So what will your business degree have taught you if you do this? It must be OK to do the wrong things to justify a possibly higher grade. Stupid workers, business owners, consumers and shareholders, letting us rip them off like that.Īt least your class isn't probably named BUSINESS ETHICS, because there should be no doubt in a class like that whether you should game the system or not. Now dig up The ENRON tapes where their energy traders were laughing their asses off on the phone while they were screwing millions of hardworking people (including many college student) by causing them to lose their jobs when energy bills tripled in a short period of time - causing rolling electric blackouts during the hot weather. 'It looks like we weren't good enough to achieve first place, so let's look at options to manipulate the game by sacrificing the good future financial health of the company by loading it up with debt that will be used merely to payout a one-time cash windfall to stockholders in order to merely get ranked higher than we deserve in a business class.' 'Screw all the employees, their families, and future stockholders who are left holding the bag of toxic debt that you never even had plans to pay back.' is what you're asking, saying. The ENRON executives would be proud of you, if they weren't imprisoned or dead by now.

If anyone has seen how this sort of strategy works out, I’d really appreciate any help!

I’m just a little hesitant with wanting to go through with this, considering our performance in the simulation is a huge percentage of our final grade. Considering we don’t have a ton of wiggle room if we don’t hit projected profit, Is this too risky of a strategy for the final year? If we were to completely tank in the final year, would it have a huge impact on our final ranking? We’re currently in second place (out of 12) for the second year in a row, and have hovered around top 5 throughout the whole simulation. My group has kept our strategy mostly consistent in terms of product design, marketing, etc., but decided to drop all R&D expenditures and take out a huge 10-yr loan to issue a dividend totaling about 98% of projected profit. I had a question regarding strategy: How risky is it to “go down in a blaze of glory”-esque strategy? I’m doing the glo-bus 2019 simulation for my capstone class and our final year decisions are due tonight.

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