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1. Burt's Bees founder Roxanne Quimby led the company toward a vision that corporate objectives and environmental and social ideals can harmonize. What management decisions at Burt's Bees are threatening the purity of that vision and how can Burt's Bees achieve its aspirational growth goals without distancing itself from the people, values and narratives that made it successful? **Based on course pack in Harvard Business Publishing

2. According to the introduction, bards (also known as griots and jeliw) “encouraged their patrons to achieve high goals by reminding them of the examples set by their heroic ancestors, as described in the epic narratives” (1514). Analyze one value of the Manding people that are found in the epic that would encourage readers to achieve higher goals. In your response, explain how the value is presented in the text and how it is still relevant today.