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Larry Page's leadership and Google's innovative organizational culture

Larry Page is the current CEO of Google, and one of the company's co-founders, along with Sergey Brin. The rampant success of Google in its short life makes it one of the most fascinating companies, and even during the period where Page was not CEO he was a strong influence over the company.

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Internal and external validity in female condom intervention research

How can the researchers best design a study to test the hypothesis, while also maintaining internal and external validity? And given there are no perfectly designed experiments or research designs, which features are easiest to sacrifice?

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Solving organizational conflict at ExtraVert through corporate governance

The assumptions that can be reached through deductive reasoning -- that there are most definitely problems between the home office and the foreign office; and that the two offices have different objectives -- are certainly not rocket science.

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Ethical responsibilities of Robbins & Robbins in contaminated medication recall

Possible Defenses by Casings, Inc. It was the primary responsibility of Robbins & Robbins to have foreknown the risk of explosives getting into its medication before it entered into any formal agreement with Casings, Inc.

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Martha Stewart's conviction in the ImClone insider trading case

Clone case came to the attention of the SEC because it involved the CEO of ImClone, Sam Waksal, who had the same stockbroker as Martha Stewart, and the two were friends.

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Leadership implementation through the 3D model at Zappos

Good leadership is a key aspect of project management. Leading a project requires working with the manager and other staff drawn from the project's functional areas. It is not accurate to say that a leader only influences the subordinates under him.

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Moral reasoning and ethical decision-making in organizational settings

In each and every organization, there is a need to understand the concepts of integration and cognitive behavior. Every individual is very different from another, and has certain distinctive traits.

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Meg Whitman's leadership philosophy and transformation of Hewlett-Packard

Meg Whitman is the Chief Executive Officer at Hewlett-Packard (HP). This is a computer manufacturing firm based in California, USA. She started working at Hewlett Packard way back in 1989, but it is from the year 2009 that she became the CEO of this company.

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Apple's global supply chain: accountability, audits, and ethical practices

Given the accelerating pace of its new product development and introduction cycles, success of its retail chain globally, the added requirement of greater customer-facing training, and the need to constantly innovate, Apple places a very high level of demands on it suppliers globally.

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Ethical leadership models for shaping organizational culture

Among the best ways to shape organizational culture and still be sure that the employees and their socially diverse cultures are being represented and honored is through ethical leadership models. Three of these models are: P4, Complexity, and 4-V. Each of these models will be discussed here.

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