BUS 400: Business Responsibility and Sustainability Assignment

This assignment explores business responsibility and sustainability, focusing on the U.S. Department of Justice's efforts to improve corporate compliance programs. The student analyzes the Department's intent regarding corporate behavior and the use of criminal penalties against decision-makers. The assignment also examines Ben & Jerry's sustainability initiatives as a B Corp, assessing their feasibility and impact. The student argues that criminal penalties are necessary to deter corporate misconduct, emphasizing the importance of effective compliance programs and the integration of social and economic objectives in business practices. The assignment also highlights Ben & Jerry's commitment to using high-quality ingredients and supporting family farmers, demonstrating how sustainable practices align with the company's mission and values.

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BUSINESS RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
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Answer 1
The efforts of the Department shall be able to make a difference in relation to the
companies. Such efforts shall be able to increase the effectiveness and the adequacy in relation to
the compliance program of the companies and the corporate sectors. It shall also be able to
provide help and assistance in the implementation of an effective and an adequate compliance
program in relation to the corporation sector, or improve and develop the existing compliance
program. Penalties of criminal nature should be implemented against the decision-makers of the
corporate world. Implementation of such criminal penalties against the decision-makers shall
make the decision-makers much more cautious. When the decision-makers become cautious, it
shall rise to cautious and thoughtful decisions in favor of the businesses and corporates. Such
decisions shall benefit the companies, shareholders, agencies and the general players in the
industry. The criminal penalties against the decision-makers shall prevent any kind of
misconduct to advance their own benefit and cause damage or detriment to the company or
business in that process (Mc Laughlin & Buchanan, 2017).
The Justice Manual has been established in order to provide assistance to the prosecutors
in giving effect to informed decisions in relation to the fact that whether the compliance program
of any particular corporation was effective in an adequate manner. This particular document shall
help to determine the adequate type of prosecution or resolution, the monetary or pecuniary
penalty and the compliance obligations enclosed in any criminal resolution in relation to a
particular corporate entity. It must be recognized that the risk profile of each company and the
resolutions in order to cause reduction in the risks, warranted and particularized estimation and
assessment. Therefore, the prosecutors are able to evaluate the compliance programs in relation
to any corporation business (Jorgensen, 2018).

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Answer 2
Ben & Jerry’s is involved in the production of an extensive variability of superior and
exceptional ice cream and novelties in relation to ice cream. This company utilizes high-quality
constituents and ingredients, which includes cream and milk from the family farmers. These
farmers do not give their cows any kind of synthetic hormone such as rBGH. The products of
Ben and Jerry’s are distributed, dispersed and circulated all over the nation and also in particular
designated foreign nations. It is generally allocated to the convenience stores, grocery stores,
supermarkets, the franchise of Ben & Jerry’s that includes restaurants, scoop shops and other
locations (Musikanski, 2017).
The primary mission of Ben & Jerry’s is to create the best commodity that they can. They
mostly assure that their commodities are economically sustainable. Ben & Jerry’s attempt to give
effect to a positive and constructive social change, particularly in order to progress and develop
the new models in relation to economic justice, which may be both replicable as well as
sustainable.
Ben & Jerry’s follows an advanced, impartial, unbiased ‘Social Mission’ that pursues to
fulfil the needs of the humans. It seeks to remove and eradicate the prejudices in our
international, national and local communities. They have an extended supportive nonaggressive
initiatives, which pursue to attain peace. Considering the mission statement of Ben & Jerry’s, it
may be said that their sustainable efforts are impactful that they try to make the quality of the life
relating to the community essential in connection to and also inseparable from the commodities
and the financial or economic objectives (Pellegrin, 2016).

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References
Jorgensen, J. T. (2018). The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Turns 40:" Reflections on Walmart's
Enhanced Ethics & Compliance Program". Texas A&M Law Review, 5(1), 237-252.
Mc Laughlin, M. L., & Buchanan, J. (2017). Revenue Administration: Implementing a High-
Wealth Individual Compliance Program. International Monetary Fund.
Musikanski, L. (2017). How to Account for Sustainability: A simple guide to measuring and
managing. Routledge.
Pellegrin, K. L. (2016). Ben & Jerry's CEO Pay Cap and Corporate Social Responsibility: Sweet
Justice or Frozen Fiduciary?. SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals.