The United States, by contrast, has a decentralized, bottom-up entrepreneurial culture, which has historically had a strong orientation toward technological solutions.

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Indeed, during a show seminar, Robb, Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, and Container Store CEO Kip Tindell urged retailers to incorporate the tenets of conscious capitalism higher purpose, stakeholder orientation, conscious leadership and conscious culture into their business practices.

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Then came the sensitivity training programs and the tendentious, politically-skewed freshman (whoops--sexist language--I mean "first year") orientation sessions aimed at teaching students how to be acceptable (in academic culture, at least) human beings.

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