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  2. Vanderbilt University - Wikipedia

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    Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee.Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1 million endowment in the hopes that his gift and the greater work of the university would help to heal the sectional wounds inflicted by the American Civil War.

  3. Social responsibility - Wikipedia

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    Social responsibility is an individual responsibility that involves a balance between the economy and the ecosystem one lives within, [3] and possible trade-offs between economic development, and the welfare of society and the environment. [4] Social responsibility pertains not only to business organizations but also to everyone whose actions ...

  4. Shared services center - Wikipedia

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    Shared services center. A shared services center – a center for shared services in an organization – is the entity responsible for the execution and the handling of specific operational tasks, such as accounting, human resources, payroll, IT, legal, compliance, purchasing, security. The shared services center is often a spin-off of the ...

  5. E-HRM - Wikipedia

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    E-HRM is not same as HRIS (Human resource information system) which refers to ICT systems used within HR departments. Nor is it the same as V-HRM or Virtual HRM - which is defined by Lepak and Snell as "...a network-based structure built on partnerships and typically mediated by information technologies to help the organization acquire, develop ...

  6. Benefit dependency network - Wikipedia

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    Benefit dependency network. Shows a network of cause and effect; in response to drivers, to work towards desired outcomes, enablers and capabilities support various beneficial changes. A benefit dependency network (BDN) is a diagram of cause and effect relationships. It is drawn according to a specific structure that visualizes multiple cause ...

  7. Genetically modified organism - Wikipedia

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    Genetically modified crops are publicly the most controversial GMOs, in spite of having the most human health and environmental benefits. Animals are generally much harder to transform and the vast majority are still at the research stage. Mammals are the best model organisms for humans. Livestock is modified with the intention of improving ...

  8. Mercer (consulting firm) - Wikipedia

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    5,021,000,000 United States dollar (2019) Number of employees. 25,000 (2019) Parent. Marsh McLennan. Mercer is an American consulting firm founded in 1945. It is one of the four operating subsidiaries of global professional services firm Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC). Mercer is headquartered in New York City with offices in 43 countries and ...

  9. Firefox Focus - Wikipedia

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    Firefox Focus is a free and open-source privacy-focused mobile browser by Mozilla, based on Firefox. It is available for Android [4] [5] and iOS smartphones and tablets. [6] [7] Its predecessor, Focus by Firefox, was released in December 2015 as a tracker-blocking application which worked only in conjunction with the Safari mobile browser on iOS.