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Assignment 2 Preparations

1. Read Chapter 2 in the Business Foundations – A Changing World text.

2. View the Chapter 2 Presentation available at the course homepage Presentations link.

3. Review the Consider Ethics and Social Responsibility boxed item on page 47 of the text.

4. Read the See for Yourself Videocase on page 66 and view the Warby Parker: An Affordable World Vision video available in the Assignment 2 folder at the course Blackboard Web site.

5. Review the Going Green Critical Thinking Exercise on page 47. Also review the Wall Street Journal articles “Chipotle’s Online Orders Surge, But Costs Hit Profit” dated April 21, 2020, “Chipotle Sees Online Sales Boost” dated October 22, 2019, and the MarketWatch article “ Chipotle to pay largest-ever food safety fine, $25 million, for illness outbreak that sickened 1,100” dated April 21, 2020.

Assignment 2 Requirements

1. Develop written responses for the three Consider Ethics and Social Responsibility Discussion Questions on page 52 of the text.

2. Develop written responses for the following Check Your Progress questions from page 64 in the textbook: CYP 3, 7, 8 and 9.

3. Develop written responses for the See for Yourself Videocase Discussion Questions found on page 67 of the text.

4. Develop written responses for the Going Green Exercise for the following questions:

a. Which stakeholders do you think most likely suffered adverse effects from this situation? Explain.

b. Is this situation an ethical issue or just incompetence? Discuss.

c. Is Chipotle now acting in a socially responsible manner? Discuss.