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to imagine they can be anything?” (“Imagine the Possibilities”). Mattel has created an inspiring and thought provoking ad. The ad, titled “Imagine the Possibilities,” was developed and published by Mattel as a promotion for Barbie Dolls. The ad was originally published on Mattel’s YouTube channel (Rose). To create a successful advertisement, Mattel targeted a particular audience. A very specific purpose was kept in mind as Mattel created the ad. Rhetorical appeals were boldly used throughout the

however the leaders at Mattel do. Mattel’s leaders know they have an ethical and social responsibility to their customers. Their goal is to produce toys that are not only safe but also made at ethically run production facilities. Leaders of companies that have an ethical corporate culture, have an easier time making ethical and socially responsible choices. The leaders are more focused on the effects their actions have on the stakeholders than on the financial gains. Case

The first Barbie was created in March 1959 by the American business women Ruth Handler and was manufactured by the toy company Mattel Inc. The creator of the famous Barbie dolls, Ruth Handler, got her inspiration for the dolls from a German doll called Bild Lilli. She named the new doll she created after her daughter, Barbara. Since the release, Mattel has sold over one billion Barbie dolls. Barbie has since changed her body size to match what was desirable or to help different shaped girls to accept

aged between six and twelve express a deep concern towards their current body image or their possible future weight gain. Consumers have criticized companies like Mattel over the years for their Barbie line of products above all; perpetuate female phantasm of perfection, which is physically unattainable. As a result of this, Mattel has given their Barbie dolls a makeover which includes four different body shapes, seven different skin colors, twenty-two eye colors, and twenty-four hairstyles in

For sure, little girls more often than not are prone to fantasize about their future and how they will turn out to be when they’re grown up. The future for each little girl is a world full of challenges, surprises and expectations, not to mention fear and excitement. In other words, the future is not yet seen in a girl’s mind but, she wants to get a glimpse of it, that is why, playing with dolls and girly items are a little girl’s attempts to fantasize or at least get an idea of what she will look

Children’s Toys Lead, when ingested or inhaled, is an extremely harmful substance – particularly to children under the age of six. Consequently, the manufacturing of toys with lead based paint is extremely dangerous. In 2007, Chinese manufacturing company Mattel was forced to recall 967,000 toys due to the use of lead paint, according to an article written by Louis Story in the New York Times. Regardless of lead’s ability to better maintain a toys appearance and longevity, lead is a serious health risk to

grown up accessories as the other adult dolls. As soon as Barbie was introduced to the public, her mature body horrified many adult females. Mothers said they would not allow their child to play with Barbie because they were wary of her sex appeal. Mattel conducted a study with mothers and daughters before they introduced Barbie. Barbie's sexy

Mattel, Inc is a billion-dollar corporation that designs, manufactures and markets a broad variety of toy products. Like many before and several after, Mattel lost their way for a short time and was caught off-guard by an investigative report aired by NBC’s news program (Sethi, Veral, Shapiro, & Emelianova, 2011, p. 486). This interview

Barbie was manufactured by Mattel for small children to create an imagination about the immense world that the doll has. In 1952, the inspiration for America’s most famous doll was a German doll named Lilli. However, the creation of Lilli was not intended for the doll to be played with by children. Lilli was made for adults and gag toys. March 9th 1959, the Barbie doll was first introduced by the Mattel toy company (Latson, 2015). Since then, according to Ashley Alexander’s article “Barbie Product

1. Using Figure 2.3, describe the context facing Mattel. What driving forces are affecting the toy industry? Continual change, vanishing distance and compressed time is what is driving the toy industry. It mentions in the case study that Hasbro is failing to adapt by being unable to make timely strategic decisions. Hasbro has dedicated too much of their resources in the television and movie sector only to abandon their successful board gaming business. (Coulter, 2013, p. 49) Our text expresses all