As always with charitable organizations, the key efficiency issue is overhead--money spent for management and fundraising rather than for direct charitable use.

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Dukes presents a number of tricky issues but Lahav says the key issue is whether a court can decide such a large, disparate group of hourly and management employees have one legal issue in common.

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The event saw more than 200 corporate and academic supply chain management experts discuss how to bring environmental sustainability and social responsibility to the key business issue.

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