Description: Suarez’s schedule and phone have blown up since he accidentally launched a Twitter campaign to make Miami the latest innovation hub in early December, when someone on the app suggested bringing Silicon Valley to the Sunshine State. His “How can I help?” response generated 2.3 million organic impressions alone, he says. Source: CNBC.com – video report… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Ethics & Social Responsibility
Opinion: We Built Google. This Is Not the Company We Want to Work For.
Description: Our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Jan 04, 2021 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/opinion/google-union.html?auth=login-email&login=email Questions for discussion: What is happening to Google as employees organize? How do you suggest management and employees deal with the issues facing the firm? Do… Read more »
Why Student Debt Is Crippling Entrepreneurship
Description: With Covid-19 battering the economy, helping aspiring business owners seems like a no-brainer. So, where’s the relief? Source: INC.com Date: Jan 04, 2021 Link: https://www.inc.com/magazine/202102/leigh-buchanan/student-loan-debt-entrepreneurship-millennial-startup-founders.html Questions for discussion: What are some of the obstacles to starting up a business, as described in this article? What lessons should entrepreneurial thinking students take away from the… Read more »
It’s no surprise that Amazon, Berkshire, JPM health venture Haven is disbanding: Experts
Description: The news that Haven, the joint health-care venture between Amazon (AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) and JPMorgan (JPM), will disband next month came as no surprise to many health care experts. Source: Yahoo.Finance.com – video report Date: Jan 04, 2021 Link: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/its-no-surprise-that-amazon-berkshire-jpm-health-venture-haven-is-disbanding-experts-213818212.html Questions for discussion: Why did Haven fail to disrupt the health care industry? How significant… Read more »
57% of workers support a mandatory Covid-19 vaccine for return to office: CNBC Survey
Description: A majority of workers (57%) in the latest CNBC|SurveyMonkey Workforce Happiness Survey say they would support a requirement that everyone at their workplace or office receive a Covid-19 vaccination soon after it becomes available to the public. Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Dec 18, 2020 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/18/require-covid-19-vaccine-for-work-return-heres-what-americans-say.html Questions for discussion: What does this research suggest about employees’… Read more »
How to Manage Performance Evaluations in the Work-From-Home Era
Description: A guide for managers in assessing 2020 and looking ahead to next year. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Dec 21, 2020 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/business/work-performance-evaluations-covid.html Questions for discussion: What are the key recommendations to managers? Do you think these make sense? What else would you suggest?
Businesses likely can’t force staff to get COVID vaccine, experts warn
Description: As the first shipments of coronavirus vaccines are injected into the arms of frontline workers across the country, important conversations have begun about how this will impact the return to work, or the continuation of work, for millions of Canadians. Source: BNNBloomberg.com – video report Date: Dec 30, 2020 Link: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/businesses-likely-can-t-force-staff-to-get-covid-vaccine-experts-warn-1.1540979 Questions for discussion:… Read more »
Tesla publishes its first ever diversity report revealing leadership is 83% male and 59% White
Description: Elon Musk’s electric car and renewable energy company published its first ever diversity report late Friday. It said that Tesla has a “majority minority” U.S. workforce overall, but 83% of employees in leadership roles are men and 59% are White. Source: CNBC.com – video report Date: Dec 04, 2020 Link: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/04/tesla-publishes-its-first-diversity-report-here-are-the-key-numbers.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail Questions for discussion: Summarize the… Read more »
Blunders Eroded U.S. Confidence in Early Vaccine Front-Runner
Description: The Oxford-AstraZeneca effort held great promise to help arrest the pandemic. But a series of miscues caused it to fall behind in the U.S. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Dec 08, 2020 Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/business/covid-vaccine-oxford-astrazeneca.html Questions for discussion: How was the issue of transparency a factor in the story? Do you think either the firm or health… Read more »
Hudson’s Bay Co asks court to intervene against Ontario government’s lockdown order
Description: Restrictions banning in-store shopping in Toronto and Peel called ‘unreasonable,’ ‘irrational’ and ‘arbitrary’ Source: FinancialPost.com Date: Dec 10, 2020 Link: https://financialpost.com/news/retail-marketing/hudsons-bay-co-asks-court-to-intervene-against-ontario-governments-lockdown-order Questions for discussion: What are the management issues related to taking this position? How might some employees respond? What would you advise retailers during this shopping season?
