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The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in Americas Public Companies
Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women’s progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly slow. The number of women CEOs reached 4 in 1999 only to slide back to 2 in 2001. Meanwhile, while not reaching anything approaching parity,... | | How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003Get a first-hand look at the freshest upgrade to Office in years. In addition to beautiful visual updates, Office 2003 offers greater compatibility between applications, significant changes to Outlook, SmartTags throughout the suite for greater consistency, and much more. How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003 provides... | | No Logo : Taking Aim at the Brand BulliesIf I squint, tilt my head, and shut my left eye, all I can see out the window is 1932, straight down to the lake. Brown warehouses, oatmeal-colored smokestacks, faded signs painted on brick walls advertising long-discontinued brands: "Lovely," "Gaywear." This is the old industrial Toronto of garment factories, furriers and... |
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Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit
As night settled on April 20, 2010, a series of explosions rocked Deepwater Horizon, the immense semisubmersible drilling platform leased by British Petroleum, located 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. The ensuing inferno claimed 11 lives, and it would rage uncontained for two days, until its wreckage sank to a final resting place nearly a... | | Physiology of CottonCotton production today is not to be undertaken frivolously if one expects to profit by its production. If cotton production is to be sustainable and produced profitably, it is essential to be knowledgeable about the growth and development of the cotton plant and in the adaptation of cultivars to the region as well as the technology available.... | | Web ArchivingThe public information available on the Web today is larger than information distributed on any other media. The raw nature of Web content, the unpredictable remote changes that can affect it, the wide variety of formats concerned, and the growth in data-driven websites make the preservation of this material a challenging task, requiring specific... |
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Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others
Cheryl Bachelder joined an ailing restaurant chain and turned it into the darling of the industry—by daring to serve the people in her organization well.
When Bachelder was named CEO of Popeyes in the fall of 2007, guest visits had been declining for years, restaurant sales and profit trends were... | | Managing Exports: Navigating the Complex Rules, Controls, Barriers, and Laws“We have met the enemy, and they are us,” said Pogo the Possum. Nowhere is this more true than in exporting.
Exporters walk a narrow line between ever-changing government regulations (ours and others), complex product standards, transportation changes, exchange rate fluctuations, and punitive import duties—all played... | | Fluid Volume Monitoring with Glucose Dilution
Academic medicine can be very satisfying. I am pleased when I see one of
my residents takes excellent care of a seriously injured patient. I am pleased
when a junior member of the faculty publishes a really good paper. I am
pleased when the program attracts an especially good group of residents.
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Drupal 6 Site BlueprintsDrupal is a powerful CMS used to build all kinds of web sites. But when you're urgently tasked with building a specific kind of site, it's not always obvious which plugins to use or where to begin. If I could show you simple directions to create Drupal web sites for personal or business use within a day, without the initial need to bother about the... | | And Dignity for All: Unlocking Greatness with Values-Based LeadershipAnd Dignity for All is about leading with values, leading by example, and - in so doing - unleashing the astonishing commitment and innovation that are buried within your organization right now. Discover how Jim Despain and his colleagues used values-based management to transform Caterpillar's Track-Type Tractors... | | |
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