What is the price of a small (called tall for that upbeat feel) Starbucks regular coffee ? Well, the Pike Place Roast does does come under $1.60 but it doesn't matter as most people order something much grander and spent over $6 on average per visit in 2008. Starbucks re-organized under founder Howard Schultz andContinue reading “Starbucks:raises prices promotes “Create jobs for USA””
Category Archives: Corporate Social Responsibility
College Text Book Rentals: Chegg is like Netflix for the supply chain- but a social cause marketer at the front end
Ask any US college student and they’ll tell you how expensive college books are. To come up with a working textbook rental model for this $10 billion segment of the book market is just brilliant for Chegg.com. At the back end Chegg.com has a Netflix type model for logistics. It even has former Netflix Chief Operating Officer Tom Dillon to manage the logistics and distribution (as of January 4, 2011) .
Supply Chain CSR: tracing child labor in growing cocoa beans for chocolates
Just as we get into the holiday mood and enjoy chocolates the focus is on where the cocoa beans come from that go into making chocolate that brings so much holiday cheer to the affluent- worldwide. The BBC Story highlights Nestle's efforts in trying to bring traceability to the labor aspects of the cocoa beanContinue reading “Supply Chain CSR: tracing child labor in growing cocoa beans for chocolates”
Occupy Wall Street goes global-tipping point for Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)
The global spread of the occupy Wall Street movement is a tipping point for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) . Just check out the CBS News Video report from yesterday that includes Pete from NYU who is planning to drop out of his Finance program to help manage the funds of the movement. "Economic justice" isContinue reading “Occupy Wall Street goes global-tipping point for Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR)”
News Corp: Democratization arrives as privacy is breached
The News Corp scandal just seems to grow and grow. Allegations of phone hacking in the UK led to the closure of the oldest British tabloid "News of the World." The no ethics approach of those involved might put the acquisition of the British pay TV channel BSkyB by News Corp on hold . RupertContinue reading “News Corp: Democratization arrives as privacy is breached”
Dealing with nuclear power risks
http://abcnews.go.com/assets/player/walt2.6/flash/SFP_Walt_2_65.swf The Los Alamos wildfare is making headlines as concerns rise about damage to the nuclear lab. Wildfires are more predictable (brush,dry,summer) than earthquakes as in Fukushima,Japan.The question that the rest of the world is asking is if Americans and Japanese are scrambling to deal with natural disasters and nuclerar installations then what aboutContinue reading “Dealing with nuclear power risks”
Entertainment: video game industry three times music and double movie industry
Here are the numbers of the three industries reported on CBS: Music Industry $6.9 Billion Movie Industry $ 10.6 Billion Video Game Industry $23 Billion In fact it is one industry that has booming employment in Texas as people take to video games to escape from thoughts of the slow economy. But frankly, the numbersContinue reading “Entertainment: video game industry three times music and double movie industry”
Where are the variations in healthcare costs? Family of four spending doubles in nine years
According to the Milliman Inc. "Milliman Medical Index -MMI " US families of four are paying double of what they paid($9,235) in 2002 today at $19,393. The family expenses have gone up by 7.3% from 2010 numbers that sure is more than double of the average US inflation rate.Left alone this increase is going toContinue reading “Where are the variations in healthcare costs? Family of four spending doubles in nine years”
Healthcare innovation: treating elderly dementia patients in nursing homes
The elderly in nursing homes are particularly vulnerable patients, entirely dependent on the good sense and good will of professional care givers. Hence the question of giving anti-psychotic drugs to aggressive dementia patients to calm them down and basically give less trouble to care givers. As much as 88% of these wrong prescriptions are claimedContinue reading “Healthcare innovation: treating elderly dementia patients in nursing homes”
What can you learn at a McDonald’s job or McJob ? Plenty…
With 50,000 jobs on National Hiring Day there were long lines of applicants today at McDonald's what with high persisting unemployment. The McJob is mocked in popular culture because it is seen as "flipping burgers" or saying hackneyed cross-selling lines like "Do you want fries with that?" Given that McDonald's have come forward with jobsContinue reading “What can you learn at a McDonald’s job or McJob ? Plenty…”