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In the Namasigue village, all of the businesses are tied together. If only a few people operate a business, then the rest of the village would be unable to purchase from them and would force business owners to sell to people from bigger cities who come to purchase products in the villages at an extremely low price. It seemed to Caleb that the people had an excellent grasp of how to operate a business in the village but desired feedback on their ideas. They taught the villagers basic accounting so that they could better run their businesses by keeping accurate records, financial statements, andbalancing the cost of the business. Both the students and the villagers were able to learn a lot from each other. For example, they met with a woman who planned canada goose uk shop to sell pigs and wanted to start off with ten. 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In her dissertation research, Dr. Easter conducted a sixteen month ethnographic study of a coalition to end homelessness in Western Canada. The coalition involved over forty different governmental, business and nonprofit players and she examined how they worked together toward common goals while considering many different perspectives. Dr. Easter presented a paper over one of the key findings of this research and uk canada goose received the Best Paper Award based on a Dissertation from the Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division of the Academy of Management.Dr. Sarah Easter was presented with the Best Paper Award for processes of negotiating identity in a cross sector partnership.Dr. Those involved in the coalition had many different viewpoints on what the central issue they were working to address entailed, which was homelessness. 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