I was a buff of old west shows that were very common when I first got to US in 1967. One thing I remember is cowboys triying to…
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View AllThis presentation was done in 2008 for a conference at Kellogg and I later updated it in 2012 for a prsentation somewhere. Since then,…
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I was a buff of old west shows that were very common when I first got to US in 1967. One thing I remember…
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