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The founder of Nike is
Nick Young.
Michael Jordan.
Philip Knight.
Harsh Saini.
In the 1994 Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants case,
McDonald's counter-offered $225,000 to Stella Liebeck before the trial but she rejected it.
McDonald's apologized for the high temperature of its coffee and announced its intention to to reduce the temperature with immediate effect.
The compensatory damages decided by the jury were substantially higher than the punitive damages.
McDonald's did not show empathy towards Stella Liebeck and blamed the latter for injuring herself.
In 2003, India's Center for Science and Environment made the following allegation(s):
Coke and Pepsi were over consuming scarce water and polluting water sources.
Coke and Pepsi's drinks contained high levels of pesticide residue.
Coke was distributing its solid waste to farmers as fertilizer.
All of the above.
Indra Nooyi is/was
The director of Center for Science and Environment.
The Indian-born CEO of Pepsi.
The CSR director of Pepsi.
An renowned Indian actress who appeared in Coke's advertisements.
In 1997, Nike hired Andrew Young
To be its endorser and he appeared in three TV commercials.
To review the labour practices of its overseas factories.
To launch a PR campaign for Nike.
To be its marketing director.
The Stella Awards was created to
Honour Stella Liebeck and subsequent activists for their fights against big corporations.
Encourage wronged consumers to take legal actions against businesses.
Recognize each year's most outrageous lawsuit.
Make fun of corporations that manufacture or sell defective products.
Which of the following statements on the Coke and Pepsi case is CORRECT.
Coke faces water problems around the world because it is the key natural resource that goes into its products.
The criticism of Coke in India has been less severe compared to Pepsi, due to the higher popularity of the former.
In August 2007, Pepsi unveiled its "5-Pillar" growth strategy to strengthen its bonds with India.
In June 2007, Coke and Pepsi, together with IRC, formed the Indian Beverage Association, in an attempt to resolve the ongoing water issues.
When Nike first began operations,
Nike's shoes were manufactured in its own factories that were based n the United States.
It outsourced its production to factories based in the United States.
It contracted the manufacture of Nike's shoes to two firms in Japan.
It manufactured its shoes in its factories based in Vietnam and Indonesia.
In May 2001
Nike's corporate and social responsibility manager acknowledged that the firm may not have handled the sweatshop issues as well as it could.
UNITE, a member of AFL-CIO, representing 250,0000 workers in North America and Puerto Rico, was founded.
A presidential task force of industry and human rights representatives were given the job of addressing the sweatshop issue.
Students of the Nike Awareness Campaign protested against the University of North Carolina's contract with Nike.
The spokesman for the Specialty Coffee Association of America
Disagreed with McDonald concerning the high temperature of its coffee.
Said that based on customer complaints on McDonald's coffee temperature, the temperature may be too low.
Announced that McDonald's coffee conforms to industry temperature standards.
Stated that the 700 burnt complaints lodged against McDonald's - about 1 in every 24 million cups sold - were basically trivial.
The issue regarding low wages for the factory workers while endorsers receive millions of dollars in the NIke case deals with which type of justice?
Procedural
Compensatory
Retributive
Distributive
Everlane provides information on all of the following EXCEPT
The various cost components of a product.
The height and wearing size of its models.
Photos of the factories that make its products.
The owners of the factories that make its products.
None of the above. All of the above information is provided.
Assuming that Martin Winterkorn was in the know, the management of Volkswagen at the time of the Emission Test scandal would be best characterised as:
Moral management.
Immoral management.
Intentional amoral management.
Unintentional amoral management.
Unintentional immoral management.
In the Valhalla Scandal of 1987, the Enron Board, including CEO Kenneth Lay,
Hesitated initially but later fired Louis Borget and Tom Mastroeni and reported them to the authorities.
Gave a stern warning to Louis Borget and Tom Mastroeni and reduced their bonuses for the year.
Tightened internal controls and reduced the trading limits of the Valhalla traders.
Did not fire the Valhalla traders because Lay made it clear that they were making too much money to let them go.
Instructed Internal Audit to recommend new rules for authorizing and reporting bank accounts, trades, and unit financial results.
