15.665B Power and Negotiation (MIT)
This course is designed to provide you with a competitive advantage in negotiation. You will learn and practice the technical skills and analytic frameworks that are necessary to negotiate successfully with peers from other top business schools, and you will learn methods for developing the powerful social capital you will need to rise in the executive ranks of any organization. In this course, you will learn to successfully face the challenge of negotiating materially rewarding deals while also
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No case for business as usual?
Mr Craig Bennett, Deputy Director of the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown, Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research, and Mr Paul Turner, Head of Sustainable Development for Lloyds Banking Group's Wholesale Division, agree businesses need to embrace "radical" change.
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Careers Education Guidance in a Nutshell (DfES, 2004). Available to download at: http://www.cegnet.co.uk/resource/content/files/444.pdf [accessed 26 January 2007]
Careers Education Guidance and Work-related Learning: A briefing for teachers in initial training (DfES, 2005). Available to download at: http://dev.cegnet.co.uk/resource/content/files/677.pdf [accessed 26 Janaury 2007]

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Lavalettee, M. (1999) A Thing of the Past? Child Labour in Britain 1800 to the Present, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool.
Marshall, T.H. (1965) ‘Citizenship and Social Class’ in Class, Citizenship and Social Development: Essays by T.H. Marshall.
Post, J.E. (2000) Meeting the Challenge of Global Corporate Citizenship, Boston College Centre f
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The learning outcomes for this unit are:

  • Critically appreciate the significance of claims made for ‘global corporate citizenship’.

  • Understand the nature of work and ‘social citizenship’.

  • Recognize the difference between ‘acts citizenship’ and ‘status citizenship’.

  • Be able to assess the ‘ethical dimension’ to arguments about citizenship.

  • See the relevance of historical compari
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Using the US and Mexico as the main example, this unit examines how inequalities in access to material wealth can lead to border tensions. You will also learn how many developed economies are now reliant on immigrant labour to perform jobs that their own citizens do not want to consider. How equal is the globalised world?
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Alexander, G. (2002) eGaia: Growing a Peaceful, Sustainable Earth through Communications, Florida, Lighthouse Books.

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Here you will explore how different families have different ideas about how work in the home should be divided. You will also investigate the diversity of families. We will see how any discussion of the division of labour has to recognise that families differ in terms of shape and size.
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Here you will explore how different families have different ideas about how work in the home should be divided. You will also investigate the diversity of families. We will see how any discussion of the division of labour has to recognise that families differ in terms of shape and size.
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A Year in Focus - Assessing Gordon Brown Part 2
 Steven Fielding

In this podcast Doctor Steven Fielding takes a look back at Gordon Brown's first half-term in office.

In Part 2, Doctor Fielding looks at the election that never was and the fallout for the Prime Minister and his cabinet. He also c
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Making a difference
 Labour MP for Gedling and Minister of State (Policing, Crime and Security) Vernon Coaker talks about how politicians can make a difference locally and nationally.

He talks about the pressures of national policy work and his challenging portfolio.

Mr Coaker was speaking in the seminar series hosted by the Centre for British Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations.


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Gordon Brown's election pledges
 In this video Professor Paul Heywood analyses the Labour Party's election pledges, announced by Gordon Brown at a recent visit to The University of Nottingham.

Visiting the University's Jubilee Campus on Saturday, March 27th, Gordon Brown pledged to secure the nation's economic recovery, raise family living standards, build a high-tech knowledge economy, protect frontline services and strengthen fairness in communities.

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JHU Master's Degree in Intelligence Analysis, Bascom "Dit" Talley
Bascom "Dit" Talley, faculty advisor and academic coordinator for the Division of Public Safety Leadership at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, discusses the Master's Degree in Intelligence Analysis.
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The long hard road to democracy and social justice
A lecture given by retired Labour MP Tony Benn at Wolfson College, Oxford. The lecture is introduced by Prof Richard Sorabji.
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Software didattico e difficoltà in matematica
Considerazioni sull'uso di software didattico come ausilio per osservare e comprendere le difficoltà di apprendimento nell'area logico-matematica
Author(s): Dettori Giuliana,Ott Michela,Tavella Mauro

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Organisational patterns for e-learning centres
In this paper we explore the notion of using organisational patterns in educational design for the development of e-learning centres. We are using patterns to discuss some of the key aspects concerning the implementation of an e-learning centre within an institution, with an emphasis on the purposes and pedagogical principles that will help to successfully support such an initiative. The research approach which informed our pattern development work includes use of a qualitative survey of a set o
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Coordinate work teams
Coordinate work teams including leadership, work teams, staff profiles, performance appraisals, supporting staff, meetings
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A Conversation with Meg Munn
A conversation with Meg Munn MP, former Minister in the Blair and Brown governments. Hear an 'insider's' take on the UK political scene - a crucial general election due within six months, the 'expenses scandal' entangling Westminster MPs, an unpopular Labour leader, and the UK’s relationship with Europe being questioned again. Held 7 December, 2009.
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Legg Mason's Inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Lecture on September 29th
Dean Yash Gupta of The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School speaks at the Legg Mason's Inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Lecture on September 29th
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Manage remuneration and employee benefits
This Unit focuses upon developing the skills required to make strategic decisions and recommendations that may affect an organisation's entire remuneration and benefits. It is assumed that you will already possess skills in the HR functions of recruitment and selection, performance management and industrial relations, and have knowledge of labour economics. It is not recommended that you undertake this Unit as a first Unit in the Diploma.
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