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Stakeholder management at Nike Inc.

Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) is a marketer of athletic footwear and apparel based in suburban Portland, Oregon. As a large and diversified company, Nike has a wide range of stakeholders, both internal and external.

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Second generation biofuels as a renewable energy investment opportunity

Biofuels are becoming an important component of renewable energy initiatives. While first generation ethanol production, mainly from corn in the U.S., has created negative externalities by repurposing agricultural output for energy usage, second generation biofuels have the potential to achieve…

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Leadership and cost control in hospital management reform

To some degree, leadership's thinking in health care has been in torpor. Rather than rigorously rethinking, health care management has been asleep at the wheel. In the midst of a battlefield, too many leaders have been settling for survival over winning. One sees it in some hospital mergers.

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Deontology and consequentialism approaches to euthanasia

Euthanasia is one of those philosophical issues that have been widely debated, without any solution in sight. One of the main reasons behind this is the many sets of principles behind each side of the debate.

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Standards-based education implementation and technology in schools

Standards-based education is based upon the principles and belief that children can and should be presented with a challenging curriculum in order to improve their performance at school and ultimately also in their professional lives.

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African nationalism as a response to colonial psychological domination

African nationalism or nationalist movement developed as a reaction to years of oppression by the whites in the name of white supremacy.

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Quality improvement plan implementation at University of Kansas Center for Advanced Heart Care

In order to improve the quality of patient care and specifically to eliminate/reduce errors in the provision of care, the FOCUS PDCA quality improvement plan is recommended for the university of Kansas Center for Advanced Heart Care.

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The commercialization of college athletics and the myth of amateurism

The term amateur in college athletics seems to no longer be applicable. Without a doubt, the college sports arena has become a spectacle of its own, allowing players to become overnight celebrities and guaranteeing their positions as future professional players There have been some subtle and…

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The Massachusetts Emergency and Hygiene Association's role in establishing America's first playgrounds

In 1885 the Massachusetts Emergency and Hygiene Association (MEHA) positioned a mound of sand in the backyard of the Parmenter Street Chapel, a mission in Boston's North End.

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Locke's theory of property rights and civil society in the Second Treatise

In Locke's second treatise, his views on property flows directly out of his theory of political and civil society that is based upon natural rights and contract theory.

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