“Dow Corning and the Silicone Breast Implant Controversy” Dow Corning Corporation is a silicone product manufacturer founded in 1943. After World War II it was one of the fastest-growing companies. By 1990 it manufactured 5000 products. They made the first breast implant in 1963. In a span of 30 years 2 million women received implants and Dow Corning manufactured 35 percent of them. In 1975 Dow Corning manufactured a second type of implant call Flo-gel mammaries which would more closely resemble
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Reinventing Your Business Model by Mark W. Johnson‚ Clayton M. Christensen‚ and Henning Kagermann In 2003‚ Apple introduced the iPod with the iTunes store‚ revolutionizing portable entertainment‚ creating a new market‚ and transforming the company. In just three years‚ the iPod/iTunes combination became a nearly $10 billion product‚ accounting for almost 50% of Apple’s revenue. Apple’s market capitalization catapulted from around $1 billion in early 2003 to over $150 billion by late 2007. This
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Individuals who spend a majority of the working day on the go tend to need access to certain information in real-time. Some of the most common occupations are sales‚ insurance‚ and telecommunications. In the case of Dow Corning‚ the sales force has been described as not adaptive to change unless it relates to increasing income and benefits time management. (O’Brien‚ & Marakas‚ 2011). Some of the advantages of implementing mobile Customer Relationship Management tools are having more information prior
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in your textbook and watching “Virtue Ethics‚” find a contemporary article showing how the theory of psychological egoism in a corporation resulted in an ethical dilemma. My example is the case of negligence against the Dow Corning Corporation. “The jury found that Dow Corning Corporation (DCC) had marketed to her a defective silicone gel-filled breast implants (SBI) that allegedly contributed to her autoimmune disorders” (Mascarenhas‚ 1995‚ p 44). Is there a way that the decision-making process
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ACC 557 Week 3 Discussion Questions.doc ACC 557 Week 3 Learning Team Assignment Ethical Challenges and Agency Issues.doc ACC 557 Week 4 Discussion Questions.doc ACC 557 Week 4 Individual Assignment Ethics of Penn Square Bank and the Dow Corning Bankruptcy.doc ACC 557 Week 5 Discussion Questions.doc ACC 557 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Internal Policies.doc ACC 557 Week 6 Discussion Questions.doc ACC 557 Week 6 Individual Assignment Economic and Ethical Issues of Pricing
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Overview of the Issue In the scenario given‚ without an alternative‚ OCF probably has to initiate changes in its capital structure to drive off hostile takeover attempts from Wickes. There are a few a ways the capital structure can be changed‚ i) recapitalize by retiring equity with debt (swap)‚ ii) simply assume more debt‚ iii) issue more shares‚ or iv)buy back shares. An under levered firm can increase its debt ratio by borrowing money and buying back stock or paying a super dividend to its stock
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Compensation Practice Lisa McCaulley Prof. Lezlie Banks BUS409 Compensation Management November 2‚ 2013 Company Description Owens-Corning (NYSE: OC)‚ a Fortune 500 Company for the last 59 years was established in 1938. They are a leading global producer of residential and commercial building materials‚ glass-fiber reinforcements and engineered materials for composite systems. OC is celebrating it’s 75th anniversary in 2013 and has over 15‚000 employees in 27 countries on five continents
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plant in Charleroi needs an upgrading and they have decided to look at it to see if it is better to outsource it or to upgrade the plant and continue to make it. Pyrex was first started in the early 1900’s by Corning Glass Works. It was made by mistake when Bessie Littleton the wife of a Corning chemist ask her husband to bring home s some strong shatterproof glass for her to use in the kitchen. What her husband did was bring two jars home‚ made of low- expansion glass. Bessie had cooked a sponge
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Electrical and Electronics‚ Telecom‚ and Automotive and Others sectors Geography: The APAC region‚ the Americas‚ and the EMEA region View our full TOC hereKey Regions EMEA APAC Americas Key Vendors Cookson Electronics Assembly Materials NV Dow Corning Corp. Henkel Corp. Honeywell International Inc. Laird Plc Other Prominent Vendors 3M Aavid Thermalloy Aegis Technology AI Technology Akasa Group AMETEK Specialty Metal Products AOS Thermal Compounds Arctic Silver Bergquist Cast-Coat
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Reinventing Your Business Model By Mark Johnson‚ Clayton Christensen & Henning Kagermann Summary Submitted by Tiffany The article “Reinventing Your Business Model” is focused on the importance of innovating business models as a means of providing new growth and opportunities for an organization. The three authors‚ Johnson‚ Christensen and Kagermann‚ provide a layout to demonstrate possibilities for an organization. The first step is to understand the definition of a business model. The
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