What is Competitive Debating? AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE ON COMPETITIVE DEBATING SKILLS Introduction Debating is about developing your communication skills. It is about assembling and organizing effective arguments, persuading and entertaining an audience, and using the language to convince people that your arguments outweigh your opposition's. Debating is not about personal abuses, irrational attacks or purely emotional appeals. A debate usually involves two sides talking about a topic (often
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PROJECT POSTMOTERM REPORT DUBAI PALM ISLAND PROJECT Action Items (Lessons Learned) 3 The JCXSK Group Dubai Palm Island Project Postmortem Report BACKGROUND The Palm Jumeirah is a large artificial island built off the coast of Dubai that contains residential, leisure and entertainment facilities. Between 2001 and 2004, it was the world’s largest and most ambitious project of its kind, involving over 25km2 of new land being created and extending Dubai’s beaches by about 78 km; twice the size
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OTICON ‐ THE DISORGANISED ORGANISATION1 Background Oticon, a Danish company founded in 1904, was the first hearing instrument company in the world. In the 1970s, it was the world’s number one manufacturer of ‘behind the ear’ hearing aids. However, as the market for ‘in the ear’ products grew in the 1970s and 1980s, its fortunes plummeted and it lost money and market share. In 1987, so poor was the company’s performance that it lost half of its equity.
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Technology Brokering and Innovation in a Product Development Firm Author(s): Andrew Hargadon and Robert I. Sutton Reviewed work(s): Source: Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 716-749 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. on behalf of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2393655 . Accessed: 29/01/2013 01:51 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available
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July 2002 • NREL/TP-550-30769 A Literature Review of the Effects of Natural Light on Building Occupants L. Edwards and P. Torcellini National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Boulevard Golden, Colorado 80401-3393 NREL is a U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory Operated by Midwest Research Institute • Battelle • Bechtel Contract No. DE-AC36-99-GO10337 July 2002 • NREL/TP-550-30769 A Literature Review of the Effects of Natural Light on Building Occupants
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mine3161 GaRZweiler Open Pit Mine Rhineland, Germany Nicholas Duim 20781646 * Executive Summary The Garzweiler mine is located within the Rhineland basin west of Cologne, Germany. The largest single lignite or brown coal deposit in Europe is found in Rhineland which covers an area of around 2,500 km2. Since lignite is the youngest variety of all coals, forming in the early to middle Miocene age about 15Ma. Several coal seams are formed and join up in the center of the Rhenish basin to
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0262-1711.htm Integrating leadership development and succession planning best practices Kevin S. Groves College of Business and Economics, California State University, Los Angeles, California, USA Abstract Purpose – Organizations often fail to utilize managerial personnel effectively for leadership development and succession planning systems, and many execute these critical practices through separate
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that stem from valuable and hard-toimitate resources or capabilities. Accordingly, we will focus much of our energy on the question of how to build, acquire or ally to gain access to such capabilities while maximizing the value that accrues to the company. Given the uncertainty inherent in such investments, we will explore how real options analysis may assist managers in making strategic investments of this type. Learning Objectives Our primary goal is to synthesize the set of tools and knowledge students
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housing crisis of 2008. From this crisis stemmed a major banking crisis that has lead to financial institutions implementing tighter lending guidelines for business and personal consumers. This has greatly affected GM since the company, along with many other auto making companies, rely so heavily on short term returns to fund such a complicated value chain
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City GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS MBA Program STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PAPER XTEP Company Advised by: Professor Winnie M. Constantino Prepared by: LIN LI April 11th, 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………7 I. COMPANY BACKGROUND..………………………………………………………………………………………………..9 1. Xtep Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………9
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