Timberland Employees Get 40 Hours Paid Leave Each Year to Pursue

question 75

Multiple Choice

Timberland employees get 40 hours paid leave each year to pursue volunteer projects. The company runs a service day that hosts projects in 25 countries, and it supports a nonprofit that brings young people into public service for a year. CEO Jeffrey Swartz sees such service as a powerful differentiator for Timberland with its current and potential customers. Timberland could be most accurately described as practicing ________.

• A) consumerism
• B) environmentalism
• C) green marketing
• D) sustainability
• E) corporate social responsibility

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Definitions:

Compounded Semi-annually

A method of calculating interest where the interest is added to the principal twice a year.

Strip Bond

A type of bond investment where the coupon payments and the principal are separated and sold individually as zero-coupon instruments.

Yield Rate

The annual income return on an investment, expressed as a percentage of the investment's price.

Annual Compound Rates

The rate of return that is earned on an investment or paid on a loan when interest is compounded on an annual basis.