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As you read through the text, you may be looking for secrets of success in doing business globally. This chapter gives IBM as an example of a firm that has been very successful. What did it say about the problem of identifying the reason for IBM's success? If the reason for success cannot be determined, should we abandon any attempt to develop a rational strategy and simply depend on luck?


Definitions:

Glycerol

A simple polyol compound with three hydroxyl groups, commonly used in pharmaceutical and food industries, as well as in the manufacture of dynamite.

β-D-Ribopyranose

A sugar molecule that is a form of ribose having a six-membered oxygen-containing ring, in the β-anomeric form.

Haworth Structure

A method for depicting cyclic sugars as planar rings with hydroxyl groups and other substituents positioned above or below the plane.

α-Furanose

A form of sugar where a furan ring, a five-membered oxygen-containing ring, is present in the α-configuration, relating to the position of the substituent at the anomeric carbon.

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