Week5

The Fortune 500 article that I found to illustrate ethical behavior is “Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent Discusses Sustainable Business Practices at Bentley University Raytheon Lecture in Business Ethics.” Coca Cola was founded March 27, 1944 by John Pimberton who later sold it to Asa Griggs Candler. Thereafter, through excellent marketing tactics Griggs turned the product in demand.

This article consists of Kent s speaking to a group of college students about the practices of the company that has kept it thriving for more than 125 years. Such practices include job creation through entrepreneur businesses, reaching out to communities throughout the world and being mindful of natural resources such as water and crops while manufacturing their products (Hawthorth, 2012).

The act of the company described in the article exemplifies the great leadership of Kent. When reaching out to the communities, it shows the companies consciousness of the importance the customers contribution to their growth. It shows the company cares about their customer’s needs. Needless to say, the employment of employees throughout the world not only creates profit for the company, but builds communities through commerce and services.

Not many companies such as Coco Cola respect the importance of preserving our natural resources for the future. The earth is made of four major sections of sphere as follows: the Atmosphere which consists of natural gases; the hydrosphere where various bodies of water exists such as seas, ocean, lakes, rivers, glaciers; the lithosphere includes rocks and soils that make up the Earth’s crust and biosphere where life exists dependent of the other three spheres (.

ife screamsoceans, lithosphere and biosphere. Natural resources consists of those commodities that come from the physical environment of the earth. Such natural resources provide us with water, food and other necessities vial to our mere existence. (,p4) Because of human exploitation of such...