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Coca-Cola's strategic challenges in market recovery and corporate ethics

The following are 'snapshots' of current conditions at what is arguably world's largest producer of soft drinks. While Coke has been the generic word for 'brown soft drink' for decades, it has lots market share, calling for strategic plans to win it back.

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Can technological progress overcome scarcity?

While some hope that eventually, technology will be so advanced, it will be able to provide everyone on earth with everything needed, it is unlikely that will happen. There has always been technology, and it has always advanced.

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Bass's three theories of leadership development and effectiveness

Leadership is defined as a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive (Robins, Pinsky, & Krichko, 2004).

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E-manufacturing and internet technologies in supply chain management

Computer use first spread throughout manufacturing and industry during the 1950's and 1960's. Early computers, however, were both difficult to program and limited in their speed and memory.

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Amartya Sen's development as freedom and global inequality

The problem of "development" (or, perhaps "progress" and "advancement" also fits in this context) is that while many millions of citizens of the world have been blessed by dramatic progress (technological, industrial, and communications) over the past few decades, many millions are being left…

~16 min read

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Age discrimination in the high-tech industry workforce

Any discussion of the older worker in the first decade of the current century needs to take into account two seemingly disparate facts: the Baby Boomers are aging, but still under 65, and the youth generation is, in contrast, quite small.

~30 min read

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Cultural influences on learning styles in multicultural Australia

The concept of multiculturalism was imported, according to one opponent of the idea, form Canadian politics "to represent a vague set of ideas which purportedly promotes the cultural and economic interests of certain non-Anglomorph sections of the Australian community" (Cooray 2000).

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Conrad's depiction of human corruption and moral degradation in Nostromo

Within the pages of Nostromo, Joseph Conrad attempts to reveal the human condition at its most fundamental state: a state of corruption, depravity, and moral degradation.

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Roman hostility toward early Christianity and pagan criticism

Early Christianity did not develop in isolation, but within a complex landscape already occupied by belief systems, social networks, systems of identity, and political institutions, and it is essential not to regard it 'as somehow independent, as if the church were an entity existing apart from…

~17 min read

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The origins and development of Impressionism in 19th-century art

Although the term "Impressionism" was first used in 1874 by a journalist ridiculing a landscape by Monet, the bitter controversy that raged for twenty years over the merits of Impressionism actually began eleven years earlier in 1863 at the Salon des Refuses, an exhibition held to accommodate the…

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