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Apple Inc.'s four Cs: company, competition, collaborators, and customers

Apple is one of the oracular companies of Silicon Valley that rose up as the icon of personal computing and in the recent years has seen tremendous success since the return of Steven P. Jobs who opened it up for horizons far beyond the desktop.

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Performance-based accountability systems in managing for results

Any quality improvement initiative requires some type of formal and informal monitoring process so that progress can be evaluated over time.

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Organizational change methods at DuPont: development, inquiry, and sense-making

The Organizational Development method of change is most visible in this case study in terms of the NASCAR metaphor that was used to reorganize and re-theorize each individual's role within the organization.

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The Henry Louis Gates Jr. arrest and police racial profiling

On the afternoon of July 16, 2009 Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation's pre-eminent African-American scholars, was arrested at his home by Cambridge, Massachusetts police investigating a possible break-in.

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Lessons from America's diplomatic failures and presidential miscalculations in Vietnam

The Vietnam War may only be called a success by the most optimistic and selective of American memories.

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Song Hee-Suk's life in North Korea under totalitarian rule

Cook" shows the interaction of an individual with a system, a totalitarian society and the other participants to the two.

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Investment thesis and venture capital analysis for Quick & Easy Auctions

While the growth to date and general maturity of the Q&E Auctions appear to be extremely favorable, there are some key questions that need to be addressed before a meeting can be arranged.

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Comparing effectiveness of e-learning versus traditional learning environments

The idea that e-learning could be seriously compared to traditional learning when it comes to efficacy in learning is somewhat controversial in theory; however, in these modern days, students are looking at online learning as a non-traditional way of getting an good education -- mainly because…

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Alexander Grab's analysis of Napoleon's reform policies across ten European states

Alexander Grab's book "Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe" focuses on the episodes having happened in Napoleon's Great Empire and on the progress experienced by the ten states composing it.

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Arguments against raising the minimum wage in the United States

The minimum wage should not be increased, for several reasons. These include the increased flexibility that a lower minimum wage gives to employers, the economic impacts of lower minimum wages, the reasoning that the minimum wage is ineffective at defending against poverty and the fact that states…

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