countertrading
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What is Protectionism
``` Mercantilism Tariffs (protective and revenue) Import Quota Embargo Nontariff barriers ```
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Name some trade agreements
``` General agreements on trade 1948 Uruguay round of GATT 1986 World Trade Organization 1995 North American Free Trade Agreement 1994 Central America Free Trade Agreement ```
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Five modes of entry into foreign markets
``` Indirect Exporting Direct Exporting Licensing Joint Ventures Foreign Direct Investment ```
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Strategies for reaching global markets
Franchising Strategic Alliances Contract Manufacturing Subsidiaries - MNC's
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Global Strategy Options
``` Customized Strategy (mcdonalds menu) Standardized Strategy ( logo advertising brand name) Global Strategy ```