make profits in order to compensate its shareholders (Friedman‚ 1970; Henderson‚ 2001; Jensen‚ 2002; Levitt‚ 1958; Sundaram & Inkpen‚ 2004). On the contrary‚ especially during the last years‚ many supporters of CSR came up with the argument that CSR provides a company with a series of specific benefits that very often will outweigh the expenditures. Some are even of the opinion that CSR is necessary for business‚ both from an economic and a social point of view (Brown & Fraser‚ 2006; Drucker‚ 1984; Kotler
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What is intelligence? Sattler describes a famous symposium conducted in 1921 at which 13 psychologists gave 13 different definitions of intelligence (1992‚ pp. 44-45). Some of these definitions are paraphrased below: Intelligence is. . . the tendency to take and maintain a direction. . . judgment‚ otherwise called good sense‚ practical sense‚ initiative. . . everything intellectual can be reduced to . . . relations or correlates. . . adjustment or adaptation to the environment. . . global capacity
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to the schools. A total of six schools took part in this project. The project was carried out from July 1993 to February 1994. It was a mentorship-based project with seasoned Internet users from various bodies assigned to the schools to teach and provide technical support in using the Internet. Lessons learned from the project contributed to the implementation of Internet for MOE’s officers and schools. In May 1994‚ MOE’s corporate network was linked to the Internet‚ making every PC Internet-enabled
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philosophy. These flaws included but were by no means limited to‚ proof for the existence of God and the interaction between mind and body. This essay will highlight the advantages of Spinoza’s monism over Descartes’ dualism by looking at Spinoza’s response to these issues. First‚ in order to consider the advantages of Spinoza’s substance monism over Descartes’ dualism it is necessary to show how each philosopher demonstrates their substance dualism or substance monism. Tim Crane defines
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is no visual effect for the person listening. When there is sound as well as some kind of visual movement one is more interested in what someone is trying to say. Through body language one can tell if a person is sad or happy‚ glad or mad. Body language conveys a lot of expression to are inner feelings and thoughts. Body language can show many things about you and the way you think. It can also show the way a person reacts to what you try to convey to them. If the listener isn’t responding one must
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The Review of All’s Well That Ends Well 周申晴 20124238 All’s Well that Ends Well is one of the representing pieces of William Shakespeare in his second period of literature‚ which is usually called “problem play” among his literature works. In the former half of this semester‚ we have had a systematic study of the excerpts of Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet‚ two universally acknowledged tragedies‚ which represent the peak of his literature. Among his collection of 38 plays‚ four great Shakespearean tragedies
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Provide Reception Services 1 Understand the purpose of reception services in a business environment: 1.1 Explain the purpose of the receptionist role as the first point of contact between the public/client and an organisation: The receptionist that the customer meets/speaks to first needs to give a good impression of the company‚ they need to appear very professional‚ this can be portrayed in many different ways including personal appearance and how you are seen to act towards customers. If on
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CASE STUDY III.2 IKEA: expanding through franchising to the South American market? It is the beginning of 2011‚ and Ingvar kamprad‚ founder of the Swedish furniture retailing giant IkEA‚ is concerned ’his’ firm may be growing too quickly. he used to be in favour of rapid expansion‚ but he has now started to worry that the firm may be forced to close stores in the event of a sustained economic downturn. on the other hand‚ IkEA is active in nearly all the world’s con- tinents‚ though to a lesser
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Zoo reorganized to provide regular greeting cards (Suzy’s Zoo Greeting Cards) and licensing agreements (Suzy’s Zoo Studio). Licensing proved to be a gigantic success‚ and total sales went from ~$6 million in 1992 to $100 million in 2005.
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PROVIDE DISPLAYS IN SCHOOLS 1.1 Describe the school policy for displays Our school policy for displays is quite dated and maybe updated soon. It describes why we have displays in school and how this impacts on the children. There is a section on organising and actively involving children in the displayed work. We have no rules on backing or mounting. It is left to whoever is doing the display to pick and choose their colours and mounts. We are asked to take care
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