Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, purchased the drug Daraprim and then promptly increased the price by more than 5,000 percent from $13.50 to $750 per pill. Besides this price-gouging move, he was recently arrested for securities fraud. As the investigation digs deeper, it is quite possible that:
a. there were no other ethical gray areas created in his company
b. he set ethical standards that inspired employees to shoot for higher critical
c. this CEO's unethical actions influenced other company employees to take unethical actions
Question:_ Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, purchased the drug Daraprim and then promptly increased the price by more than 5,000 percent from $13.50 to $750 per pill. Besides this price-gouging move, he was recently arrested for securities fraud. As the investigation digs deeper, it is quite possible that:
Answer:- c. this CEO's unethical actions influenced other company employees to take unethical actions
Reason:- It is quite common for the employees to follow the unethical practices of the senior managers
Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, purchased the drug Daraprim and then promptly increased the...
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