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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

” The morning prayers of the local population could be heard echoing through the loudspeakers outside the large 25-foot concrete T-walls topped with barbed wire that surround our compound, a Forward Operating Base within an Afghan Air Force base. The name scribbled in the “From” section of the label was not one I recognized.

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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

This news followed the bankruptcy in March of Wuxi Suntech , the main operating subsidiary of the world''s largest maker of solar panels, after it defaulted on a $541 million bond payment. In parallel, from 2004 to 2011, U.S. In 2011, the U.S. A Rise Fueled by Subsidies. percent annually, while similar U.S.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Antitrust and competition policy are seeing renewed interest , including recent hearings on the subject by the Federal Trade Commission. But the rise of big companies — and the resulting concentration of industries, profits, and wages — goes well beyond tech firms and is about far more than antitrust policy.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Employees were better paid than the marketplace, thus forcing many to stay or not question policies.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

There has been a dramatic shift in mentality, and it doesn''t take much to work out the date on which this happened: September 11, 2001. The scale of the lobbying effort to defeat these privacy regulations was so unprecedented that it caused EU Commissioner Viviane Reding to say that "I have not seen such a heavy lobbying operation.".

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