Professor Elam

Wednesday May 10, 2017

Jose Cardenas, Roseann Palmer, Rosalinda Proscelle, Lura Zuniga – The Real Scoop on Blue Bell

What a clever title!  The students contrasted this case with the J & J recall of Tylenol. Instead Blue Bell used Creep Recall thinking it was a limited problem. The result was that Sid Bass loaned them $125 M to keep afloat otherwise the firm would be gone. Some cases involved death, and of course a considerable loss of prestige to BB.   The case also examines philosophical rationales for the actions.

Roshawanda Anderson How to Get Away with Murder

RA examines various food practices by grocers and MCD. MCD does not come away as the You Deserve a Break Today theme they play on tv, maybe you deserve to break from MCD. She also mentions the inhumane treatment of animals raised for food and how they are slaughtered.  One hundred years ago writer Upton Sinclair wrote a similar book titled

Erik Jasso  – A Bubble or a Ponzi Scheme

Erik wonders if the same bubbles formed in Year  2000 and Year  20058 are about to return. I suspect he is very very right but that it will be more of a gradual thing like Year 2000-2008. Nice job Erik!