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If MC pricing were used, at what point would total costs be fully recovered?

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What do you think is meant by informal controls (as opposed to formal controls), and are they a better type of management control?

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Name something the Pietsches could have done better to make their business start-up go more smoothly.

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we spoke about many of the whites who participated in Blacks struggle for civil rights were Jewish. How were the organizational experiences of Jews and Blacks in the United States similar?

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