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The Woburn leukemia case and Jan Schlichtmann's legal battle

The book, Civil Action, is based on a true case and it highlights the suffering of a small community in Boston in 1970s. The story revolves around the case of Ms.

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Copyright law and music piracy on the Internet

Music piracy is by no means a new phenomenon. At the beginning of the twentieth century, when music was sold in the form of printed "sheet music," pirates took advantage of a the-then newly developed technology called photolithography and sold duplicate copies of the 'legal music' at half the price…

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Joe Kilminster's accountability in the Challenger disaster

On January 28, 1986, the Challenger, one of the reusable space shuttle by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA, was launched off at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida but exploded 72 seconds after liftoff.

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Enron Corporation's accounting fraud and the failure of segregation of duty

The Enron Corporation scandal led to its bankruptcy and the dissolution of the Arthur Anderson corporation; a leading accountancy and audit partner worldwide.

~13 min read

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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.

~10 min read

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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.

~6 min read

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656 words

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.

~4 min read

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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.

~18 min read

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