Gratitude in Graduate MBA Attitudes: Re-Examining the Business Week Poll

Journal of Education for Business

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 25-28

  Holbrook, Morris B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 34250828903     PISSN: 08832323     EISSN: 19403356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JOEB.80.1.25-28     Document Type: Article

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