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Yearly Archives: 2015

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  • 11 Aug 2015
    Alfred A. Marcus

    Sustainable Innovation

    The concept of sustainability is an evolving one driven by many factors. While business organizations face risks if they ignore the social, political and regulatory shifts that accompany the movement toward sustainability, they also have the opportunity to significantly differentiate themselves from competitors by creating new business models to address sustainable challenges. Reimagining sustainability as […]

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  • 5 Aug 2015
    Ioannis Ziogas

    Cecil and the Beast

    Over the last days, furious users from all over the world have been raging on social media at an American dentist who shot an iconic lion in Zimbabwe. There are calls for the hunter to be extradited to Zimbabwe and cries for him to be hunted down. Tooth for tooth for the cruel dentist who […]

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  • 4 Aug 2015
    Wilson D. Miscamble

    70 Years Since Hiroshima

    This week will mark the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The American bombings effectively ended the Second World War, killed over 100,000 people, and raised complicated questions about nuclear weapons and the limits of war. In an excerpt from his book The Most Controversial Decision, Wilson D. Miscamble explores the complicated legacy of those events.

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  • 3 Aug 2015
    Terrence R. Guay

    Understanding Business in Europe

    Since publication of The Business Environment of Europe last summer, I made three trips to Europe and spent almost three months working in and travelling around the region. While the reasons for travel were professional and personal, this length of time allowed me to assess the perspectives presented in the book.  Authors writing about a […]

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  • 31 Jul 2015
    Paul W. B. Atkins, Jochen Reb

    Mindfulness in Organizations

    "Mindfulness" is one of those buzzwords in management today. How do we get to the heart of what putting it to work in the workplace can really accomplish? Paul Atkins and Jochen Reb, co-editors of Mindfulness in Organizations have some suggestions.

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  • 28 Jul 2015
    Leila Kawar

    Defending Migrant Rights in French Courts

    This summer, France’s border police have deployed en masse on the French-Italian border. The heightened policing operations aim to prevent the record numbers of migrants who have arrived in Italy over the past six months from crossing a border that – according to the Schengen Agreement signed by both France and Italy – should not […]

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  • 27 Jul 2015
    Robert Adelson

    An Insight into Erard and His Inventions

    The day-to-day existence of a musical instrument builder of past centuries has long been shrouded in mystery. Although their instruments may survive, few other traces of the men and women who toiled in the workshops remain to attest to how they organised their work and dealt with their customers. Imagine for a moment, however, that […]

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  • 21 Jul 2015
    Raphael Cohen-Almagor- 1

    Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side

    Raphael Cohen-Almagor, the author of Confronting the Internet's Dark Side, explains his motivation for exploring the dangerous side of the world wide web. His new book is the first comprehensive book on social responsibility on the Internet.

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