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- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Dedications
- Preface
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- Section 1: Getting Down to Business
- Section 2: What Is Economics?
- Section 3: Perfect Competition and Supply and Demand
- Section 4: Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly, and Monopoly
- Section 5: Measuring the Health of the Economy
- Section 6: Government’s Role in Managing the Economy
- Section 7: Cases and Problems
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- Section 1: Misgoverning Corporations: An Overview
- Section 2: The Individual Approach to Ethics
- Section 3: Identifying Ethical Issues
- Section 4: The Organizational Approach to Ethics
- Section 5: Corporate Social Responsibility
- Section 6: Environmentalism
- Section 7: Stages of Corporate Responsibility
- Section 8: Cases and Problems
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- Section 1: What Is an Entrepreneur?
- Section 2: The Place of Small Business in the Business Landscape
- Section 3: What Industries Are Small Businesses In?
- Section 4: Advantages and Disadvantages of Business Ownership
- Section 5: Starting a Business
- Section 6: The Business Plan
- Section 7: How to Succeed in Managing a Business
- Section 8: Cases and Problems
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- Section 1: What Is a Product?
- Section 2: Where Do Product Ideas Come From?
- Section 3: Identifying Business Opportunities
- Section 4: Understand Your Industry
- Section 5: Forecasting Demand
- Section 6: Breakeven Analysis
- Section 7: Product Development
- Section 8: Protecting Your Idea
- Section 9: Cases and Problems
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- Section 1: Operations Management in Manufacturing
- Section 2: Facility Layouts
- Section 3: Managing the Production Process in a Manufacturing Company
- Section 4: Graphical Tools: PERT and Gantt Charts
- Section 5: The Technology of Goods Production
- Section 6: Operations Management for Service Providers
- Section 7: Producing for Quality
- Section 8: Cases and Problems
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