"The military, prison, and financial policies of the U.S. government are interrelated, creating a social system that is repressive and offensive to human dignity for people who experience it, especially the marginalized, the poor, the 'Third World'. The poor in America are filling the prisons and the 'Third World' are the fodder on the other end of the bombs in America's wars. In categorizing the abuse of power that is undertaken by institutions operating 'above the law' or through State privilege, the deprival of life by government policies through war and the deprival of liberty to individuals through imprisonment are particularly fundamental problems that relate to the basic human rights every person should enjoy equally. Capitalism is being used as a justification for these actions historically by American policies, leadership, and their rhetoric... When you discuss what the alternatives to the 'corruption' that favors the 1% or represents only a fraction of the 1% who are permitted an active or consequential role in politics, it seems that #ows is suggesting an alternative of direct, active, particpative democracy that is also interested in a reform of policy according to moral standards." + Understanding #ows - Noam Chomsky Interview

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The hegemony of the MNC capitalist system
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Challenging the State Monopoly on Violence - Submitted by: Jeffrey Scott

Max Weber’s statement that the State has ‘a monopoly over the legitimate use of force’ illustrates the degree that his philosophical frameworks were used in the Western academic environment as a counter-force to Marxist interpretation. Weber’s writings on the interrelationship between capitalism and religion point to a conservative stewardship reflected in State bureaucracies, whereas Marxism inspired violent, insurrectionary forces worldwide. In monopolizing the “legitimate” use of violence in the State, Weber establishes the State as beyond its own law and also beyond common morality. Yet, the State inherently cannot exist outside of a belief system in the mind – it is a psychological or ideological concept.

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Judicial interpretation as retroactive legislation - Submitted by: Nicole Briggs

In 1998, the House of Lords decided the case of Kleinwort Benson v Lincoln City Council under appeal in a manner that established the legal precedent of restitution and payment under mistake of law. Lord Browne-Wilkinson stated in the case, ‘In truth judges make and change law. The whole of the common law is judge made.’ Thus, in establishing an error in previous interpretation of the law and setting legal precedent, the judges by course of nature determine the actual social application of legal statutes in business, government, or other relationships between citizens and organizations referenced under legislative accords bound by Common Law.

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SpaceX: The Next High-Tech Industry Boom
Financing Space Exploration
Astro-technology and Orbital Space Communities - Submitted by: Thomas Evers

Since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, the International Space Program has advanced on the basis of the collective scientific knowledge of humanity, with leadership generally acknowledged to have been driven by peaceful, cooperative research. Today, after the retirement of the Space Shuttle in the United States, a new era of space exploration is dawning, largely expected to be driven by private enterprise. SpaceX is one of the leading companies in this new paradigm, and Astrotech (formerly Spacehab Inc., NASDAQ: ASTC) is an example of a small, publicly traded company involved in the business of space exploration, mission supplies, research and development of space exploration technologies.

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‎'The methods of control in wage systems, differ substantially from those in chattel systems. For example, in his book, "Disciplined Minds", American physicist and writer Jeff Schmidt points out that professionals are trusted to run organisations in the interests of their employers. The key word is ’trust’. Because employers cannot be on hand to manage every decision, professionals are trained to “ensure that each and every detail of their work favours the right interests – or skewers the disfavoured ones” in the absence of overt control.'

‎'Schmidt continues: "The resulting professional is an obedient thinker, an intellectual property whom employers can trust to experiment, theorize, innovate and create safely within the confines of an assigned ideology." Schmit goes on to show with statistical evidence that subordination to elite ideology, including aggression, is greater among those with more schooling, a conclusion corroborated in other studies as well. Nevertheless, some theorists have placed people like managers and professionals within a "managerial" or "coordinator class" somewhere in between wage slaves and capital, because they tend to "monopolize empowering labor in their jobs - while others, who we called the working class, do overwhelmingly only rote, obedient, tedious labor."'
+ Read More - "Wage Slavery"

'Fordlandia isn't just the story of a plantation; it's a story about Ford's ego. As disaster after disaster struck, Ford continued to pour money into the project. Not one drop of latex from Fordlandia ever made it into a Ford car. But the more it failed, the more Ford justified the project in idealistic terms. "It increasingly was justified as a work of civilization, or as a sociological experiment," Grandin says. One newspaper article even reported that Ford's intent wasn't just to cultivate rubber, but to cultivate workers and human beings.'
+ NPR Report - Fordlandia

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Arianna Huffington is the featured blogger at AOL
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Arianna Huffington: Power Politics & the Future of News - Submitted by: Stephanie Grant

Arianna Huffington currently serves as President and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which following the acquisition of her website in 2011 by AOL, includes responsibility for a number of associated online properties owned by the multi-media conglomerate. (AOL, 2011) Huffington’s leadership and organization ability was clearly recognized by AOL at the time of the acquisition, and she appears to have taken on even more responsibility at the new company than she had when The Huffington Post was independent. Arianna Huffington recently became embroiled in a media turmoil related to corporate management at AOL when she effectively fired Michael Arrington, the editor and founder of the popular ‘TechCrunch’ blog which had also been ac...

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New Product Launches in the Global Marketplace - Submitted by: Walt Sonnabend

Building brand identity and launching nеw products in an integrated global marketplace represents a challenge for modern multinational companies with an existing corporate presence in developed economies that are seeking to expand operations through entering emerging markets. Multinational compаnіеs dedicate a trеmеndous amount of tіmе, еconomіc, аnd mаnаgеrіаl resources to launching their existing brands, products, and services in new markets. The fundamental reason for this is the potential ROI that emerging markets offer for expanding sales, revenue, and profit to the company.

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$140 million or about $558,000 per room to restore?
The Watergate Hotel Auction
PB Capital and Monument Reality in D.C. - Submitted by: Raymond Schach

The recent foreclosure, auction, and sale of the landmark Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. is an opportunity for students of auction theory to conduct a case study on the effectiveness of the auction process and operated by the bank, and to determine why the process failed. Secondly, the case study will inquire into possibilities that could have changed the outcome of the process, maximizing the revenue for the bank who in this instance was selling one of America’s trademarks. The essay will also examine the way common value auction theory can be related as an equation, which variables condition the bidding range, and what auction participants can do to estimate the cost of winning the auction.

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Profit & Business Ethics - Corporate Bailouts and Moral Hazard - Submitted by: Jeffrey Scott

In his New York Time essay entitled ‘The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits’ (1970), Milton Friedman wrote, “There is one and only one social responsibility of business -- to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.” (Friedman, 1970) This definition appears on one level as semantic and technical, as it differentiates business from politics, religion, education, medicine, law, and other disciplines as an...
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Definition of Business Ethics - Corporate Governance in the Era of Globalization - Submitted by: Jeffrey Scott

Following the international economic crisis of 2007-2009 which required unprecedented financial intervention by governments in market economies to save “To Big to Fail” (TBTF) businesses such as banks, insurance agencies, and large industrial manufacturers in the U.S., U.K., and E.U., business management practices have been under pressure due to ethical concerns. The definition of business ethics is often under debate between academics and professionals, as well as the extent that businesses should be motivated and organized around ethical concerns. The...
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Wellbutrin Class Action - Teva Pharmaceuticals Marketing Campaign Questioned - Submitted by: Meredith Jones-W...

Recently, a class action lawsuit was filed against Teva Pharmaceuticals due to problems that patients who had been prescribed the drug Budeprion XL / Bupropion XL were experiencing. Budeprion  / Bupropion is also known and sold under the names of Wellbutrin, Wellbutrin SR, Wellbutrin XL, and Zyban. The drug is classified as an anti-depressant, and is used popularly as a medication that is intended to help one treat mental illness such as depression or in some instances to quit smoking. “Bupropion works by inhibiting the reuptake of dopamine, serotonin, and...
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Creative Problem-solving - Calm the Mind and Promote Awareness at Work - Submitted by: Meredith Jones-W...

Design groups face unique challenges in conceptualizing creative ideas and presenting them to clients in stages during the production process and “creative problem-solving” techniques can facilitate this, making office and workplace operations much more efficient. Yet, not only artistic or design related businesses can benefit from the application of creative problem-solving techniques. Both public service organizations such as government enterprise and bureaucracy, as well as education and non-profit groups, can introduce creative problem-solving...
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Theory of Constraints - Artificial Borders, the Environment, & Production - Submitted by: Raymond Schach

In the Theory of Constraints, business managers must identify bottlenecks in the production process in advance in order to build proactive solutions that increase the efficiency of a plant or office. In businesses that are based in selling products and services that they also produce, the project manager can apply systems theory to view the entire production system and organization of the company as a system.
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The PACE Act of 1984 - UK Border agency acts w/ police powers - search and seizure - Submitted by: David Marshall

The PACE Act of 1984 regulates the use of power and authority by the various branches of the police force, but some agencies with police-like powers such as Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs Service and the UK Border Agency formed in 2008 are not regulated by its statutes. Broadly, the PACE Act of 1984 addresses the following police powers and corresponding rights of citizens:
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StartX - Stanford Student Startup Accelerator

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"StartX (formerly SSE Labs) is the Stanford student start-up accelerator designed and developed to provide a place for the best Stanford founders to quickly develop... StartX has accelerated the development of some of Stanford's best entrepreneurs, in fields from solar energy to Web 2.0 gaming. Our companies have won business plan competitions, become funded, been acquired, and been covered extensively in the press."
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How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

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'Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas. Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked. Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest.'
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Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?

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"Two founders start the company. They each take 2500 shares. There are 5000 shares outstanding, so each founder owns half. They hire four employees in year one. These four employees each take 250 shares. There are 6000 shares outstanding. They hire another 20 employees in year two. Each one takes 50 shares... By the time the company has six layers, you have given out 10,000 shares. Each founder ends up owning 25%. Each employee layer owns 10% collectively."
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The Man Who Bought North Dakota

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"Hamm is the man who bought the Bakken, the shale formation that’s the biggest U.S. oil find since Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay in 1968. The Bakken stretches from central North Dakota into the northeastern corner of Montana and up into southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. He leased his first acres and drilled his first wells in North Dakota nearly 20 years ago, and stayed with it when others gave up. Today, Continental, with a stock market value of $13.5 billion."
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Former White House CIO Vivek Kundra joins Salesforce

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"Cloud services leader Salesforce has hired former U.S. chief information officer Vivek Kundra as its executive vice president of emerging markets, the company announced today. Kundra made headlines as the federal government’s first-ever CIO when he was hired by the Obama administration in March 2009. While in his job, Kundra managed $80 billion in technology investments and instituted a 25-point plan to reform and restructure the government’s IT management."
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Can non-dilutable stock (or equivalent) be issued?

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"You cannot issue non-dilutable stock since every investment round will add more stock to the pool. You can have a non-dilution clause, in the financing paperwork, that ups the number of options/stock, at each round, so that investors are not diluted by that rounds investment. That is common."
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10 Fortune 500 Companies That Started With Next to Nothing

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"While, there are still millions of entrepreneurs and people that start their own successful companies, they are typically small to medium-sized at best, or they reach their growth capacity within several years... The following examples are businesses which have grown so large to be included in the Fortune 500, or the world’s largest 500 companies – but which have started from the humblest beginnings."
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How Convertible Debt Works

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"Convertible debt is a type of security frequently issued by startups when raising seed capital. With convertible debt, the startup issues the seed investor a promissory note, for the investment amount, that contains a conversion feature. The conversion feature is the mechanism by which the debt (the promissory note) will convert to equity (new shares for the investor) upon a future event."
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Seedcamp - Venture Capital Startup Collective

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"Seedcamp was created to jumpstart the entrepreneurial community in Europe by connecting next generation developers and entrepreneurs with over 1200 mentors from a top-tier network of company builders; including seed investors, serial entrepreneurs, product experts, HR and PR specialists, marketers, lawyers, recruiters, journalists and venture capitalists."
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SproutBox - A New Approach To Venture Capital

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"SproutBox launches a new company every three months. During a 10 month cycle each company (affectionately known as a Sprout) receives $200-$250K worth of services and just enough cash to stay focused. By mitigating initial distractions (fundraising, hiring, workspace, benefits, legal, etc.), SproutBox allows entrepreneurs to build great products."
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