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What Is Outsourcing?

Outsourcing became quite the buzz word of the new economy. In the face of stricter competition and a need to deliver quality goods and services faster and at a lower price, companies started to focus on their “key business” and then contract other organizations to handle support functions. For...

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What Is Quality Control?

In a competitive market place, companies must make the customer feel happy in order to make them loyal to the brand. One of the best ways to do this is to give them quality products and services. In order to achieve this, the company must invest in quality control: the process by which the products...

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What Is a Personal Account?

A personal account is a relationship between a bank and an individual. As opposed to a business account or a commercial account, the owner of the account is a single person (or several individuals for joint personal accounts). More so, the purpose of the account is for personal use and is not...

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California State University, Northridge

California State University, Northridge (CSUN) is a public university located in San Fernando Valley, Northridge, California. A member of the 23-campus California State University system, CSUN was founded in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College. It was only in 1972 that it adopted its current...

10 Things We Wish Had Never Been Invented

10 Things We Wish Had Never Been Invented

Some things might have been better off not being invented. Now we're not denying that these come with some good ... convenience, connectedness, etc. We're just saying... sometimes the bad seems to outweigh the good.

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What Is a Merger?

A merger refers to the situation when two companies are absorbed into a single entity. Stockholders are allowed to keep equal interest in the new company—unlike in acquisitions, where one of the companies buys into the second company’s stock to have greater control. Only a fraction of merger...

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Florida Southern College

Florida Southern College is the oldest private college in Florida whose Methodist Church affiliation has shaped its history and traditions. Located in suburban Lakeland, Florida, Florida Southern has been cited in the 2010 Edition of the Princeton Review as one of the Best 371 Colleges in the U.S....

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Florida Memorial University

Florida Memorial University is a private co-educational university and is one of the oldest academic institutions in Florida. Founded in 1879, the university was the product of the merger between Florida Baptist Institute and Florida Baptist Academy. The only Historically Black University in Miami,...

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How to Avoid Online Scams

Though Nigerian email scams may be the butt of late-night comedian jokes, online fraud is still alive and well. Scams involving individuals, such as identity theft and financial scams, cost their victims nearly 240 million in 2007 over four times as much as they did in 2004. Sadly, the numbers...

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Top Business Schools

Here's our list of the top schools for undergraduate business majors looking to pursue a degree in business. These schools are ranked for 2009 according to the overall quality of education and prestige of the program. We found the best business schools to be the ones that best prepared their...