BA107 Social and Political Environment of Business

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BA107 Social and Political Environment of Business

• Week 15
• Wrap-up

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Agenda

• Please take 10 min to fill out Evaluation form
• Study strategy and hints
• Discussion questions a quick review
• QA

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The Final

• Bring 2 bluebooks, scantron, and pen
• The exam will look like the midterm
• but will be accumulative and longer 2/3 ¾ on
  2nd half, and ¼ -- 1/3 on 1st half
• and will mostly have debuts questions appeared
  in midterm essays and Paper 1 2 wont be in
  final
• Dont skip globalization
• And note that business history from 1st half has
  never been tested on
• You can start with discussion questions. And now
  lets go through them week by week.

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Week 10 Non-market environment of High Tech Spam

• Compare the nonmarket issues related to spam to
  those related to telemarketing. What are their
  similarities and differences?
• Compare the following two approaches to spam
  policies regulation industrial policy
• Take the position of a professional spammer. How
  might you respond to regulatory and industrial
  policy arguments for controlling spam?
• Take the position of the Direct Marketing
  Association and describe the activities your
  organization is doing or should be doing
  regarding spam.
• Take the position of Micrsoft. How effective are
  their lawsuits likely to be against spammers?
  Other nonmarket strategies?

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Week 10 continued

• Industrial policy
• Public polices that target selected sectors of
  the economy for protection, promotion, and
  development
• Intellectual property

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Week 11 Corporate governance WorldCom

• Whats wrong in WorldCom? What could the board
  have done with it?
• Compare the two models of corporate governance
  pros and cons
• Long-term vs. short-term
• Information

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Week 1213 Business Ethics

• McWane Corporation
• CSR of McWane vs. Acipco
• Ethical choices that a former plant manager at
  McWane could have made based on utilitarianism,
  rights, and justice
• File Sharing in the Music Industry

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Week 14 Globalization

• Nike case
• Why is Nike such a high-profile target for labor
  activists?
• How effective was Phil Knights Nike Plan
  announced at the National Press Club in 1998 in
  quieting its critics? In improving labor
  practices at its suppliers overseas factories?
• What additional steps, if any, should Nike take
  to respond to continuing criticism within the
  anti-sweatshop campaign?
• How should Nike respond to the criticism that it
  pays sports stars millions of to promote its
  products while its overseas suppliers pay their
  workers several dollars a day?
• What lessons do you draw from Nikes outsourcing
  problems for US firms that are relying on Indian
  call centers and other forms of service industry
  outsourcing? What is similar and what is
  different in the two situations?

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QA

• Thank you for the semester!
• Happy studying, good luck, and have a great
  summer!!!