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Changing mental models at AAA Transportation to overcome resistance to diversification

The notion by Vernon that AAA should not expand out of their core business and Bud that AAA is not strong enough to compete with existing companies that service the nonperishable foods market in the Midwest confirms a fact that people normally have a built-in anti-change immune system.

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McDonald's and the nonmarket environment in fast food

The nonmarket environment affects the fast food industry with issues, interests, institutions, and information that raises public awareness of health concerns, the safety of consumer products, as well as ethical concerns about how the products are raised, cared for and produced.

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The effects of discount culture on American workers and consumer debt

The discount culture has created many concerns that giant retail stores are conducting business unfairly and taking advantage of American workers.

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Dispute resolution mechanisms in international oil and gas contracts

By glancing at the economies and the trading patterns of the world it can be deduced that the investments made in the petroleum business, forms a radical majority; as it involves huge and many a times capital intensive projects.

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Contradictory results of educational voucher programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland

The Merriman-Webster online dictionary offers three definitions for "voucher": "...a documentary record of a business transaction; a written affidavit or authorization; a form or check indicating a credit against future purchases or expenditures." None of the three even approaches the emotionally…

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Inductive reasoning and fallacies in tabloid news and advertising campaigns

In popular mass media, information has become a valuable source of profit. Motivated by the lucrative media business, publishing companies and media agencies sought to provide people with sensational stories and numerous information in order to generate a following in the society.

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Milo Minderbender's M&M Enterprises and the corrupted American Dream

Milo Minderbender's "M&M Enterprises" epitomizes through only slight hyperbole a corrupt multinational corporation. Milo brazenly cheats and steals to keep M&M Enterprises alive while at the same time claiming that his business practices benefit all shareholders.

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Lessons from pharmaceutical industry collaboration and patient-centered approaches

The author of this report has been asked to review five Harvard Business Review documents from the recent years that relate to the pharmaceutical industry.

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Social entrepreneurship as a response to neo-liberal economic systems

Primarily, social entrepreneurship involves the combination of business techniques with an aim of finding solutions to various social problems. With this notion in mind, social entrepreneurs identify and solve different social problems on a large scale.

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Seattle's collective bargaining agreement on $15 minimum wage

The article covers the negotiation process that was held over a number of weeks in Seattle between the business class, the labor movement and the concerned task force.

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