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Analysis of Morgenson and Rosner's examination of the 2008 financial crisis

Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, And Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner

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A social entrepreneurship training center for retired professionals in Singapore

Briefly, our plan is to come up with a company to provide retired and/or retrenched professionals with a platform to equip students towards intellectual and professional development of social entrepreneurship skills. Up front, we are confronted to justify this decision.

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Customer relationship management systems in the hospitality industry

In the hospitality industry, one of the most critical success factors for greater profitability is to increase customer loyalty and increased share of spending on entertainment, lodging and travel. Customer relationships are crucial for this to occur.

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Critical thinking and decision-making for managers

Critical thinking is the rationally closely controlled process of aggressively and competently conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and assessing information gathered from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.

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Just in time inventory management in manufacturing systems

Internet-based applications, commerce, financing and accounting have exposed static IT acquisitions and the operating environments involved require fresh and revised processes and procedures to tackle and solve the vigorous reflux and rush of capacity, function, service, and support conditions.

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Internal accounting controls and fraud prevention in healthcare facilities

In the healthcare workplace, there are many control measures put into place that must be used in order to protect the welfare of the patients and the workers who care for them. One of the specific healthcare areas in which internal controls are seen is accounting.

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Continental Airlines' innovative approach to customer service and marketing

Continental Airline has evolved as all other major players in the aviation industry have, through the challenges and changes of a global economy.

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The author's journey from rejecting samurai philosophy to understanding her father's seppuku

I suppose I became a modern Samurai through the experience of my father's death. My father belonged to the old school of Samurai philosophy -- a way of life that I despised for one reason - he committed ritual suicide known to the Samurai as Seppuku, or Hara-kiri. I remember the day that he died.

~10 min read

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John W. Dean's critique of Bush-Cheney secrecy and American education

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, by John W. Dean: Implications for Modern American Education

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Spinoza's deterministic philosophy and the influence of biography on thought

According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Benedict de Spinoza was among one of the most important of the post-Cartesian philosophers "who flourished in the second half of the 17th century" and dealt with the implications of free will, mathematics, and science in answering questions…

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