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Describe the difference between corporate philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability.

As a business professional, assume you have been invited as a guest speaker for the next managerial meeting for your organization. Senior leadership has expressed concerns about corporate social responsibility and how this may influence appropriate business practices.

After reading and viewing this week’s required resources, select three external resources of your choice (not Wikipedia). Then, develop a PowerPoint presentation for senior leadership that addresses the following:

  • Describe the difference between corporate philanthropy, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability.
  • Summarize the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Is it a fad, or is it here to stay? List at least three arguments for CSR and three arguments against CSR.
  • Elaborate on Drucker’s view of social responsibility as presented in the Cohen article. Should government be involved in taking care of social issues? Why or why not?
  • Provide examples of two corporations or companies that are making a positive social impact. Identify the corporation or business, the product(s) or service(s), the recipients, and the benefits.
  • Explain the concept of greenwashing. List at least one business or organization that has been involved in greenwashing.

Length:  10 slides, not including the title slide and the references slide.

Listed below are some tips for your slide presentation.

  1. Begin your presentation with a title slide that includes your name.

  2. Use plenty of white space on the slides.
  3. Provide a few appropriate graphics to break up the text.
  4. Use six bullets per slide or less.
  5. Use Times New Roman, 28 or 32-point font.
  6. Use the speaker’s notes area to include the information you want to share with your audience. The speaker’s notes must be coordinated with the information on the slides. Be sure to provide citations for your sources. Speaker’s Notes Length: 150-200 words for each slide
  7. Be creative. You can add audio to the presentation if you choose to do so; however, it is not required.
  8. Include references on your final slide(s).

Discuss what specific variables would be needed by that organization in order to forecast?

Forecasting

Successful organizations are also those who are able to make relatively accurate forecasts about the future needs (inventory, facilities, capacity, manufacturing, manpower) for the products produced or the services delivered.

Forecasting is an uncertain science since it calls for predictions but current theoretical and mathematical models (quantitative and qualitative) make it possible for organizations to predict with an acceptable margin of error. Think about it this way; without forecasting organizations would always be responding rather than acting.

  1. Select one industry from the list below: Bank, restaurant, health clinic/hospital, airline, or university.
  2. What specific variables would be needed by that organization in order to forecast? Be sure you explain why you selected each variable and why it is important to forecasting.
  3. Which variables are used for short-range forecasting, long-range forecasting, or for both. Make sure you support your selections

Which leadership theory best describes this individual’s leadership style?

Conduct a search to find a leader in health care.  As an idea, you might explore the websites of for-profit and non-profit organizations and find the bios of their CEOs. Select a leader in health care to further examine.  Which leadership theory best describes this individual’s leadership style?  What is the rationale that supports your findings? Provide specific examples to support your response.

Estimate the demand for beef as a function of the price of beef, the price of pork, disposable income, and population.

Assignment 4.2 Beef Demand Model

A meat packing company hires you to study the demand for beef. The attached data are

supplied. Complete the following tasks, then open the quiz “4.2 Beef Demand” and

complete it.

1. Estimate the demand for beef as a function of the price of beef, the price of pork,

disposable income, and population. Label this as Model 1. Which independent

variables have a significant impact on the demand for beef?

2. The coefficient for the price of beef indicates that a one-dollar increase in price

leads to how large a decrease in quantity demanded?

3. Estimate the demand for beef as a function of the price of beef, the price of pork,

and per capita disposable income (per capita disposable income=[disposable

income/population]; you have to create this variable from the data). Label this as

Model 2. Which independent variables have a significant impact on the demand

for beef?

4. Which Model fits the data better? Comment on why, using statistics from the

regression model.

5. The meat packing company gives you the following assumptions: Price of

beef=$2; price of pork=$2.50; disposable income=$1,000,000; and

population=225. Given this information, use model 1 to complete the following:

a. Estimate of beef demand and a 95% confidence interval around this

estimate.

b. Estimate total revenue

c. Estimate the following elasticities: Price elasticity, Cross elasticity (that

is, elasticity with respect to Pork price), income elasticity, and population

elasticity.

d. Should the meat packing company increase or decrease the price of beef?

Why or why not?

 

Demand for Beef
Year Q (millions of lbs) P Beef Per Lb ($) P Pork Per lb ($) Disp Inc (millions $) Pop (millions)
1975 19295 1.9 1.864 517250 182.76
1976 17535 2.312 1.944 566500 185.88
1977 19520 2.208 1.972 708250 189.12
1978 25622.5 1.68 2.072 631500 192.12
1979 26530 1.68 2.128 643500 195.6
1980 27745 1.64 1.776 688250 199.08
1981 29805 1.568 1.732 733000 202.68
1982 28950 1.648 1.916 771250 206.28
1983 26932.5 1.868 2.092 796250 209.88
1984 27592.5 1.892 1.792 843250 213.36
1985 30162.5 1.804 1.884 875000 216.84
1986 31530 1.708 1.916 911000 220.44
1987 31397.5 1.856 1.9 963250 223.8
1988 34122.5 1.668 1.772 1011500 227.04
1989 39107.5 1.592 1.772 1095250 230.28
1990 39987.5 1.732 2.128 1183000 233.16
1991 41775 1.768 2.276 1279750 235.92
1992 43130 1.804 2.06 1365750 238.44
1993 45675 1.892 2.036 1477500 240.84
1994 47185 1.968 2.3 1586000 243.24
1995 48722.5 1.96 2.276 1729250 245.88
1996 49242.5 2.188 1.992 1866000 248.4
1997 51277.5 2.304 2.58 2006250 250.56

Explain the message in Jean Bruller’s (Vercors’) Novel.

1) After reading this chapter: What is the message in Jean Bruller’s (Vercors’) Novel, And You Shall Know Them. What is its significance in a discussion of Neandertals?

2) How were archaic or pre-modern Homo sapiens anatomically different from Homo erectus? How were they culturally different?

please include a question of your own at the end.

Explain the positive impacts on an organization when its members exercise power and play political games within Mintzberg’s Political Game Playing framework?

Positive Group Initial Post:

  • What are the sources of power often seen in organizations? Be sure to give the definition of each source of power.
  • What are positive impacts on an organization when its members exercise power and play political games within Mintzberg’s Political Game Playing framework?  Give examples and/or your personal experiences regarding positive impacts.