MONDAY 6/13

IC212
TODAY:
-Quiz #6 due.
-The Corporation Chapter 1 discussion questions due.
-We discussed Drucker Chapter 7.
-We began a discussion of The Corporation Chapter 1.
-We watched the following clips from The Corporation documentary:
Clip 1
Clip 2
-You took Quiz#7.

HOMEWORK:
-Natasha P will bring in a current event for us to discuss.
-Read The Corporation Chapter 2 & answer the following Discussion Questions:
1) Business leaders today say their companies care about more than profit & loss, that they feel responsible to society as a whole, not just to their shareholders. Do you agree/disagree? Why?
2) Thanks to Pfizer, how is the Flushing Avenue subway station safer?
3) What is "capitalism with a conscience?"
4) Executives who choose social & environmental goals over profits--who try to act morally--are, in fact, immoral. Why?
5) Explain the Dodge v. Ford case.
6) What does the "best interests of the corporation" principle state?
7) What is the goal of the Kyoto Protocol?
8) What oil-drilling site do astronauts report being able to see from space at night?
9) What has made Anita Roddick's business, the Body Shop, unusual?
10) What does it mean to diagnose a corporation as psychopathic?