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vii, 357 pages ; 24 cm
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"A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley. Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent year. Meanwhile, corporations continue to amass wealth and power at a dizzying rate, recklessly pursuing profit while leaving society to sort out the costs. In For Profit, law professor William Magnuson argues that the story of the corporation didn't...
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“Corporations Hyperlinked” follows the life cycle of a corporation from pre-incoporporation activities through dissolution.
General legal rules are included under the common law, modern law, state law and federal law.
Federal Statutes covered include the Securities Act of 1933, Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the Williams Act.
Also included are abuse of the corporate structure, director duties, officer duties, shareholder rights, ethics...
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xxiv, 471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Traces the two-hundred-year history of corporate America's battle to achieve constitutional freedom from federal control, examining the civil rights debates and key events that shaped the controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision to extend constitutional protections to businesses.
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In this new edition of his classic book, David Korten illuminates the convergence of ideological, political, and technological forces that have driven an ever-greater concentration of economic and political power in a handful of corporations and financial institutions and left the market system blind to all but its own short-term financial gains. As he vividly documents, the social and environmental consequences of these efforts have been devastating....
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L'importance du travail n'est nullement à mettre en doute. Comme le pensait Kant, il satisfait la conscience morale et la fierté humaine. Au-delà du besoin existentiel, il représente un véritable devoir moral. S'il occupe l'esprit et offre des raisons de vivre, s'il éloigne l'ennui, le vice, le besoin, s'il permet de se sentir utile socialement, il permet aussi à chacun de s'épanouir et de s'accomplir. Il encourage l'effort, développe le...
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An eminent political thinker uses our history with states and corporations -- "artificial agents" to which we have granted immense power -- to predict how AI will remake society. Countless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will upend our world, revolutionizing not just work but society overall. Yet according to political philosopher and historian David...
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As students grow into young adults, they enter the world with the hopes and dreams of a successful future. Part of financial success is the ability to make good economic decisions. The state of the economy affects the job market, educational loans, and how much money people decide to spend or save. Readers will learn the difference between command and market economies, how different types of business ownership affect the United States and global economies,...
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For American lawyers and law firms looking to build business with Asian corporations. "Masahiro Morimoto's EDISCOVERY-JAPAN is a must-read for American lawyers seeking to better understand their Japanese clients and the challenges and opportunities in Asian-language eDiscovery. The author gives us the benefit of more than ten years of experience in Japanese eDiscovery, as well as his insights on the business and cultural obstacles that need to be...
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"The first comprehensive look at how politicians let the entertainment industry bilk taxpayers, hijack public policy and hurt economic investment, starting and ending with Trump. It is widely believed, that a city in possession of a fortune must be in want of a partner who will drive economic development and thus be worth a substantial dowry of tax abatements, subsidies, and grants. These partners always prove faithless, though, especially when it...
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White Spot, a popular BC restaurant chain, solicits hamburger concepts from third and fourth grade students and one of the student's ideas becomes a feature on the kids' menu. Home Depot donates playground equipment to an elementary school, and the ribbon-cutting ceremony culminates in a community swathed in corporate swag, temporary tattoos, and a new "Home Depot song" written by a teacher and sung by the children. Kindergarten students return home...
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The size of an organization and its ability to innovate are known to have an inverse relationship. Small startups innovate quickly, while large enterprises develop new products with a time to market that is longer than the average person's job role. While many areas of the economy are seeing limited growth, the startup community is thriving, and large enterprises have taken notice. Among them, the US Postal Service, General Electric, American Express,...
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Corporations are the most powerful entities on the planet. Unfortunately, many have long records of unprecedented and unbridled environmental degradation, social transgressions, and governance secrecy. But you can do something about it. Because public companies are beholden to their shareholders, if you own stock, you have influence. And even if you own shares in a mutual fund or invest through a workplace-sponsored retirement account or 401(k),...
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A Valuable Meeting and Procedural Reference for Business Corporations, Boards, and Shareholders.
This handy and valuable reference book bridges a large informational gap for those who are preparing for, leading, and attending board of directors and shareholders business corporation meetings. The author simultaneously draws upon the three principal sources of meeting authority on the subject including
a sample of state for-profit statutory law
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An overdue indictment of government, industry, and faith groups that twist science for their own gain.
During the next thirty years, the American public will suffer from a rampage against reason by special interests in government, commerce, and the faith industry, and the rampage has already begun. In Junk Science, Dan Agin offers a response-a stinging condemnation of the egregious and constant warping of science for ideological gain.
In this provocative,...
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The world has witnessed three step functions in technological change: mechanization, electrification, and computerization. These industrial revolutions led to massive increases in productivity and thus the need for fewer workers. With each of these technological breakthroughs, the power balance between companies and workers shifted heavily to companies. The abuses of that power by companies instigated employee unrest and sometimes even armed uprisings....
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Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from inside even the largest organizations.
Corporate Explorers are part entrepreneurs, using innovation disciplines to jump start cutting-edge ideas, and part change leaders, capable of...
20) Producing Security: Multinational Corporations, Globalization, and the Changing Calculus of Conflict
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Stephen G. Brooks is Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University, where his dissertation received the American Political Science Association's Helen Dwight Reid Award.
Scholars and statesmen have debated the influence of international commerce on war and peace for thousands of years. Over the centuries, analysts have generally treated the questions "Does international commerce influence security?"...
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