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Key elements of Starbucks' organizational culture and governance

Today Starbucks Corporation has become a leading retailer, coffee brand and roaster all over the world. It has more than 12,000 licensed and company-operated locations in Europe, North America, Middle East, Latin America as well as Asia Pacific.

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Internal audit and social media risk management in financial institutions

In the wake of the competitive financial service industry, the financial institutions are increasingly adopting technological advancements to engage, acquire, attract, and retain customers.

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Satirizing Victorian society in Trollope's The Way We Live Now

Live Now Trollope did not write for posterity, according to writer Henry James. "He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are just the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket." (Hall, 1993) "The Way We Live Now" was meant to be a satire of the literary world of London in the late…

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The Woburn leukemia case and Jan Schlichtmann's legal battle

The book, Civil Action, is based on a true case and it highlights the suffering of a small community in Boston in 1970s. The story revolves around the case of Ms.

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Copyright law and music piracy on the Internet

Music piracy is by no means a new phenomenon. At the beginning of the twentieth century, when music was sold in the form of printed "sheet music," pirates took advantage of a the-then newly developed technology called photolithography and sold duplicate copies of the 'legal music' at half the price…

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Joe Kilminster's accountability in the Challenger disaster

On January 28, 1986, the Challenger, one of the reusable space shuttle by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA, was launched off at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida but exploded 72 seconds after liftoff.

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Enron Corporation's accounting fraud and the failure of segregation of duty

The Enron Corporation scandal led to its bankruptcy and the dissolution of the Arthur Anderson corporation; a leading accountancy and audit partner worldwide.

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Larry Page's leadership and Google's innovative organizational culture

Larry Page is the current CEO of Google, and one of the company's co-founders, along with Sergey Brin. The rampant success of Google in its short life makes it one of the most fascinating companies, and even during the period where Page was not CEO he was a strong influence over the company.

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Internal and external validity in female condom intervention research

How can the researchers best design a study to test the hypothesis, while also maintaining internal and external validity? And given there are no perfectly designed experiments or research designs, which features are easiest to sacrifice?

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Solving organizational conflict at ExtraVert through corporate governance

The assumptions that can be reached through deductive reasoning -- that there are most definitely problems between the home office and the foreign office; and that the two offices have different objectives -- are certainly not rocket science.

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