Final Paper Assignment

See also: MBA 527 Syllabus | Short Papers/Case Analyses | Decision Table

Due: March 15, 5:30 p.m.

This paper has two overall parts. The first part is to identify the moral considerations you believe are the most important generally, and why you think they are the most important in your decision-making process. This can be related to your personal ethical code, using statements in the code as examples, but this is not necessary. As part of this section you should also discuss which considerations, if any, are basically unimportant to you, and why that is the case. In this way you are describing your decision-making framework to me.

In the second part of the paper, I want you to use the framework you described in the first part to analyze the DuPont case. In this analysis you need to take me through the process of making a decision regarding what Joe Glas should do in his situation at the end of the case. You should include a brief summary of the major issues that he faces, discuss the important stakeholders in the decision, and then analyze alternatives using appropriate considerations. Most likely this would include the considerations you identified as important in the first part of the paper. However, others may become important in this specific decision, and if so you should explain why these became important. You need also, of course, to tell me your final decision. Include a discussion of whether this decision is also best from a bottom-line business perspective. In all parts, be clear, complete, and logical.

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