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Jan. 26

Connection between morality and ethics: 
  • Morality is personal feelings about wrong and right; ethics is codified
  • Morality influences how a person lives his or her life; ethics is broadly applicable to a group 
  • Morality has large stakes in terms of your nature as a person 
JetBlue case study: 
  • Summary: 
    • Ice storm caused shut down, people were stranded in airport terminals and on planes 
      • Some for a long time 
      • Possibly due to equipment 
      • Return would cause disruptions 
    • Short on employees to cover the situation 
    • Little substantive communication between JetBlue and passengers 
      • And internally 
      • Insufficient infrastructure 
    • Effects lasted for days
    • Other airlines didn’t seem to have this problem 
    • JetBlue lost a great deal of money due to operational shutdown 
    • Valentine’s Day 
    • JetBlue’s first storm 
  • Stakeholders: 
    • Passengers 
      • And their loved ones 
    • Investors 
    • Employees 
      • And their families 
    • Competitors 
      • Industry (airport, etc.) 
    • Lawyers, media 
    • Potential passengers 
    • Related businesses 
      • Business partners
Corporate Crisis Ideas: 
  • Uber lawsuits 
  • Jared from Subway 
  • Paula Deen PR 
  • Volkswagen 
  • Toyota recall 
  • Taco Bell beef contents 
  • NFL domestic abuse 
  • Facebook privacy
  • Ashley Madison security breach 
  • Amazon dynamic price snafu 
  • Chipotle 
  • Amtrack collision 
  • Sony Pictures hack 
  • GM recall 
  • Target data breach 
  • NFL Concussions 
  • Sub-prime mortgage crisis 
  • McDonald’s hot coffee spill
  • Starbucks holiday cups 
  • Takata airbag 
  • FIFA corruption
  • Donald Sterling 
  • NBA Carnival cruise ship