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  Indie Amusement Parks: Are the Gates Closing?
  Topic by Derrick Bang

  My childhood was spent within a 10-minute drive of Marineland of the Pacific, a Southern California oceanarium — at the time, the largest in the world — whose August 1954 debut preceded the far splashier arrival of Disneyland not quite a year later, on July 17, 1955. I wasn’t old enough...

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  The Global Luxury Market: Should It Be a Degree?
  Topic by Marta Segal Block

  In May, North Carolina State University's graduate school announced a unique arrangement with SKEMA, a French business school. The two institutions will be the first to offer a one-year graduate studies option in Global Luxury Management. While demand for luxury goods remains strong in the...

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  More Mergers Increasing Number of Gigantic Law Firms
  Topic by Harvey K Black

  Major law firms are merging to become ever bigger, forming international legal leviathans. One news article referred to the trend as establishing legal “behemoths.” For example, another article in the Wall Street Journal last month noted there were three recent deals that created...

• So You Want to Be a Leader?
  Article by Mark Herbert

  Leadership is one of the most broadly debated and least understood concepts we face. I believe there is an over relia...

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  Nutella, Sketchers, Rice Krispies and Advertising
  Topic by Marta Segal Block

  Chocolate spread as a breakfast food? Getting in shape by sitting on the couch in sneakers? These ideas seem ridiculous to most people but two U.S. companies recently lost big dollars when lawsuits against their false advertising claims were brought by consumers and the Federal Trade...