  Recently, Baumslag and Wiegold proved that a finite group $G$ is nilpotent if
and only if $o(xy)=o(x)o(y)$ for every $x,y\in G$ of coprime order. Motivated
by this result, we study the groups with the property that $(xy)^G=x^Gy^G$ and
those with the property that $\chi(xy)=\chi(x)\chi(y)$ for every complex
irreducible character $\chi$ of $G$ and every nontrivial $x, y \in G$ of
pairwise coprime order. We also consider several ways of weakening the
hypothesis on $x$ and $y$. While the result of Baumslag and Wiegold is
completely elementary, some of our arguments here depend on (parts of) the
classification of finite simple groups.
