Chris Intro to Business 9/22/10 BP and Ethics This case is about the safety problems faced by BP‚ the third-largest oil and gas producer in the world. On March 23‚ 2005‚ an explosion at BP’s Texas City refinery resulted in one of the most serious workplace accidents in the US. An investigation by The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) uncovered many safety lapses at the Texas City refinery. BP was accused of endangering its workers by compromising on process safety due
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Executive Summary On April 20th 2010 bp had a major oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico coined the “Deepwater Horizon Incident” in which eleven (11) person’s loss their lives. This incident negatively affected the company’s brand and bp brand equity plummeted by $7.4bn‚ representing a 61% fall (Brand Finance 2010). BPTT which is a subsidiary of bp Global had to treat with the negative impact of this crisis on the local market while keeping its reputation‚ bp brand and local aspiration alive and
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Walmart Stakeholders 3/18/2013 Walmart is one of the largest retailers in the world that is steadily growing and seeking to develop ways of meeting the needs of their stakeholders. In our textbook‚ stakeholders are defined as “people who stand to gain or lose by the policies and activities of a business and whose concerns the business needs to address” (Nickels‚ McHugh & McHugh‚ 2009). Walmart has several internal and external stakeholders that keep the business at the top of the retail
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F2000G342 Seoul 2000 FISITA World Automotive Congress June 12-15‚ 2000‚ Seoul‚ Korea Theoretical Study of Steering Effort - using Autosim Park Il Rae Chassis Design Team 1‚ 700‚ YangJung‚ Buk-Ku‚ Ulsan‚ Korea The steering effort is an important characteristic of vehicles because it influences driver comfort directly. Steering effort and steering feel are of interest in this report. This report used AutoSim to model the vehicle and to prepare simulation code. FORTRAN was used to analyse
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Petroleum (BP) has won acclaims and awards for CSR. But Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar (Times of India‚ Bangalore edition 2010) argued in his article that BP has created the greatest environmental disaster in history which includes its out-of-control Macondo deep-sea well. Gulf of Mexico oil leak is another big historical issue. BP has created a huge image building campaign of ‘beyond petroleum’ critics say that BP has now spindling with ‘beyond problems’ (NJ Watson‚ Petroleum Economist‚ 2009). BP states
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P2 describe the different stakeholders who influence the purpose of two contrasting businesses In this task I am going to be writing a business report regarding Carlsberg and Capital Foods showing the different types of stakeholders‚ which include within the two organisations. It will show how the stakeholders influence within the two businesses‚ and how they set their own objectives towards the companies. CARLSBERG Customers Customers are the people who buy the products and sell them‚ or use
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Stakeholders The world ’ ’stakeholder ’ ’ was first used in an internal memorandum at the Stanford Research Institute in 1963. It refers to "those groups without whose support the organizations would cease to exist". There are two types of stakeholders‚ primary and secondary. The first type are those that engage in economic transactions with the business - stockholders‚ customers‚ suppliers‚ creditors and employees. The second type are those who do not engaged in direct economic exchange with
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Stakeholders 1st Business: Nike The aim of this business is to provide and develop products for athletes of every ability and to make sure their products help athletes reach their potential. They also want to create business opportunities that set them apart from competition and also to provide value for their stakeholders. Having objectives in a business is very important because it brings goals that the business needs to reach and also allows the company to be united. With Nike being a huge
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Summarization of “The Effort Effect” In the “Effort Effect” of Stanford Magazine‚ Marina Krakovsky writes about being born with greatness vs. learning the skills of becoming great. She discusses how the idea of belief about innate ability and that nothing comes to ones being with out hard work. This is a controversial topic that is brought to attention throughout the article including the study of the UK soccer team by Professor Dweck exclaims‚ the soccer culture said‚ “The most talented of players
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British Petroleum Company (BP) and Amoco Corporation are two of the largest oil and gas firms in the world. In spite of the intense rivalry between the two companies for several years‚ they decided to merge in 1990. The upstream business of BP which is exploration and manufacturing of crude oil accounted for 68% of its revenues while that for Amoco accounted for 60%. BP Amoco after the merger in 1998‚ their business involved exploration and production of crude oil. This was their upstream business
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