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Starbucks has managed to encourage corporate and social responsibility through various activities according to its principles and mission statement. The principle of ‘people first, profits last’ shows the importance of the consumers over a number of sales and profits. Therefore, the main reason as to why Starbucks is concerned with social responsibility is to ensure it maintains its good reputation to the customers and stakeholders. This is by ensuring they conserve the environment by recycling, being a great employer, and enhancing great relationships with suppliers and the community. The founder, Howard Schultz believed that a healthy working environment was ...

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Objective of the Discussion One of the most renowned marketing gurus Phillip Kotler argues that innovation is the most critical aspect of a successful business nowadays (Burk & Lemley, 2009). Practically all known markets are oversaturated with offers, and the only way to succeed is by inventing new products and services or by changing the business and the marketing methods. Realizing that applying traditional cost-cutting methods of reducing overheads and attracting the new customers is no longer effective, the business community becomes focused on considering innovative approaches as the only effective method of keeping afloat and expanding the market shares ( ...

Drugs can have many differing affects on people, whether their consumption leads to a positive or adverse response. All of this depends on the levels of enzymes in the body and how the variations of expression lead to these possible outcomes. The major theme of the two sources on this topic relate to the specific enzyme, CYP3A. CYP3A is a subfamily of cytochrome P450 enzymes, which serve to catalyze the addition of oxygen into molecules. Their ultimate role serves two spectrums: to convert foreign substances into less toxic products that can be eliminated from the body, or to convert ...