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    Cvs/Pharmacy Case Study

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    Organizational Context With over 9,500 stores in 48 states, CVS/Pharmacy is one of the subsidiaries of CVS Health a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Woonsocket Rhode Island (CVS Health.com, 2016). CVS Health was founded in 1963 and today is comprised of CVS/pharmacy, CVS/Caremark, CVS/MinuteClinic, and CVS/specialty each fulfilling a diverse role in supporting patient health. The CVS/Pharmacy distributes healthcare products, child care products, medical supplies and equipment, cosmetics and other such products (CVShealth.com, 2016). CVS/Pharmacy is a company that believes in their employees and takes pride operating as a team as their 225,000 employees service over 5 million customers daily, 1.7 billion prescription annually, and specialty drug revenue in excess of $31 billion (CVShealth.com, 2016). They strive to recognize and reward the efforts and contributions of every employee as they help their consumers to a path of better health. Vision Statement: CVS Pharmacy articulates their vision "We strive to improve the quality of human life." The image is to provide pharmaceutical based services to improve their consumer’s health (Alchin, 2015). Mission Statement: CVS/Pharmacy mission statement is: “Above all else...our mission is to improve the lives of those we serve by making innovative and high-quality health and pharmacy services safe, affordable and easy to access.” Their mission is to improve the health of their customer to through the easy and safe access of…

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    Blackstone Case Study

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    firm should do an IPO, outlined by the firm’s internal project group, included: • Permanent pool of inexpensive capital and a wider group of investors • Long-term orientation in compensation package to employees • Shares could be used as currency in transactions • The firm would become more reputable • Partners could monetize their ownership in the firm The firm also identified several drawbacks with going public, including: • Quarterly reporting requirements leading to higher costs…

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    It will make your company appeal to new customers by making your operations seem legitimate and credible. This additional credibility can also be important to attracting the additional capital investment you’re seeking. Your liability as the owner of the company would also change once you become an S-Corporation. As you operate right now, you, the owner, are entirely and personally responsible for any and all liabilities. Once you file the Articles of Incorporation in your state, along with…

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    set up to reduce the liability of the partnership in case of any malpractice lawsuits. Both a proprietorship and a partnership run the risk of being able to sell the practice once the owner or partners want to sell the business. These types of healthcare businesses are very specialized so there are limited amount of people of physicians that want to buy them. Small corporations are the third example of for-profit businesses. A small corporation requires a charter and can be either privately or…

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    Yugoslavia once approximated worker control socialism. 6. An old stage of capitalist development was globalized capitalism. 7. The phrase “laissez faire” means “to let people do as they choose”. 8. Capital is unrelated to private property. 9. John Locke believed that people have a natural right to private property. 10. Smith gave careful arguments for the view that humans are acquisitive creatures.…

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    Outside lobbying does not include the use of face-to-face exchanges between lobbyists and policymakers. Outside lobbying does include the use of campaign contributions to legislators who favor the interest group, the news media to influence policy makers, targeting group resources on key election races, the print media to influence policy makers. For a bill to pass in either chamber of Congress, it must receive the support of a simple majority of its members. Because of the inherent tension…

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    The foundations to organize company’s personnel are different between the public and the private sectors. These may also be different from one country to another or from one company to another according to the organization, the context of evolution and its environment. And from these foundations and values that are shared by all staff, a corporate culture is set. The corporate culture is a key variable to explain the daily life and strategic choices made by a social group. The corporate…

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    When corporations were first constructed, they were constructed with the goal of serving the investors rather than the management. Their primary objective was to “conduct business activities with a view toward enhancing corporate profit and shareholder gain.” A system of good faith was meant to govern them in which the only interests that were to be focused on were the interests of the corporation as a whole and on the shareholders. The system of governance that existed in corporations began…

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    corporations have to navigate to move their tax home overseas. “Section 7874 require companies that are seeking to change their parent companies 's country of incorporation to have 25 % of their employees, property, and income in that foreign country” (PWC). If they do not fit these requirements the new parent will be treated as a domestic corporation for US tax purposes, and the corporate inversion would be considered a failure because it did not achieve the goal of limiting the taxation by…

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    CSR is corporate social responsibility. By the abbreviation, CSR means corporation becomes responsible towards society. The actual definition of CSR is not yet clear. But according to E U Commission [(2002) 347final:5] “CSR is a concept where by companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction with their stakeholders on a voluntary basis”. CSR is based on the concept of do “good business” for a good society- today and for the next…

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