Questions from Business Ethics

Q: The United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of

The United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of interferon beta-1b (brand name Betaseron®) made it the first multiple sclerosis (MS) treatment to get FDA approval in 25 years. Betas...

Q: Recent election cycles have brought new challenges for corporations and their boards

Recent election cycles have brought new challenges for corporations and their boards of directors. For example, in the 2016 presidential election campaign, candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled a prescri...

Q: “Big Pharma” is the name the business press uses for

“Big Pharma” is the name the business press uses for the gigantic pharmaceutical industry. Most of us are familiar with Big Business and Big Government. Now Big Pharma continues to be in the news and...

Q: The McDonald’s coffee spill is the most famous consumer lawsuit in the

The McDonald’s coffee spill is the most famous consumer lawsuit in the world. Everyone knows about this case, and the details involved in it continue to be debated in many different venues—classrooms,...

Q: Drawing on the notions of moral, amoral, and immoral management

Drawing on the notions of moral, amoral, and immoral management introduced in Chapter 7, categorize your impressions of (a) Nestle, in the infant formula controversy; (b) Union Carbide, in the Bhopal...

Q: One of the major challenges businesses face with respect to government regulations

One of the major challenges businesses face with respect to government regulations is that often compliance with existing regulations during an earlier period does not protect them against expensive p...

Q: Often, state and local governments use tax cuts (abatements)

Often, state and local governments use tax cuts (abatements) or other types of incentives to entice firms to locate within their area. While tax abatements remain useful incentives to help governments...

Q: Global supply chains have been wrought with controversy for decades now.

Global supply chains have been wrought with controversy for decades now. Images and stories of global manufacturing, and particularly textile manufacturing, have highlighted issues of unsafe working c...

Q: When Jeff Lebesch and Kim Jordan expanded from home beer brewing to

When Jeff Lebesch and Kim Jordan expanded from home beer brewing to commercial production in 1991, they envisioned two goals for their new company: they believed they could produce world-class beers a...

Q: Lack of safe drinking water is a global issue. One of

Lack of safe drinking water is a global issue. One of the United Nations Millennium goals is to “halve, by 2015, the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and...