Strategic Management 10-05-2011 Vanessa Ackah 6144748 Eline van Es 6189466 Questions case study 4: News Corporation 1. What is the extent and type of diversity undertaken by NewsCorp? NewsCorp started with a local newspaper in Australia but was soon the owner of the only national newspaper of Australia and over 20 local newspapers. It had enough profitability to expand to the UK‚ where it acquired more publishers. In 1984 NewsCorp also moved to the US and made the first major product
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not only led to FBI investigations‚ but also led to the closing of one of the World’s largest and longest running English Newspapers‚ News of the World. These scandals have also brought media attention on the flaws of the management style of Rupert Murdoch and the company’s corporate governance. Many claim that the duality of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the Chairman of the Board weakened News Corp’s ability to respond to crisis. The poor handling of the scandals by management has undoubtedly
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Bibliography: Dickinson‚ T. (2011‚ august 3). Rupert Murdoch ’s American Scandals. Retrieved september 12‚ 2011‚ from http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rupert-murdochs-american-scandals-20110803: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rupert-murdochs-american-scandals-20110803 EarthTalk. (2010‚ June 26). The Controversy Over Triclosan in Consumer Products. Retrieved september 12‚ 2011‚ from http://business-ethics
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Layne Johnson Dr. Scott Austin PHIL 251-502 December 6‚ 2011 Nietzsche and the Ascetic Ideal According to Friedrich Nietzsche in his third essay of “On the Genealogy of Morals” the ascetic ideal is nothing more than a false sense of moral codes and boundaries set to fill what would be an otherwise void part of the human mind. Nietzsche believes that any true philosopher will reject the notion of ascetic ideals as a creation of the misguided masses of society. He believed that to make sense of
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evolution. And the great philosopher Nietzsche is also one to disagree with Craig’s argument. However‚ even though Nietzsche and other philosophers provide many examples that help go against this argument‚ William Lone Craig has proven that the existence of moral values exist and therefore proves the existence of God. To help prove this argument‚ you must first take a look the other side from the important‚ well know philosopher Nietzsche himself. Nietzsche gives many reasons that lead to the nonexistence
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have to get rid of one or the other‚ but Nihilism theories seem to have a lot less explanatory power than do dualistic ones to me. In this paper I will argue that the clearest difference between Descartes and Nietzsche here is that whereas Descartes thought that ideas are passive‚ Nietzsche thought the opposite. Well‚ Descartes tries to prove the existence of God‚ which is the condition of establishing/ensuring an external world‚ including inter-subjectivity‚ in his view. God is a precondition of
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been attempted by successive writers. Jean-Paul Sartre and Friedrich Nietzsche both attempted to replace traditional morality with an ethics based on authenticity. This essay will discuss some of the initial similarities in their approaches‚ and identify where and why their approaches diverge. In the course of this examination‚ a number of prima facie objections to their theories will be examined‚ and I will argue that Nietzsche goes much further to create a positive morality than is usually thought
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into people’s homes‚ it would sidestep the constraints of geographic distance that had hitherto kept traditional broadcasters out of Asia. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch was so taken with this plan that his company‚ News Corporation‚ bought out Star’s founders for $825 million between 1993 and 1995. The results have not been quite what Murdoch expected. In its fiscal year ending June 30‚ 1999‚ Star reportedly lost $141 million‚ pretax‚ on revenues of $111 million. Losses in fiscal years 1996 through
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An issue in today’s society is discrimination. For consistency I will define discrimination as anything that denies a group of people from any universal privileges. A few examples of this would be racism‚ LGBT (Lesbian‚ Gay‚ Bi‚ Transgender) rights‚ and sexism. These issue have been present through all points in American and World History‚ normally putting the white adult heterosexual male as the most privileged and discriminations putting everyone else below him. In the twenty-first century measures
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Nietzsche And Marx Foresee Modern Alienation Beyond typical philosophers solely focused on acquiring knowledge‚ Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche were equally dedicated to actualizing their vision of a better society and way of life. Before our present state of modernism‚ Nietzsche and Marx were already prophesizing our societal flaws based on past wrongs done to humanity. The Spanish Inquisition‚ the African Slave Trade‚ and the Holocaust are all clear testaments to the detrimental effect that
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