Still, an investigation found that the factory violated Nike's code of conduct, prompting the company to work with factory management on a "remediation plan to help avoid these issues from occurring again in the future, " she says.

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Reputation rehab starts by asking upper management for the opportunity to work with the employee on an improvement plan.

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Gorman has laid out his plan to get wealth management and sales and trading to work together.

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Indeed, PublishOne's business plan is a good example of how digital-rights-management systems may work in practice.

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Because some of the work we do with clients is around transition management, this got me started thinking about how easy it is to plan to merge with or acquire another company and how difficult it is to actually do it well.

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