BUSN435-24s

Contributed by: Dr. B

1) Contributors to Uber’s revenue growth explained 2) “Uber has developed algorithms for tailoring customer prices based on what they believe individual customers would be willing to pay and tailoring payments to individual drivers so they are as low as possible to get them to accept trips.” 3) Saw this on Bluesky (social media service) from a marketing prof, whose students wonder how this can be legal

Submitted by: Dr. b

1. Workers in Cambodia exposed to toxic fumes in Cambodia brick making company
2. Waste being burned is from 19 international brands (including Adidas and Walmart
3. Workers, including a pregnant woman, report not feeling well

Submitted by: Dr. b

1) hair product marketed toward women of color 2) “National Institutes of Health study that found women who used the products multiple times a year were more than twice as likely to develop uterine cancer” 3) failure to inform and negligence

Submitted by: Dr. B

1. The Chamberlain Group has forced customers to subscribe to their garage door capabilities as a subscription. This is for people who already purchased this product from the.
2. “…The myQ app is garbage – it’s literally just a big button to open and close the door without access via a widget, the Home app, or Shortcuts. Oh, and it has ads too…”
3. There’s such a thing as software as a service (where you don’t buy the software, but instead subscribe to it). Now there’s garage door as a service?

Contributed by: Dr. B

1) Black accountants are underrepresented in the accounting field 2) They experience microaggressions, which impact their work 3) These experiences negatively impact their view of the profession and raise their desire to leave their jobs

Contributed by: Dr. B

1) Voluntary recall of 30k lbs of chicken 2) One minor injury so far 3) Reports of bendable pieces of metal found in chicken

Contributed by: Dr. B

1) Only 4% of companies meet UN climate target guidelines 2) Net zero tracker keeps track of companies’ and government entities’ targets 3) Corporate targets from Forbes2000 index companies had jumped 40% to 1,003 in October 2023

Contributed by: Dr. B

3 key takeaways:

1) How "good" organizations can lead to bad employee behavior, due to four forces: updward, downward, backward, and forward. 2) Effects of the gold digger, high-jump bar, retreating-cat, forbidden-fruit, cheese slider, moving-spotlight, repeat-prescription, and keeping-up-appearances. 3) It's a paradox when goodness breads badness. "The more ethical an organization becomes, the higher, in some respects, is the likelihood of unethical behavior.

Contributed by: Dr. B

3 key takeaways:

1) Recognition is essential 2) Contributes to well being 3) Two types of recognition: a) status recognition, capacity recognition