STRATEGIC AUDIT WORKSHEET FOR APPLE INC. Prepared by: MGMT 4480 FALL 2009 I. CURRENT SITUATION A. Current Performance: Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2009 fourth quarter ended September 26‚ 2009. The Company posted revenue of $9.87 billion and a net quarterly profit of $1.67 billion. These results compare to revenue of $7.9 billion and net quarterly profit of $1.14 billion‚ in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 36.6 percent‚ up from 34.7 percent in the year-ago
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A key element of McDonald’s strategy since the beginning has been the policy of the company to own all property on which a McDonald’s outlet was built‚ regardless of whether that location was franchised or company-owned. Rental income varies from property to property‚ but it has been estimated that McDonald’s generates more money from its rent than from its franchise fees. McDonald’s real estate holdings and rent generated from these holdings are an important component of the company’s value and
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McDonald’s Ethics Or Lack of Ethics Dymirra G. Ambeau Test Drive College McDonald’s was founded in San Bernardino‚ CA in the year 1940 by Richard and Maurice McDonald. The two brothers sold their fast food restaurant to a milk shake salesman named Ray Kroc in the year of 1961. Kroc believed in conformity‚ uniformity and the ethic of mass production. Following the ethic of mass production Kroc began to use frozen beef patties and genetically-modified potatoes to ensure uniform taste. McDonald’s
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Studies 14 (3): 375–94. Armstrong‚ J. S.‚ and T. S. Overton. 1977. Estimating nonresponse bias in mail surveys Drucker‚ P. F. 1954. The practice of management. New York: Harper and Row. Baker‚ W. E.‚ and J. M. Sinkula. 2005. Environmental marketing strategy and firm performance: Effects on new product performance and market share Eisenhardt‚ K. M. 1989. Making fast strategic decisions in high velocity environments Armstrong‚ J. S. 1982. The value of formal planning for strategic decisions: Review of
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Business Ethics and Globalization University of Phoenix XMGT/216 Melissa Kearby In order to best describe moral problems linked with globalization‚ we need to assess what globalization is. Globalization is when nations join financially via education‚ plans‚ and society; which allow nations to observe themselves as a branch of one. Approximately what could be incorrect with this? In regards to ethics‚ a great deal could be incorrect with this statement. Management of workers‚ distribution
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making it worth $23 billion. Google is now widely recognized as the world’s largest search engine -- an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second. The world’s biggest‚ best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don’t be evil! The ethical policies and behaviour of Google can be understood better by analysing the four spheres of responsibilities. The analysis will aim at understanding the various dimensions of the ethical
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Jose Pavon AC1403380 Business Ethics C06.V.9.1 Assignment 4 C061 3/3/15 A right is encouraged by principles of justice and constitutes the legal and institutional order regulating human behavior in society. The basis of the law is social relations which determine its content and character. In other words‚ the law is a set of rules to resolve conflicts within a society. When speaking of law is fundamental to establish who their sources‚ the ideas and the grounds on which one to develop and establish
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Business Research Ethics Tanya Beeler Steve Roussas - RES/351 September 5‚ 2012 Abstract The Tuskegee syphilis study was an unethical research study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972 on a poor African American community in Tuskegee‚ Alabama. There were 600 men involved including 301 men that had already contracted syphilis and 299 men that had not. The ramifications of the unethical research that was conducted on these men affected their spouses‚ children and the
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CHAPTER 2 BUSINESS ETHICS CONCEPTS & CASES ADITYA AKBAR ENDRY M SINATRYA RIANDIKA SYACHRIAL SELY DWIYANI Based on Business Ethics Manuel G. Velasquez UTILITARIANISM ACTIONS AND POLICIES SHOULD BE EVALUATED ON THE BASIS OF THE BENEFITS AND COSTS THEY WILL IMPOSE ON SOCIETY. THE ONLY MORALLY RIGHT ACTION IN ANY SITUATION IS THAT WHOSE UTILITY IS GREATEST BY COMPARISON TO THE UTILITY OF ALL THE OTHER ALTERNATIVES . we begin with a discussion of apartheid-era South Africa and Caltex‚ an American
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Business Research Ethics Chris Swartz RES/351 Kim Gravelle October 27‚ 2014 One research project that I am familiar with is one that had happened at my place of employment. This project was about adding sewer lines to the township where I work. The township supervisors had contacted several companies to do the work‚ and also several different agencies to make sure that the work that was being done was being done correctly. The issue that came to light was the repayment for the work that
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