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Fashion-based nonprofits creating sustainable African business partnerships

Paying it Forward to Africa Fashionably, Top 10 Non-Profit Shop for Change List the combination of business, fashion, and philanthropy is an enticing one and some entrepreneurs are jumping into that with two feet. Ban Ki-moon, the U.N.

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Multicultural approach to contemporary workplace supervision

With the continuing spread and domination of globalization in contemporary business, it is crucial for managerial practices to be able to keep up in an increasingly multicultural environment.

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Evaluating the Ottoman Empire's decline through strengths and weaknesses

The Ottoman Empire was perhaps amongst the short-lived glories that history has seen yet.

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Thorntons Chocolates: business strategy and market challenges

The British Company, Thortons Chocolates, was established in 1911 by Joseph Thornton. Today, it is headquartered in Derbyshire England, has 381 company and 261 franchise shops, over 4000 employees, and annual revenue of over 180 million British Pounds.

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Endius' product development decision: in-house versus outsourcing

The medical device industry is driven largely by innovation, with new products comprising a substantial portion of sales and profits in the sector.

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Outdated information systems and documentation in hospital quality improvement

The current hospital setting has only a basic information system in place, which performs many of the functions common to the most basic information systems in such areas as patient registration, certain aspects of patient billing, and medical records indexing and accessing (Kelker, 2010).

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Federalist and anti-federalist debates over constitutional ratification

This website provides a clear, concise introduction to the reasons that a new constitution was needed to replace the Articles of Confederation, which was described as "firm league of friendship" between the states and could not raise funds from taxation.

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Harley Davidson's cultural decline under AMF ownership from 1969

AMF took over Harley Davidson in 1969 (Motorcycle.com, 2012), a few decades before Treacy and Wiersma developed their theory about value disciplines (1992), so Harley management clearly did not have these theories in mind when setting strategies in those days.

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The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798: Federalist politics and Republican opposition

In 1798 the newly established United States of America found itself in a situation where it believed that war with France was imminent. In fact, the "Quasi-War" as it became known, was a situation where the two nations were fighting each other on the seas, but without formal declarations of war.

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Addressing team performance challenges at Pfeiffer Industries

Creating teams has galvanized our employees together around common goals and led to greater level of achievement, yet there is much work still to be done.

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