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Porter Assignment - The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy, by Michael Porter - you need to either follow this link to sign in through MyMercer or sign in through your Blackboard account in order to download the article. If you are off campus, you will need to sign in through your MyMercer account.  Once you have signed in and are on the Harvard Business Review page, click on the volume for 2008, then click on the January issue, then go to article number 16 (this will require clicking through to the second page of articles).  Once you find the article, you may download it.

Articles and Links

   Ticket Pricing Puts "Lion King" Atop Broadway's Circle of Life - New York Times article
   Google Gets Request from Europeans to Be "Forgotten" - USA Today article
   eBay Embraces Enterprise YouTube - streamingmedia.com article
   Google In Quandary Over How to Uphold EU Privacy Ruling - Reuters article
   Tesla Motors to Open Source Its Supercharger Network - silicon beat article
   Noncompete Clauses Increasingly Pop Up in Array of Jobs - New York Times article
   Free Music, at Least While It Lasts - New York Times article
   Cyberattack Insurance a Challenge for Business - New York Times article
   CEO Elon Musk Opens Up Tesla's Patents For All - USAToday article

   John Oliver Net Neutrality video - June 1, 2014 (language warning)
   FCC's System Crashes After Net Neutrality Video Goes Viral
   John Oliver Net Neutrality update video - June 15, 2014 (language warning)

   Spurious Correlations - beware the data

   The Supreme Court's Decision on Software Patents Still Doesn't Settle the Bigger Question - Washington Post article
   Apple "Kill Switch" Appears to Reduce iPhone Robberies - Wall Street Journal article

   Why Privacy Matters - Alessandro Acquisti Ted Talk

   Jay Z

   Google Toolbar - PowerPoint slide

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