Dan Be Kim's Blog

When Kinder Morgan, the third largest energy company in North America, announced its plans to renew its bitumen pipelines running from Edmonton to Burnaby in B.C., they were faced with much opposition from several parties of which the most prominent was the First Nations. The question which arises as a result of this situation is: how will these oppositions caused by macroeconomic factors affect the company’s activities in the long run? Using the tool of a PESTLE analysis, political, social and economic factors can be taken into account to examine…read more

Immediately after reading Jodie’s blog on the “Life of babies in danger?!”, the first question which circled my mind was: Can all the blame be placed on the companies? In her blog, Jodie strongly expresses both her concern and anger towards several companies who have been neglecting the quality of their product (in this case, milk powder) in order to maximize profits. Indeed, it is alarming to think that money has become more important than the health of infant babies and their growth, and I cannot agree more with Jodie…read more

In her blog, HsiuCheng carelessly boasts about the newly launched iPhone 6 and optimistically predicts a healthy future for it in the highly competitive smartphone market. Boy, was she wrong. To begin with, her statement that both the camera and screen resolution improved on the iPhone 6 is false when it is put in relative terms. Due to the fact that the smartphone industry is such a competitive one, it no longer makes sense for firms to assert that there is a new & improved camera, or a crisper screen…read more