This week in class we discussed the Apple case study we prepared before class. Apple’s scandal with unfair labor practices lead us to an interesting conversation about companies moral duties, completely un-influenced by financial gain. While people knew about Apple’s scandal and called for change, their stock prices showed almost no change, and in fact have only continued to grow over the last decade. So if there is no financial obligation to reform their supply chain, as well as no governmental regulations from overseas countries, why should Apple change their practices as a company. In our other examples we have used in class to urge CSR, I have somewhat leaned on the argument that CSR inclusion can actually benefit a company’s financial prospects, and prevent loss from a future scandal. However, in Apple’s case, nothing happened when they were caught, so labor reform has to come from within; Apple has to feel a moral obligation. It is difficult to conceptualize an inhuman entity that has moral obligations, but since people are at the forefront of Apple’s decisions, I think it still applies.
During our internship seminar, we revamped our resume to include our internships in Milan. My boss graduated with an Industrial Engineering degree from Purdue and has worked in the industry in various forms. Because of this, I actually already asked him for some advice about how to word my experience in Milan depending on the avenue of ISE I want to go down. This included wording teh bullet points on my resume, which was extremely helpful since I already am applying to positions for next summer. We had a class check in about how our internships have gone and what we hope to do with our last couple days. This was a helpful reflection and allowed an introspective look on what I have accomplished so far.
I wrapped up two big projects this week I have been doing in conjunction for the last three or so weeks, which was a big relief. The main project was the collection and visualization of Google Analytics data that was about to be deleted on July 1st. I was able to save all of our clients data and the dashboards I created to function in a similar manner to the original application were finished. My boss spent some time Tuesday giving final checks over the dashboards before actually sending them out to Exa Futures clients. I have mainly been doing internal work for the company, so this felt like a big step in gaining my work’s trust!
Over the weekend I traveled to Florence, which is a city I have actually been to with my family years back. It was super cool seeing different aspects of Florence now that I am older or connecting famous landmarks with bits of history I know better now. The Tour de France actually started in Florence this year, which was so cool to watch in person! The event hasn’t started in Italy for over 120 years, so crowds lined the Piazzale Michelangelo to get the best look at the bikers. The city is just so beautiful, so we spent both days walking around all the different streets and parks, which was a great way to happen upon some stores I would have never thought to go to.
