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Strategic challenges and decline at Sears Holdings Corporation

The importance of strategic business decisions cannot be underestimated in today's fast-paced and competitive market. As economic times resemble recession like qualities, it is even more important that struggling companies find ways to stay competitive in these interesting and troublesome times.

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Quality management's role in multinational training and development strategy

MNCs need to consider when devising strategy for training and development? Nowadays quality management philosophy is given great importance as its role is considered in all the explanations of the major decision making policies regarding training in Multinationals (MNCs).

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Organizational diagnosis of Palm Computing after Hewlett-Packard acquisition

Palm Computing had reinvented the hand held computer market overnight with the line of PalmPilot and similar devices geared to the mobile gadget industry.

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The Mackenzie River valley: geography, history, and natural resources

The River Mackenzie measures up to around one thousand, one hundred and twenty miles that is equivalent to almost eighteen hundred kilometers of length. It originates from Canada, more specifically the Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories.

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Capital requirements and credit risk behavior in Arab African International Bank

The research will mainly dwell on the capital requirements and risk behavior of banks, more in particular the credit risk. The purpose of this research is to identify and analyze the relationship between capital requirements and the risk behavior of banks in Egypt

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Human resource management strategies at McDonald's

McDonald's has been around since 1937, and has created a household name for itself being the number one ranked Fast Food Chain across the globe ("Human resource management at McDonald's," 2009). In 1993, their annual sales reached a jaw-dropping $23 billion dollars.

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Cultural diversity and identity development in educational settings

Culture and education are inherently linked (Adams, 1992; Gay, 2000, Jones 2004; Wlodkcowski & Ginsberg, 1995 in: Guo and Jamal, 2007) In order to understand impact of diversity in the educational setting, Guo and Jamal write that it appears necessary to "first define some key terms, including…

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Critiques of Australian suburbs and landscape-oriented development solutions

A suburb is a residential place existing as either part of the city outside the central business district or a residential community within a distance from the city. Suburbs in Australia have a degree of autonomy in administration.

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Crime rates in Birmingham, Anchorage, and Corpus Christi

Attorney General has the job of collecting, analyzing, and reporting statistical data, which will be able to give valid evaluations of crime and the criminal justice procedure to government and the people of the various states.

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Challenging perceptions of leopard seal behavior and human interaction

Leopard seals are widely known for their ferocity and have been acknowledged as top predators for a long time now. These are large but slender mammals, with females usually exceeding males in size and weight.

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