Greg Steinhafel's Summary

Even though Target is ranked currently 36 in the fortune 500 companies and have over 1750 stores, they are still very susceptible to being a victim of a cyber attack. In 2013 Target fell victim to a security breach on their system. Roughly around Thanksgiving of 2013 someone had installed malware in Target’s security and payment system enabling the hackers to steal credit card and personal information. “Six months earlier the company began installing a $1.6 million malware detection tool made by the computer security firm FireEye, whose customers also include the CIA and the Pentagon.” (BloombergBusiness) In place was a very effective security system, but when the attacked happen on November 30, FireEye spotted the hackers and Bangalore, a third party cyber security company hired by Target alerted the IT team at corporate office in Minneapolis. There was no response from Target’s Corporate IT team and therefore led to the 40 million credit card numbers and 70 million addresses, phone numbers

Target CEO Brian Cornell states: “the situation is unacceptable and appointed veteran executive John Mulligan to find a fix” (SCDIgest Editoral Staff). Mulligan,

The Target Corporation has undergone many changes due to the 2013 security breach where hackers stole personal information from credit and debit cards of at least 70 million customers. Target sales and reputation has dropped from this instance, thus eliciting changes in their security systems, changes in management, and a few policy changes in handling customer information. With the public eye on the corporation’s handling of the situation, Target has been communicating these changes through various means. The changes they needed to communicate were informing customers of the security breach, addressing the bad press coverage to shareholders, downsizing of employees, and

In J. R. McNeill’s The World According to Jared Diamond McNeil is arguing that Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel has reasonable arguments for how geographical determinism assisted some continents in their success, but he makes it known the argument has many downfalls. McNeill’s arguments all lie under the umbrella of Diamond’s arguments being to large scale. McNeill makes many examples that show these holes.

In the article by Andy Schlafly metacommentary is present is this article numerous times, elaborating on previous statements made by president Trump to explain his prior statements. As an illustration, Schlafly explains the H-1B visa program in perfect detail by using his own form of metacommentary. Andy states, that the H-1B visa program that allows employers to bring in lower-cost foreign labor to fill American jobs. In the end, Andy does use his own language to explain in further detail his points he is trying to link for the audience, but none of the text book TSIS templates have been used. Unfortunately, Schlafly’s manner of connecting his thoughts provides no real template to attempt to replicate for future writings. In sum, I found

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Paul S. Martin, Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, University of California Press, 2005, Prologue and Chapter 2

I choose to talk about the Target Corporation, because it is a franchise where consumers constantly shop at for their grocery, home décor, and bathroom essentials. The Target brand is in the general merchandise retailing industry and was first established in 1962. Target’s mission statement states: “Our mission is to make Target your preferred shopping destination in all channels by delivering outstanding value, continuous innovation and exceptional guest experiences by consistently fulfilling our Expect More. Pay Less. ® brand promise” (Target Corp., n.d.). The company’s mission statement implies that Target is a store where consumers can get products for a reasonable price. Target is performing well despite of their security breach problem a couple of years ago. It does not follow Pfeffer’s principles to the key, but it is a high performing organization. Their goal is to provide affordable prices at their different full-service department stores. Target has 1,556 stores and is the fourth largest retailer in America. It ranks as the second discount retailer in America only Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. stands in their way (Target Corp., n.d.). In 2011 Target acquired the Zellers retail chain, at a cost of $1.8 billion dollars to its international expansion (Target Corp., n.d.).

With the way technology is now “if it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” says Frank Lloyd Wright. In other words, he is saying that some people would prefer to let every other limb in their body go to wasted and deteriorate, but they would be content since they would still have their finger to use a phone and or computer with. The way technology is advertised in today’s society has pressured its audience to feel as if they have to keep up and move at the speed that it develops in order to fit in to the society.

Target a large retail corporation that operates over 1,700 stores across the United States. They also operate as an online retailer at target.com. In 2012 the retailer earned more than $73 billion dollars in revenue and grew their sales by 5.1% from the previous year. Looking at the revenue and sales growth rate it is hard to fathom that more money could not be spent to ensure that consumer data is protected as much as possible. As information security specialists one of the worst things that can happen is our network gets infiltrated and customer information is stolen. On December 19, 2013 Target released a statement stating that they have had an information

Target has not disclosed much detail around the breach due to liability and legal issues but some information is available due to a leaked internal corporate report. The report included information by Verizon which was hired by Target to probe its networks for weaknesses days after the breach was

In December 2013, Target was attacked by a cyber-attack due to a data breach. Target is a widely known retailer that has millions of consumers flocking every day to the retailer to partake in the stores wonders. The Target Data Breach is now known as the largest data breach/attack surpassing the TJX data breach in 2007. “The second-biggest attack struck TJX Companies, the parent company of TJMaxx and Marshall’s, which said in 2007 that about 45 million credit cards and debit cards had been compromised.” (Timberg, Yang, & Tsukayama, 2013) The data breach occurred to Target was a strong swift kick to the guts to not only the retailer/corporation, but to employees and consumers. The December 2013 data breach, exposed Target in a way that many

Steingraber cares about exposing the environmental link to cancer. I really enjoyed watching this trailer, because I recently read in a book for another class that most types of cancer can be linked to environmental factors and it shocked me. Seeing that in print, in a legitimate book, and not just as a part of someone’s ideas floating around on the Internet… it surprised me. It kind of made me want to scream. If we know that many of the chemicals we are pumping into our environment are causing cancer, why aren’t we doing something about it? Why aren’t there insanely harsh consequences for companies who refuse to follow the current laws, and who contaminate the water and air? Too many big companies getting away with too much… I hope a lot of people see the movie and begin to understand how dire the situation is.

Steinhafel’s ability to effectively execute the three key managerial roles were both successful and unsuccessful. In my opinion, Steinhafel unsuccessfully executed the interpersonal role primarily because his interaction with the outside world was limited. Outside of the video posted on Target’s website, he did not exemplify leadership, interact with the employees or work with others who were not within Target’s corporation; which defines the interpersonal role (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). He chose to watch from behind the scenes while CFO Mr. Mulligan tackled the media and hearings conducted by Congress.

After reading the book Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William Ury, Getting past No is like a sequel, where the author tries to address the basic concern that each one of us faces while negotiating, the problem of other side being stubborn on a “NO” and not ready to negotiate when we are trying to adopt a principled negotiation approach.