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Harrah's casinos and the Angie Bachmann gambling addiction case

Harrah's use of technology and customer information to draw in gamblers to their casinos illustrates a number of interesting ethical considerations. Advances in neuroscience have provided a better understanding of how the brain works in relation to addictions and gambling.

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Public and private healthcare financing: balancing profit and patient safety

Describe how health care is organized and financed, including the implications of business principles, such as patient and systems cost factor while examining the roles and responsibilities of regulatory agencies and their effect on patient care, workplace safety, and the scope of practice.

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Gender differences in global leadership competencies and perspectives

Global leadership used to be a bit of a novelty or niche part of doing business. While many businesses have engaged in global commerce and discourse for quite some time, it was much more limited in many other parts of industry.

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Cultural competence and bribery in the Ericsson telecommunications scandal

A lack of cultural competence can explain the moral binaries that surround American allegations of bribery in cases like that of Ericsson. Bribery is a common and entrenched way of doing business in Asia and Africa: the continents on which the alleged briberies occurred (Turula 1).

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Criminalization of mental illness and prevention in Miami

Contents Introduction Scope and Consequences Social-ecological Model Theories of Prevention Diversity and Ethical Considerations Advocacy

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Corporate social responsibility at Thomson Reuters and REI

Peer Discussion : Response I knew very little about Thomson Reuters after reading your post, but it sounds as though the organization primarily manifests its ethical values by encouraging its employees to give back to the community, and also by mentoring younger individuals within the organization.

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Sustainability's role in reshaping modern economic theory and practice

The new paradigm in economics is sustainability. Initiated and driven by human and ecological concerns typically ignored in dominant economic models, sustainability has taken on the force of a revolution in recent years. It has altered the way business is set up and run.

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PETA's role in changing attitudes toward animal testing

Concern about animal testing probably began in America after 1980, when a group called People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was formed.

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Personal leadership assessment using Myers-Briggs personality traits

Organizations now believe the significance of their workforce and therefore strive to employ the best possible workforce in order to beat their business rivals. The 'best' workforce today does not only mean a good degree holder -- it means the person as a whole.

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Risk management in Islamic and conventional banking institutions

In the contemporary global financial sector, Sharia-compliant financial institutions, like conventional banks and investment houses conducting business in the current international expansion, desire to diversify and spread risk.

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