Essay Undergraduate 568 words

Wal-Mart's CSR Failure in Germany: Ethics and Culture

Examines how Wal-Mart's lack of a localized CSR strategy and ethical blind spots led to lawsuits, cultural conflict, and market exit in Germany.

Ethics

~3 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 2,020 words

Stalin's Collectivization and the Soviet Russian Countryside

Explores how Stalin's collectivization policies transformed peasant life in the Soviet countryside, drawing on Maurice Hindus's firsthand account in Red Bread.

History

~11 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 726 words

FOMC Open Market Operations and Economic Stabilization

Examines how the FOMC under Ben Bernanke used open market operations and low interest rates to stimulate the economy during the post-2008 recession.

Economics

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 732 words

Board Diversity, Commitment, and Effectiveness in Organizations

Explores how board background diversity, member commitment, and critical debate contribute to organizational effectiveness, governance, and sound decision-making.

Business

~4 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,612 words

Social Media Background Checks and Hiring Ethics

Explores how a hiring manager applies utilitarian and Golden Rule frameworks to evaluate a candidate's social media activity during a job selection decision.

Ethics

~9 min read

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Essay Undergraduate 1,093 words

Military Response to Hurricane Katrina: Coast Guard & DOD

Examines how the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Defense, and National Guard responded to Hurricane Katrina and why coordination failures worsened the disaster.

Government

~6 min read

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1,919 words

Administration perceptions of shared decision-making roles in Tennessee elementary schools

Some of the greatest things that have ever been accomplished have been the product of a group of people considering, accepting and believing in a fact when everyone else saw myth, deceits and dissent.

~10 min read

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936 words

Information literacy and research skills in nursing education

A volume of empirical research and anecdotal evidence from various perspectives documents the need to improve informational literacy throughout the American educational system (Schutt & Hightower, 2009; Zabel, 2004).

~5 min read

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1,088 words

Information literacy in K-12 education and student learning

It was said of Thomas Jefferson that he knew almost everything there was to know. Life was simpler 250 years ago, and the world was smaller. There were only a fraction of the books that there are today, which was not a great problem since most people could not read.

~6 min read

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560 words

W. Edwards Deming and the development of total quality management

Dr. William Edwards Deming was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on the 14th of October 1900. The son of a farmer, his family took advantage of a government settlement program and moved to Wyoming in 1907, only to find that the land they had been given was useless for farming.

~3 min read

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