Policy Extra Credit

Apply all the concepts we discussed in class in both the CSR chapter and corporate culture chapter on the Starbucks incident that took place few months ago. You MUST make a convincing, solid, integrative, and meaningful explanations and reasoning regarding the following:

1. why do you think such incident took place in the first place? I am not asking you for arbitrary answer or guess or random writings, I am asking you to look at this part of the question ” Apply all the concepts we discussed in class in both the CSR chapter and corporate culture chapter”.

2. What could have been done by the company that would have prevented such incident, again I am not asking you for arbitrary answer or guess or random writings, I am asking you to look at this part of the question ” Apply all the concepts we discussed in class in both the CSR chapter and corporate culture chapter”.

3. How do these incidents affect the firm? I am not asking you for arbitrary answer or guess or random writings, I am asking you to look at this part of the question ” Apply all the concepts we discussed in class in both the CSR chapter and corporate culture chapter”.

4. What are the strategic and financial value of corporate social responsibility and corporate culture. Illustrate this using the Starbucks case. I am not asking you for arbitrary answer or guess or random writings, I am asking you to look at this part of the question ” Apply all the concepts we discussed in class in both the CSR chapter and corporate culture chapter”. (Hint: what were the actions the company took after the incident, and how is that related to this very question?.

Book:Thompson, A., Peteraf, M., Gamble, J., and Strickland, A. Crafting and Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage, 21th or 20th edition. McGraw-Hill: Irwin, 2017.