The Origins of Modern Management Consulting In 1993, AT&T spentmore on management consulting services than on corporate research development, AT&T is notalone[8, p. 60]. Wall Street and and analystsexpectbillingsfor consulting services advanceat twice the rate of to corporate revenues over the next decade. Yet, despitethe size, growth,and influence consulting of firms,business historians haveremained uncharacteristically silent aboutthe origins,development, impactof management and consulting
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Educational Research and Reviews Vol. 6 (7), pp. 522-527, July 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/ERR ISSN 1990-3839 © 2011 Academic Journals Review The effects of poverty on academic achievement Misty Lacour1 and Laura D. Tissington2* 2 Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Arkansas, USA. th University of West Florida, 1732 N. 13 Avenue Pensacola, Florida 32503, USA. Accepted 12 May, 2011 Poverty, which forms a specific culture and way of life, is a growing
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Privatization of Telecoms in Asia John Ure and Araya Vivorakij* Privatization viewed as a panacea for the most pressing problems besetting the modernization and development of telecommunications has become, in recent years, a widely accepted part of orthodox thinking. Wellenius, Stern, Nulty and Stern (1989) illustrate the point. ‘How should privatization be defined?’ asks the International Finance Corporation (IFC, 1995). ‘A generous stance would admit any transfer of ownership or control from
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IBIMA Publishing Journal of Marketing Research and Case Studies http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JMRCS/jmrcs.html Vol. 2011 (2011), Article ID 421059, 17 pages DOI: 10.5171/2011.421059 Analyzing the Effectiveness of Marketing Strategies in the Presence of Word of Mouth: Agent-Based Modeling Approach Çiğdem Karakaya, Bertan Badur and Can Aytekin Boğaziçi University, Management Information Systems Department, Istanbul/Turkey ______________________________________________________
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens also known as “Mark Twain” was born on November 30, 1835 in Florida but was raised in Hannibal, Missouri. Son of John Marshall Clemens and Jane Lampton Clemens was the seventh child. His brother Orion, Henry, and his sister Pamela managed to survive through their childhood. The other three siblings died before they could reach the age of eleven. Margaret (1830 - 1839) died
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Intervening in a Violent Situation Regardless of Gender Identity of Victim Abstract The purpose of this study was to find out whether bystanders to a violent act would react similarly if the victim was a transgender individual versus a heterosexual female. There is little past research on this subject, but what has been done on violence within this community suggests that the violence against them is significant, increasing, and constitutes a serious public health problem in the U.S. (Witten
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There are many different types of change management interventions that can be used to implement change into an organisation, or in this case, the organisation, ‘Office Tigers’. It is part of the change agent’s role to assess which one will be the most beneficial, taking into account the organisations ‘unique problems (Lee, 2012), environmental forces and workforce’ (Allen & Macklin, 2012, p. 22). This essay will look at three different change management interventions, employee stress and wellness
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IBIMA Publishing Journal of Marketing Research and Case Studies http://www.ibimapublishing.com/journals/JMRCS/jmrcs.html Vol. 2011 (2011), Article ID 421059, 17 pages DOI: 10.5171/2011.421059 Analyzing the Effectiveness of Marketing Strategies in the Presence of Word of Mouth: Agent-Based Modeling Approach Çiğdem Karakaya, Bertan Badur and Can Aytekin Boğaziçi University, Management Information Systems Department, Istanbul/Turkey _____________________________________________________________
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Sharing Demand Signals: A New Challenge to Improve Collaboration within Supply Chains Karine Evrard-Samuel University Pierre Mendès-France Grenoble II, karine.samuel@upmf-grenoble.fr The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of collaborative demand planning. This article focuses on this practice particularly when information is shared in the downstream supply chain between a manufacturer and a retailer. We show how a manufacturing supply chain needs to be aligned with the retail supply
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The Military, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, and Personality Jaye Crouse Northcentral University Dr. Claire Clifford PSY8100 Jul 20, 2014 Introduction The field of personality psychology has developed out of the necessity to know why people act, feel, and think like they do, to analyze their inward and outward motivations, and to discover where behaviors originate. It is the age-old debate of nature versus nurture that is found in many psychological theories and personality is
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