CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTH CARE: EMERGING FRAMEWORKS AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES Joseph R. Betancourt Massachusetts General Hospital–Harvard Medical School Alexander R. Green and J. Emilio Carrillo New York-Presbyterian Hospital–Weill Medical College of Cornell University FIELD REPORT October 2002 Support for this research was provided by The Commonwealth Fund. The views presented here are those of the authors and should not be attributed to The Commonwealth Fund or its directors, officers, or
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Evolution of Innovation in the Field of Video Games Zachary Speltz Grand Canyon University: LDR 640 October 12, 2015 Evolution of Innovation in the Field of Video Games The evolution of the video game industry has made it very competitive in terms of having the latest and greatest technology to produce revenue. There are three major companies that are constantly competing for the results which allows for better innovated products. The consumer can see the evolution of in their video game
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CHAPTER 1 One more time: what is marketing? MICHAEL J. BAKER The enigma of marketing is that it is one of man’s oldest activities and yet it is regarded as the most recent of the business disciplines. Michael J. Baker, Marketing: Theory and Practice, 1st edn, Macmillan, 1976 Introduction As a discipline, marketing is in the process of transition from an art which is practised to a profession with strong theoretical foundations. In doing so it is following closely the precedents
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Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Volume 21, Number 2 Spring 2008 WHAT CAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DO FOR LAW? Johnathan Jenkins∗ TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................589 II. INCENTIVES FOR BETTER INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LAW ............................................................591 III. THE CURRENT STATE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN LEGAL PRACTICE ..........................................
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one of the world’s leading diversified industrial companies. A century later, in addition to its core businesses in power generation, household appliances, and lighting, the company was also engaged in businesses as diverse as aircraft engines, medical systems, and diesel locomotives. Long regarded as a bellwether of American management practices, GE was constantly undergoing change. In the 1930s, it was a model of the era’s highly centralized, tightly controlled corporate form. By the 1950s, GE
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innovation are critical for an organisation’s success in maintaining its competitive advantage and in surviving. In a recent Bain & Co survey, four in five senior executives have identified creativity and innovation as a ‘top three’ priority for business strategy.1 And this view of creativity is supported by a
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impact of country of origin (COO) on the consumer's perception of products has been one of the most widely studied areas of international marketing. (Samiee, 1994; Peterson and Jolibert, 1995, Leonidou et al, 1999). Increasing globalization of today's business environment has also renewed the interest in the effect of a product's country of origin on consumer decision making.(Papadopoulos and). Country-of-origin is a concept which states that people constitutes attitudes and believes shaping the perceptions
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Executive Summary: Physicians have always been the driving force behind the success of new technologies and their effects on healthcare. They are interested in new ways of providing care by utilizing medications or trying new procedures and medical devices. Through research they seek to understand the human body and find cures for the diseases that attack it. They spend years in school and incur debt in upwards of $200,000 dollars before they graduate and have the opportunity to practice independently
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Staff • Power Balance Upset and No Authority Delegation to Employee • Resistance to Change • Poor Communication Channels • Insufficient Control and Evaluation • Poor Leadership • Poor Recruitment • Cost Reduction Strategy Limit Business Development in Long Term • Pleasing Culture The recommendations to address the major problems and concerns are as following: • Building Up the Proper Steps (Six Steps to Effective Change) for Change Management • SMART Objective • Identify
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Int. J. Production Economics 72 (2001) 181}199 A survey of manufacturing strategies in China-based enterprises David J. Robb *, Bin Xie Department of Management Science and Information Systems, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China Received 13 December 1999; accepted 7 September 2000 Abstract We present the results
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