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Panera's innovation strategy and competitive success in fast-casual dining

For a company that started as a bakery in the early 1980s, Panera has definitely achieved a great deal of success despite trying economic times and major changes in its market of operations.

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Comedy in Chekov's "The Seagull" and "The Cherry Orchard"

When one thinks of the Russian theatre around the turn of the nineteenth into the twentieth century, a barrel of laughs is probably not the first cliched metaphor to spring to mind.

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Common law principles of tort liability and negligence

(3) What is the correct burden of proving liability of negligence?

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Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation and revitalization

This is no informative article. This is a persuasive piece on 'Chicago's Public Housing" (CHA), the history of their developments, the successes that they've achieved since then, and their objective for the future.

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Hong Kong International Airport's competition and regional integration strategy

In it, the author will provide an analysis of the main issues of airport management currently faced by HKIA as well as an analysis of the economic, social and environmental impacts of HKIA on the city of Hong Kong, its region and China as well.

~12 min read

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The link between pesticides and childhood obesity

Childhood obesity has become an epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the incidence has more than tripled in the last thirty years.

~11 min read

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Knowledge-sharing networks and organizational communication technologies

Trust and transparency have emerged as more critical than ever for organizational and personal communication to flourish. This is paradoxical given the hype and heavy promotion of social networks today, as their success is predicated on trust being earned.

~15 min read

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Case study methodology for understanding PTSD through individual narratives

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is highly based on individualized experiences and how the subject continues to hold on to negative experiences throughout their lives as a source of anxiety.

~4 min read

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Jazz innovation and African-American social change through musical evolution

Within every genre of music, there are innovators who continue to push the edge of that genre. Classical music had innovations in every generation, from Bach, Haydn and Beethoven to Stravinsky, Bernstein, and Shostakovich.

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Humanism and Renaissance music: transformation through equal voices and church modes

Throughout the history of music there are those ideas that have the ability to unite the classic forms of composition with modern day thinking. As these two elements have often been utilized to create a new genre that changes the way everyone thinks and feels about the sounds they are hearing.

~8 min read

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