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HIH Insurance's collapse: Australia's largest corporate failure

HIH Insurance Company was the largest insurer in Australia until March 15, 2001 when it was put into liquidation representing "one of the biggest collapses in Australian corporate history." HIH Insurance Company provided workers' compensation; public and private liability and property, and…

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Healthcare delivery challenges and the nursing shortage in the U.S. millennium

The objective of this work is to present a new and improved healthcare delivery system for the new millennium.

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Nursing professionalism and cross-cultural medicine in practice

With the healthcare industry in its current state of disruption, it has become very important to re-evaluate the relationship of patient care and patient satisfaction. "Sometimes patient satisfaction needs to be measured one patient at a time.

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Accounts receivable management and collection policy development

Receivables are an important potential source of money that can easily be converted into profit, just as easy as it can be lost forever. Management or recovery costs are also to be considered, since they can have a significant impact on the cash-flow creation process.

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Warrior culture and values in the U.S. Marines

In Warrior Culture of the U.S. Marines, Marion F. Sturkey reminds the world that no one joins the Marines, they become Marines by surviving the basic training that sculpts the mind and body (Sturkey pp).

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Key areas of improvement from RN to BSN degree programs

Many registered nurses (RNs) make the important decision to enroll in a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree program. These "RN to BSN" programs improve the skills and experience of an RN in many ways.

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Nike's labor practices and corporate social responsibility conflict

When we speak of Corporate Social responsibility- a phrase widely being used these days- do we realize that it is not limited to acts of philanthropy alone. Most firms would pride themselves on their various philanthropic ventures but this alone is definitely not CSR.

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Wal-Mart's proposed environmental policy and consumer transparency standards

As an international retailer, Wal-Mart will make a long-term commitment to protecting the world's environment in the future, as well as continuing to provide its customers with the lowest prices, all of the time.

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Profiling Philip Morris as a global tobacco company

Philip Morris position towards environmental, political, social, economic, legal and labor forces of the international economy

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Defining and implementing corporate social responsibility in modern organizations

Corporate social responsibility has rapidly grown for the last ten years, a big proportion of companies now are involved in a serious attempt to define and incorporate CSR into each aspect of their operations (Turban and Greening, 1997).

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