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    Types of Friends

    T H E S I M P L E PAT H T O C O O K I N G L I K E A P R O , L E A R NING ANY THING, AND LIVING THE GOOD LIFE TIMOTHY FERRIS S Published by Houghton Mi in Harcourt Boston | New York 2012 Produced by 49316_CH00_FM_p001t015_092012_NB.indd 3 9/25/12 10:27 AM 49316_CH00_FM_p001t015_092012_NB.indd 4 9/25/12 10:27 AM PUBLISHER’S DISCLAIMER The material in this book is for informational purposes only. Since each individual situation is unique, you should use proper discretion

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    Medical Sleuth

    Medical Sleuth Tom Shachtman, Smithsonian, Feb. 2006, Vol. 36 Issue 11, p23-30 IT WAS EVERY PARENT'S nightmare: a few days before Christmas 1999, Elizabeth and Samuel Glick, Old Order Amish dairy farmers in rural Dornsife, Pennsylvania, an hour's drive north of Harrisburg, found their youngest child, 4-month-old Sara Lynn, gravely ill. They rushed her to a local hospital, from where she was soon transferred to the larger Geisinger Medical Center in the next county. There, a doctor noted a hemorrhage

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    4277 APRIL 4, 2011 JAMES L. HESKETT RICHARD LUECKE Porcini’s Pronto: “Great Italian cuisine without the wait!” In January 2011 Tom Alessio, marketing vice president at Porcini’s, Inc., of Boston, was pondering issues raised by a potential expansion of his company’s restaurant business. The domestic market for full-service chain restaurants was nearing its saturation point at both in-city and shopping mall locations. The big chains were looking overseas for growth, but as a small regional

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    Economies of Scale and Scope

    other industries, such as apparel design and management consulting, scale economies are minimal and small firms are the norm. Some industries, such as beer and computer software, have large market leaders (Anheuser-Busch, Microsoft), yet small firms (Boston Beer Company, Blizzard Entertainment) fill niches where scale economies are less important. An understanding of the sources of economies of scale and scope is clearly critical for formulating and assessing competitive strategy. This chapter identifies

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    Fair Value Accounting an Appropriate Method for Calculation

    MacDonald’s Corporation Analysis FIN 284 ASSET MANAGEMENT Summer 2005 Submitted by: Anne Orji Chunlei Bao Angelo Zino Efstratios Philippis 1 Table of Contents I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. Executive Summary (includes Asset Allocation to Portfolio) Company Overview Business Description SWOT Analysis (Key Strategies and Risk Factors) Management Operations Analysis Industry and Market Analysis Overview of fiscal year 2004 Outlook for 2005 Financial Results for

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    Mcdonald Case

    Teaching Note: Case 14 – McDonald’s Case Objectives 1. To investigate the key external environmental issues that can affect a firm’s strategy. 2. To examine how a reevaluation of strategy involves assessment of internal activities and resources. 3. To discuss the decisions and actions that a firm has to undertake to sustain a competitive advantage, especially when pursuing growth. See the table below to determine where to use this case: |Chapter Use |Key Concepts

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    Malcom X

    MALCOLM X Learning to Read Malcolm Little, born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, was reborn Malcolm X in his twenties while imprisoned for burglary. (He considered "Little" a slave name and chose the "X" to signify his lost African tribal name.) His conversion to Islam under the Nation of Islam and his rigorous self-education led him to a life ofpolitical activism marked by hatred, violence, and hope. For a time, as the foremost spokesman of the Nation of Islam, Malcolm preached a separatist philosophy

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    Case Study

    ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ HBS Professor V. Kasturi Rangan and Sunru Yong prepared this case solely as a basis for class discussion and not as an endorsement, a source of primary data, or an illustration of effective or ineffective management. This case, though based on real events, is fictionalized, and any resemblance to actual persons or entities is coincidental. There are occasional references to actual companies

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    Postmodernism in Arrested Development

    situation comedy has always appealed to mass market audiences. From ‘The Brady Bunch’(1969 – 1974), which centred on a blended family, perhaps the best-known domestic comedy in US television history to ‘Cheers’(1982 – 1993), the show set in a bar in Boston. Sitcoms usually consist of recurring characters in a common environment such as a home or workplace. Sitcoms provide the audience with iconic moments in television history. The longitivity of this genre of programming allows the audiences to build

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    Knox Case

    Introduction One of the most important trends in industrial organization of the past quarter century has been the growth of collaboration between independent companies. As large companies have pulled back their collaboration boarders through outsourcing and divestment of ‘non-core’ activities, they have increasingly cooperated with other companies in order to engage in activities and access resources outside their own boundaries. The concept of strategic alliances has become widely used in the

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