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Profit pool analysis in competitive industries and value chains

In the Harvard Business Review article, Profit Pools: A Fresh Look at Strategy (Gadiesh, Gilbert, 1998) the authors provide a series of examples of how companies faced with daunting competition, consolidating markets experiencing exceptional price competition and erosion, and a very myopic focus on…

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Emma's moral education through reading Frank Churchill's character

Emma: The Character of Frank Churchill and 'reading' the moral qualities of men in Jane Austen One of the challenges posed by Jane Austen, of her heroine Emma Woodhouse, in the novel entitled Emma, is how Emma must learn to be a good reader of both male and female characters.

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Lee Silver's argument against human cloning and reprogenetics

David Silver's "The Virtual Child" -- Oh Brave New World, Oh Wonder -- that has such people (and cloned sheep in it!) Dolly" was the first sheep ever to make the cover of Time Magazine.

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Sontag's "The Pornographic Imagination": transgression and knowledge in Cooper and Solondz

Pornographic Imagination," Susan Sontag attempts to discuss pornography free from the moral and aesthetic considerations that have previously rendered any discussion of the topic reductive, and ultimately, moot.

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Samuel Huntington's clash of civilizations theory and post-Cold War conflict

Cold War has brought renewed interest in civilizations as a source of identity and conflict. The Cold War had allowed the world to be divided into two distinct camps: one directed by Communist philosophy and the other directed by democratic ideals.

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Project management's shift from systems perspective to leadership paradigm

In many respects the evolution of project management parallels the development and continual validation of leadership theories, often corresponding to comparable timeframes.

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A personal encounter with Milan's Duomo cathedral

Seeing the Dome in Milan was perhaps the first experience that actually knocked me out. This was not a cathedral, at least not like the ones I had seen: it was a myriad of dreams, a swarm of statues, towers and sculptures, a tickle for the soul.

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Ray Charles: pioneering soul music and breaking musical barriers

Ray Charles was one of the greatest musicians of all time. He embodied the term genius, for there was hardly a music genre in which he did not excel, whether gospel, blues, rock, country, or soul (Inductees pp).

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American and Western European attitudes toward military force and international engagement

How different are American values on various important topics than the values of their counterparts in Western Europe?

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Rhetorical analysis of Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address

Delivered in the year 1895, the Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington calls for the emancipation of black Americans from slavery, which includes as its audience both white and black Americans.

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