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Strategy is the most central issue in management. It has to do with defining the purpose of an organization, understanding the market in which it operates and the capabilities the firm possesses, and putting together a winning plan. There are many influential frameworks to help managers undertake a systematic reflection on this issue. The most dominant approaches are Michael Porter’s "Competitive Strategy" and the "Resource-Based View of the Firm," popularized by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad. Arnoldo Hax argues there are fundamental drawbacks in the underlying hypotheses of these approaches in that they define strategy as a way to achieve sustainable competitive advantage. This line of thi...
"Collection of stories, essays, and photographs providing a window into America during a tumultuous era bookended by the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump."--
The international conference on Automation and Robotics-ICAR2011 is held during December 12-13, 2011 in Dubai, UAE. The proceedings of ICAR2011 have been published by Springer Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, which include 163 excellent papers selected from more than 400 submitted papers. The conference is intended to bring together the researchers and engineers/technologists working in different aspects of intelligent control systems and optimization, robotics and automation, signal processing, sensors, systems modeling and control, industrial engineering, production and management. This part of proceedings includes 81 papers contributed by many researchers in relevant topic areas c...
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After graduating from Oakstown High School, Trevor Van Pelt, along with his girlfriend Karen Dickson, and his friends John Crenshaw and Suzy Moore all go to the beach for beach week. Then all of a sudden, while at the beach, Trevor has a premonition of a tragic tsunami that washes away and kills everyone who was on that beach. Because of his premonition, he manages to save a bunch of people from their pending doom. Later on in the book, after the memorial, everyone that was in Trevor's premonition start to die off one by one in the order they would have died in his premonition. He tries to tell the people that are next about it, but they don't listen to him and they react badly about it; they eventually die. Death does this through the whole book until everyone is gone. Is there a way to stop his sinister plans? You will have to find out.
American public schools often censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Lessons in Censorship brings clarity to a bewildering array of court rulings that define the speech rights of young citizens in the school setting. Catherine J. Ross examines disputes that have erupted in our schools and courts over the civil rights movement, war and peace, rights for LGBTs, abortion, immigration, evangelical proselytizing, and the Confederate flag. She argues that the failure of schools to respect civil liberties betrays their educational mission and threatens democracy. From the 1940s through the Warren years, the Supreme Court celebrated free expression and emphasized the rol...
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