Briefly answer the three questions based on the short minicase stories attached. Give detailed answers to the questions related to each case. Responses should be at least one paragraph per question and demonstrate knowledge and understanding gained from assigned reading.
MiniCase #12 Question: We learn that two Theranos executives, Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani, will face prison for committing fraud. Yet, not a single death was caused by Theranos’s medical devices. In contrast, over 1 million Americans have died of despair, with most of these deaths directly or indirectly related to opioid addictions, which started with OxyContin’s marketing push. None of of the Sacklers has been convicted, nor have they lost the billions they stashed away in overseas trusts. Where is the justice? How do you assess this situation, especially since many of the Sackler family members held similar executive positions at Purdue Pharma as Holmes and Balwani at Theranos? And both companies were private, not publicly owned stock companies
MiniCase #12 Question: Who is responsible for the opioid crisis: Purdue Pharma, the FDA, patients, people with a drug use disorder, or all of the above? Where lies the blame? Anand Giridharadas, New York Times beselling author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, concludes: “If you look a the way in which the opioid crisis killed people, it is a direct, malicious, forthright set of choices by various actors that predictable, reliably, foreseeably killed vary large numbers of people.” Do you agree with this statement? Discuss.
MiniCase #11 Question: Given its popularity, Chick-fil-A will eventually reach maturity in the United States. Although Chick-fil-A’s distinctive culture and approached traveled well beyond Georgia, can it succeed outside the United States? Do you think its unique culture, structure, and control are suitable for international expansion? Why or why not? Explain.