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Max Weber's Protestant Ethic and American class stratification

America's 'free market economy' is one of the calling cards of its defiant stance on individual liberties and personal opportunities for the pursuit of happiness.

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Portrait of a Thai immigrant seamstress and business owner

Was still working as she spoke calmly to me, slowly answering every question with calculated, yet strangely real and humble responses to my infiltrating questions. She sat there, sewing, like almost everyday of her existence, with no retirement in sight.

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Larry Cuban's critique of business models in public education

Cuban, Larry. (2004). The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can't Be Businesses. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press.

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Donald Trump's sources of power in business and negotiation

Donald Trump uses a vast number of diverse sources of power, as the article presents them.

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Home Depot's strategic opportunities and business expansion initiatives

Home Depot is an American company founded in 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia, nowadays running subsidiaries in more parts of the world, such as Canada, Mexico or China.

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Honesty and integrity in business leadership

I do not believe that it is in the best interest of businesses to be dishonest in any way. It therefore also follows that I do not believe any business or leader who pursues a path of honesty and integrity is in any way naive.

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HLL's fairness cream business and competitive threats in India

HLL, a subsidiary of Lever, is a cosmetics company that operates in India. The company markets a number of products in the Indian market, including a "fairness cream," which purports to lighten the skin of the user. The Indian market is widely segmented.

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Data mining applications and ethical limits in pharmaceutical marketing

Data mining is very important for operational effectiveness but when / how to stop mining data before it becomes more trouble than it's worth?

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Organizational inconsistency and ethical challenges at Faith Community Hospital

Chris Smith has just taken on the role of Executive Assistant at Faith Community Hospital. What Chris doesn't know is that several obstacles that lie in the path of its success are challenging the Hospital.

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JetBlue's privacy violations and ethical implications of low-cost pricing

JetBlue's main competitors can be considered Southwest in the United States, together with Ryanair and Easyjet in Europe and AirAsia in Asia. However, we need to mention from the very beginning that the international issues we need to address are at most continental or regional.

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