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Balancing Nardelli's initiatives with Home Depot's core culture

Nardelli's sweeping initiatives, culture change at Home Depot was inevitable. However, Nardelli underestimated the value that culture had, and its contribution to the bottom line.

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The history and semiotics of the Confederate flag

Confederate flag "is one of the most controversial, inflammatory icons of American culture," (Sarratt). This paper will explore the history and semiotics of this American icon.

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Exchange rate risk and covered interest arbitrage in international finance

In order to calculate the total amount of U.S. resulting from 1 million euros, one needs to divide the amount by the exchange rate. One can use the following framework

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Margot as Anne Frank's foil in the Secret Annex

Anne's foil? Anne's main foil is Margot, Anne's older sister, who is emotionally (although not temperamentally) closer to the Frank girls' nervous, high-strung mother. Margot is more complacent and docile than Anne.

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Boeing's organizational changes analyzed through the Helms-Mills sense-making framework

Boeing, the world's leading commercial aircraft manufacture, recently made some notable changes to its business and product strategies.

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Symbolism and disease imagery in William Blake's "The Sick Rose"

Sick Rose by William Blake is a monologue that directly addresses the "character" of the rose. The rose does not respond to the speaker's dark diagnosis, and never itself speaks. The voice of the poem is then also dependent upon the speaker making the diagnosis of the rose being sick.

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Robert Fantz's study of form perception in infant primates

Robert L. Fantz's article in Scientific American (1961) delves into the subject of how to study the progress an infant makes in terms of its cognitive development -- specially, what the child perceives when it perceives things -- and why does it perceive what it perceives.

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JetBlue's differentiation strategy and financial performance challenges

JetBlue launched its business with the intent to "bring humanity back to air travel." This strategic intent is based around the idea that by improving customer service, JetBlue would be able to differentiate itself from other airlines.

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The commercialization of youth sports and loss of recreational play

The modern sports media has taken that formula one step further by commodifying every possible aspect of a sporting event. Thus, sports have become less and less about fun and more and more about serious business.

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Sports boycotts as nonviolent tools for political change

Sports have become so well-integrated with the media that boycotts are a legitimate political tool. Boycotts of sports have been used in many high-profile cases such as the 1980 boycott of the Moscow Olympics by the United States.

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