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Can we introduce more values and spirituality to our business models successfully and with promise of greater financial rewards?

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Avon's supply chain inefficiencies from decentralized product development

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The Dred Scott decision and its role in polarizing America over slavery

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Jewish resistance in ghettos and concentration camps during the Holocaust

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UK immigration policy and migrant labour during the 2009 recession

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Seth Godin's "All Marketers Tell Stories": storytelling in modern marketing

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Political satire and utopian quest in Gulliver's Travels

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The Treaty of Westphalia and the end of the Thirty Years War

The region in north western Germany known as Westphalia gave its name to the treaty that ended the Thirty Years War, which was one of the most harmful disagreements in European history.

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