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Effective Strategic Decision-Making Strategies For Plant Managers In Pharmaceutical And Medical Device Manufacturing In Modern Day Puerto Rico: A Qualitative Case Study, Cherisa Irene Jerez
Effective Strategic Decision-Making Strategies For Plant Managers In Pharmaceutical And Medical Device Manufacturing In Modern Day Puerto Rico: A Qualitative Case Study, Cherisa Irene Jerez
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
This qualitative, collective case study covers the experience of strategic decision making in a pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturing environment in Puerto Rico during the current economic crisis. The medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in Puerto Rico was selected because of the tax expirations targeting this specific industry and the predominance on the island this industry represents in the manufacturing environment. Despite Puerto Rico’s dominance in medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturing over the past 60 years, the current financial and government crisis poses a significant threat to executive level commitment toward maintaining operations on the island. Research questions focused …
The Power Of Investing To Alleviate Poverty, Zachary Sicher
The Power Of Investing To Alleviate Poverty, Zachary Sicher
Senior Honors Theses
Hundreds of millions of people across the world are affected by extreme poverty each day. At the same time, investing has generated more wealth than anything in the history of the world. Because of the great success of investing in generating wealth, there must be a way for investing to be used to assist in the alleviation of poverty. To examine this possibility, one must consider the root causes of poverty, the reasons for the success of investing, and how poverty is currently being alleviated, to effectively develop a way for investing to be used to help alleviate poverty.