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is to balance managerial concepts and analysis. This balance does not work out perfectly as some topics are intrinsically more “managerial” and others more “analytical”. Each chapter includes material that should work well pedagogically in a number of ways. For those who want to emphasize analysis, problems are developed in each chapter and solved problems included at the end of each chapter. The short cases at the end of each chapter all require some analysis and usually have some managerial issues

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