A Mercy by Toni Morrison Synopsis Florens‚ a slave girl‚ lives and works on Jacob Vaark’s rural New York farm. Lina‚ a Native American and fellow labourer on the Vaark farm‚ is one of a handful of survivors of a smallpox plague that destroyed her tribe. Rebekkah arrives on a ship from England to be married to Vaark‚ a man she has never seen. The voices of these characters bereft of their roots and struggling to survive in a new and alien environment filled with danger and disease form A Mercy
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effectively maximize the rate of the reaction. Mr. Dianin then realized that the only thing that would noticeably accelerate the procedure of producing the desired chemical is a strong acid‚ like sulfuric acid (H2SO4)‚ chloric acid (HClO3)‚ hydrobromic acid (HBr)‚ and the most famous of all‚ hydrochloric acid (HCl). The required physical state of the reaction between the two phenol groups and the acetone group in order to produce BPA is condensation‚ the opposite of evaporation. Therefore‚ the chemical structure
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Cited: Crystal‚ David. "2b or Not 2b?" The Guardian. Guardian News and Media‚ 04 July 2008. Web. 19 Feb‚ 2013. Truss‚ Lynne. Eats‚ Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. New York: Gotham‚ 2004. Print. Wiens‚ Kyle. "HBR Blog Network." Harvard Business Review. Harvard Business Publishing‚ 20 July 2012. Web. 19 Feb. 2013.
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Unit 1: Resource for advanced English language learners http://www.youtube.com/user/HarvardBusiness/videos Youtube HBR videos—look for other business-related channels This source of materials seems amazing to me. After a quick review on the material‚ I may admit that it is a good tool for me to develop my English learning in the long term. Harvard Business Review is a prestigious organization that can provide us intensive academic research on a variety of different topics. From this source
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Week 3 – DQ 1 “Analysis is the critical starting point of strategic thinking” – Kenichi Ohmae. What variables interfere so often with our ability to start the analysis aspect of strategic thinking? How important is the analysis? What techniques have you employed or seen successfully employed that may help provide the opportunity to start the analysis? Introduction Strategic thinking is defined as the management’s vision of the company; what it should look like in the future. It is the vision
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The article “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Dr. Clayton M. Christensen provides guidelines to adapt business strategies in life. Nowadays‚ people live busy and they sometimes miss out their own value of life. Importance of the things they would have once said matter the most‚ such as family and spouse‚ are more often forgotten‚ and now people tend to focus more on things that would bring immediate tangible outcomes to them‚ such as working. In contrast‚ events that does not have tangible accomplishments
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Background Walnut Venture Associates is a small group of angel investors with backgrounds in the software industry. RBS is a small software company that makes billing and enterprise management software specifically targeted at other software companies. RBS and Walnut are deciding whether Walnut should invest in RBS‚ and then if they are willing‚ whether RBS finds the terms of the deal satisfactory. This case memo illustrates that the venture capitalists are looking for good managers in a particular
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Recently‚ however‚ new measures of service industries like software and banking suggest that customer loyalty is a more important determinant of profit (see Frederick F. Reichheld and W. Earl Sasser‚ Jr.‚ “Zero Defections: Quality Comes to Services‚” HBR September–October 1990). Reichheld and Sasser estimate that a 5% increase in customer loyalty can produce profit increases from 25% to 85%. They conclude that quality of market share‚ measured in terms of customer loyalty‚ deserves as much attention
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be flexible enough to change themselves with changing circumstances. This requires restructuring of the hierarchies and redesigning of policies to empower the employees to learn quickly and respond to the current organizational demands effectively. HBR case study on HUL depicts how the organization brought about changes in existing organization methods to reclaim its title of ’Employer of Choice’. We can also see this through the lens of the Knowledge workers‚ who are indispensible for an organization
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Practices (Lean) which is applied when demand is supply chains are forecast-driven that implies that they are inventory based. Agile supply chains are more likely to be information based (Fisher‚ M. 1997‚ What is the right supply chain for your product? HBR‚ 2‚ pp105-116). Crocs understanding the dynamics of the industry established an agile network to connect to its retailers. The main objective was to vertically integrate its operations to the best extent possible and exercise an option for it to control
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