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The evolving role of pricing departments in organizational strategy

Having progressed from historically being part of the accounting or finance function within many organizations, today pricing is often its own strategic business unit, providing insight into a myriad of decisions, strategies and programs.

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Experimentation and progress in companion robot development

A Current Application of the Scientific Method: Experimentation and Progress in Companion Robots The scientific method can often seem a rather pedantic and esoteric method of investigation, requiring more conscious and explicit divisions and a more plodding pace than innovation might seem to…

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Administration perceptions of shared decision-making roles in Tennessee elementary schools

Some of the greatest things that have ever been accomplished have been the product of a group of people considering, accepting and believing in a fact when everyone else saw myth, deceits and dissent.

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Government welfare programs benefit the rich more than the poor

It has become fashionable to assume that government-supported welfare programs primarily support the poor. It is also often assumed that these welfare programs discourage the welfare recipients from becoming responsible citizens who are willing to work and take care of themselves.

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Nutritional therapies and dietary management for ulcerative colitis

Ulcerative Colitis is a disease that causes an inflammation in the lower components of the digestive system -- specifically, in the colon and in the lining of the rectum. The inflammation of the colon requires it to frequently discharge, causing diarrhea.

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The Korean language: classification, dialects, and linguistic features

The Korean language, a member of the Altaic family of languages, is spoken as a native language by peoples of Korean ethnic derivation living in the Korean peninsula, southern and eastern Manchuria, the Russian Far East (eastern Siberia), Kazakhstan, Japan, North America, and in other communities…

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Technology platforms enabling virtual team productivity and knowledge transfer

The pervasive adoption and use of virtual teams in enterprises is redefining the pace, direction of innovation in communication, collaboration, shared project workflows, project management, and knowledge transfer.

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Middle East real estate market performance during the financial crisis

Over the last several years, the real estate market in the Middle East has been through a tremendous amount of challenges. Part of the reason for this, is because the different oil exporting countries experienced a boom in prices until 2008.

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Due process rights in school suspensions and the Goss v. Lopez decision

In the constitutional realm of the individual and their inalienable rights, perhaps no concept is more critical to the protection of liberty than the fifth and fourteenth amendments, and the safeguard provided that "no person be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"…

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Michael Porter's five forces model and its critiques in industry analysis

A popular tool for managers to analyze their external environments is the five forces analysis that was developed by Michael Porter. The five forces analysis rests on the assumption that a firm's ability to succeed is based largely on its pricing power.

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