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The Green Bean Coffee House: An exploration of the specialty coffee Industry and sustainable business practices
Hunt, Evan - 2009
, as well as enables the buyer and producer, as business partners, to set the price and production standards.The coffee … house itself is the perfect medium for exploring the principles and benefits of sustainable business. Not only because of … information gather from primary and secondary sources I have formulated a fully developed “sustainable” business model that goes …
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Family-Owned Businesses: Determinants of Business Success and Profitability
Wallace, Jeffrey S. - 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine many factors associated with family-owned businesses that lead to business … success and profitability. The panel data used in this study came from the 1997 and 2000 waves of the National Family Business … Study (NFBS). Many independent variables from the 1997 wave (e.g., age, gender, managerial activities, business size, home …
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Essays on India’s Economy: Growth and Innovation
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common themes of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from August 2010 to June 2014, are issues of growth and innovation in India, considered in two sequential parts, each part...
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Essays on India in a Global Context    
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common theme of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from October 2010 to May 2014, is the issue of how India is finding its place in the world, after a history of colonization...
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Essays on India’s Economy: Perspectives on Policy Reform
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common theme of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from June 2010 to March 2014, is the India’s struggles with economic policy reform. The essays are organized into...
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Essays on India’s Political Economy    
Singh, Nirvikar - Center for Global, International and Regional Studies, … - 2014
This is a collection of essays written for the Financial Express, an Indian financial daily. The common theme of these essays, which cover a period of almost four years, from September 2010 to June 2014, is the issue of governance in India, and how politics combines with societal and...
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Outsourcing and Pass-Through
Hellerstein, Rebecca; Villas-Boas, Sofia B. - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, … - 2010
A large share of international trade occurs through intra-firm transactions. We show that this common cross-border organization of the firm has implications for the well-documented incomplete transmission of shocks across such borders. We present new evidence of an inverse relationship between a...
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First-Run Smoking Presentations in U.S. Movies 1999-2003
Polansky, Jonathan R.; Glantz, Stanton A. PhD - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2004
Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic heights in 2002, topping levels observed a half century earlier. Tobacco’s comeback in movies has serious public health implications, because smoking on screen stimulates...
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Smoking Presentation Trends in U.S. Movies 1991-2008
Titus, Kori; Glantz, Stanton PhD; Polansky, Jonathan R. - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2009
Tobacco presentations in commercial motion pictures are of serious public health concern because cumulative exposure to this imagery causes large numbers of adolescents to start smoking. An estimated 52% of adolescent smoking initiation is attributed to this exposure. To examine trends in the...
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Making Sense of Non-Binding Retail-Price Recommendations
Gärtner, Dennis L; Buehler, Stefan - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2009
We model non-binding retail-price recommendations (RPRs) as a communication device facilitating coordination in vertical supply relations. Assuming both repeated vertical trade and asymmetric information about production costs, we show that RPRs may be part of a relational contract,...
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