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Social Responsibility, Values, and Making Ethical Decisions

values and brings into focus the individuals needs and wants. The question here is, "Do I really need to do this, or just want to...

Vertical Integration as a Means of Expansion: the Case of BMD

The writer discusses the case of BMD, a lumber yard company, which attempted to expand and maximize profits by acquiring other com...

The Role of the Executive and Legislative Branches in Foreign Policy Decisions

This paper examines the role played by the executive and legislative branches of the US government in foreign policy decisions. T...

Education and Issues in the Classroom

Teachers in America face critical issues in making everyday classroom decisions. This paper examines a fictitious first-grade clas...

Poor Decisions and Lufthansa and Their Consequences

Americans discovery of Japans high quality, fuel efficient cars during the oil crisis had translated to cutbacks and layoffs among...

The Impact of Career Changes

This paper describes the decision-making process utilized by a chemical engineer with a six-figure salary who decided to change ca...

Interventions and Decisional Counseling

In five pages decisional counseling and decision support interventions are examined in terms of their practitioner usefulness as t...

The Film The Glass Shield and Decision Making

In five pages a protagonist's difficult decisions are examined within the context of the 1994 movie with an analysis of ethical co...

Hospital Setting and Decision Support Systems Potential

In twelve pages the healthcare industry as it relates to Decision Support Systems are discussed in terms of analytical instruments...

Decisions in Paradise; Part Three

that the local resources are available, but to consider the cost of accessing those resources. If the resources are able to be acc...

iTunes; Porters Five Forces Analysis

only two years after launching the firm was making it different for the competition, as by July 2005 5 million tracks had been dow...

Balancing the Risks of Using Malathion to Reduce the Occurrence of West Nile Virus

When making decisions regarding risk reduction, potential risks will need to be assessed from all potential actions. The writer us...

Motivations for Multinational Companies to Pursue Forogen Direct Investment

labor thats may be more readily available, or available at a lower cost than in the companys home country. In many instances the p...

Then and Now: Children’s Pastimes in the 1980s and Today

the Internet with other on-line players. The single-player, individual experience has replaced the community. But todays children...

Overturning Duverger’s Law

districts). There are several problems created by this "winner-take-all" method of voting, which are reflected in Duvergers formu...

Dispersion Analysis

The dispersal is the way in which the data is distributed. Dispersal may be assessed with a range of measures; these include range...

Using Probability to Help with Decisions under Uncertainty

to evaluate collective costs. The calculation will need input that is representative of the physical results of the current action...

Ricci v. Stefano and Diversity

of individual who passed the examination and qualified for promotions" (Mereau, 2009). Epstein (2009) points out that the city o...

Using Monte Carlo or a Decision Tree

contract where there is a monthly payment of $125,000 a month but the bonus, using the same discount rate gives a total contract ...

Harley Davidson ERP Case Study

This 6 page paper is based on a case study provided by the student. The paper assesses the decision making process followed by Har...

Research on Ovarian Cancer

is an article that illustrates perhaps how little the medical community really knows about the condition. In trying to understan...

Why Samuel P. Huntington's Paradigm is Accurate

Civilizations, Huntington (1998) provides a great deal of insights. He writes: "The weakening of the states and the appearance of ...

Information Needed by HCHE

The first consideration is who the companys customers are or should be. Markets are segmented and the company do not know who thei...

Difficulties in Constructing Robust Legislation to Impose Enforceable Health and Safety Duties on Directors of UK Companies

a particular person responsible especially when the company also has a legal identity and can be seen as a defendant. However, alt...

Balancing Cash Flow and Profit

break even or payback period is reached. During this time there will be other costs that the company has to pay, both overhead cos...

Decisions at Virgin Atlantic

high level of publicity, sing both Branson himself and many other well known names (Virgin, 2007). There were initial prob...

Formal Decision Making Processes

friend and I in particular had what we viewed as a stellar business idea. It had been suggested to us that we might prefer to stri...

Influences on Patient Healthcare Service Provider Communication

information being given to the patient by the doctor. Anecdotal evidence from those who were patients at the time remember importa...

Development of & Importance of School Finance

duty to provide a comprehensive education for all of its citizens. Smith reacted to British mercantilism and its limits on trade, ...

Investment Concepts, Tools and Theories

concept is that the portfolio of investments is one that will match the needs of the investor, taking into account different aspe...