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- 391: Make-Up Art Cosmetics
- Make-Up Art Cosmetics Make-up Art Cosmetics, also known as M.A.C. cosmetics is a highly unique corporation. Its founders and business strategies are rather simple yet extremely effective in contributing to the companies success. The company does not use any fancy business schemes and it is truly concerned with its consumers. In the beginning, the company struggled to get started, but now a multimillion dollar (and still growing) enterprise, M.A.C. probably has some of the ... pressure, the laid-back management resulted in a retail staff turnover of less than 7% last year. M.A.C. Cosmetics has a great position on corporate and social responsibility. The public image of this business is supported, due to many different surroundings. M.A.C. is "cruelty-free" and does not test its products on animals. They use simple black and white (recyclable) packaging and they encourage Recycling with ...
- 392: The Godfather: Did The
- The Godfather: Did The Throughout history Writers have been writing fictional novels based on real historical events. The Godfather by Mario Puzo is such a book in which Puzo portrays Mafia life and business starting at the late 40’s. The Corleone crime Family in this novel is shown having troubles with the other organized crime syndicates concerning drugs. Many of the other families are pushing the idea of joining the narcotics market, however the Corleones do not want to intervene in such a disagreeable business. Much tension forms as mobster wars starts within the syndicates and most favor drugs. My purpose of this paper will be to analyze whether Mario Puzo the author of The Godfather , represents an accurate portrayal of narcotics as a major part of Mafia business. As the demand for illegal narcotics rose in the United States, it was the Mafia who would jump on it as they did all other illegal activities, such as gambling operations, prostitution, extortion, and ...
- 393: The History of General Motors
- ... entrepreneurial spirit planted the seeds of the world's largest industrial corporation. 1899 - 1907: LITTLE BUICK BECOMES A BIG SUCCESS In 1899, Scottish-born David Buick turned from plumbing to making engines and went into business as an automobile manufacturer. By 1903, though, his Buick Motor Company was in financial trouble. In an effort to locate new investors, he dispatched Buick engineer Walter Marr to the little town of Flint, Michigan ... go for a ride. Only then did Durant realize that Marr wasn't trying to sell him the car--he was trying to sell him the company. Durant was never one to pass up a business opportunity--he collected companies the way somebody's pack-rat uncle might collect broken lawn mowers and obscure gadgets. He borrowed a Buick for three months, tested it exhaustively, and then took over the company ... parts together. After several attempts, Durant found a way to finance Cadillac's $4.5 million asking price in 1909. As car sales fell off in 1910 and 18 established auto makers went out of business, GM had to sell off some of its companies at a loss, and Durant was forced out. He promptly founded another company, with backing from business people anxious to leave the expiring wagon and ...
- 394: A Financial Evaluation of General Electric Corporation
- ... of $465.75 or a profit of forty-seven (47) percent in six months time. General Information General Electric Company is considered a conglomerate. This means that it is engaged in many different types of business under the general name of General Electric Company. There are numerous holdings which the company has. There are currently fourteen (140) divisions within the corporation. Several of these include: Aircraft Engines - General Electric currently have ... the 1980’s to become a part of global competition and enter the global market. GE divested itself of $10 billion of marginal businesses and made $19 billion in acquisitions to strengthen the world class business that would lead GE into the nineties. (GE Home Page) Financial In the fiscal year 1998, General Electric Company’s revenues rose to $100.5 billion from $71.83 billion the year before. Earnings increased ... a value of $172,032.00. Also, General Electric is the only company listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Index today that was also included in the original index in 1896. (Stocksheet’s) Philosophy of Business General Electric’s philosophy of globalization has been very innovative. GE believed that Europe looked a lot like the United States did in the 1980’s and in need of dramatic remedies, including restructuring ...
- 395: The Government's Spending Plan To Reduce The Budget Deficit
- ... his article "Who Wants Taxes Cut," (October, 1945) Zeisler makes a persuasive argument against the low-tax lobby and the low-tax ethic itself. Zeisler's argument is, in effect, that in government as in business you get what you pay for--and in the case of taxes, he theorizes, the more citizens pay on a local level the more likely they will be to insist that they get their money ... producers"--who most often live on straight salaries, without capital gains and exemptions--to bear the greatest relative tax burden and ultimately draws the able and educated away from schools and civil service and into business. Without incentives to keep qualified individuals in careers like education and civil service, the tax system risks sacrificing the long-term health of the whole for the short-term gain of a limited constituency. Nearly ... his article "Who Wants Taxes Cut," (October, 1945) Zeisler makes a persuasive argument against the low-tax lobby and the low-tax ethic itself. Zeisler's argument is, in effect, that in government as in business you get what you pay for--and in the case of taxes, he theorizes, the more citizens pay on a local level the more likely they will be to insist that they get their ...
- 396: The Great Gatsby: Doubleness
- ... for doubleness. His mother's father, P. F. McQuillan, went to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1857, at the age of twenty-three. In twenty years he built up--literally from nothing--an enormously successful wholesale business. He was a totally self-made man, and from him Scott inherited a sense of self-reliance and a belief in hard work. The Fitzgeralds, on the other hand, were an old Maryland family. Scott ... by the private cocktail party, and men and women began drinking together. Parties like the ones given by Gatsby began to thrive, and hoodlums became millionaires in a few months by controlling the bootleg liquor business. Scott and Zelda not only chronicled the age, they lived it. They rode down Fifth Avenue on the tops of taxis; they dove into the fountain in front of New York's famous Plaza Hotel ... in World War I ("The Great War"), has returned home to begin a career. Like others in his generation, he is restless and has decided to move East to New York and learn the bond business. The novel opens early in the summer of 1922 in West Egg, Long Island, where Nick has rented a house. Next to his place is a huge mansion complete with Gothic tower and marble ...
- 397: Theory on Market Research
- Theory on Market Research Many businesses are Product Orientated. This means that they design and make a product, and then try and convince consumers to buy it. Business can also be “Market Orientated”. This is where they try to find out what consumers want before making the final product. Finding out about what consumers want and need, and what makes them buy, is ... products which have a chance of success in the market place. When the product is launched, a carefully researched product stands less chance of failing. Market research attempts to find the answers to questions a business might have about its market. A market researcher must then decide what information might help answer the question brought forward. The market researcher then decider how best to collect this information. There are two ways of doing this, desk research and field research. The information is then collected and analysed. Finally, the business has to make a decision about what to do in the light of the information formed. Desk research involves the use of secondary Data. This is information which is already available, both within and ...
- 398: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been ... of the U.S. was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool in tabulating the totals. These advantages were noted by commercial industries and soon led to the development of improved punch-card business-machine systems by International Business Machines (IBM), Remington-Rand, Burroughs, and other corporations. By modern standards the punched-card machines were slow, typically processing from 50 to 250 cards per minute, with each card holding up to 80 digits. ...
- 399: DuPont: An Investment Analysis
- ... first product. This represents a good, strong start for a company. DuPont, which is moving through the last decade of the twentieth century and toward its third century, emphasizes several things; competing globally; sharpening its business focus; increasing productivity; committing to safety, health, and environmental excellence; and continuing to extend its significant science and technological achievement. One of DuPont's major strategies is to focus on businesses in which DuPont has core competencies, where DuPont can build competitive advantage. The most notable example of this focus was the 1993 transaction in which DuPont acquired ICI's nylon business and ICI acquired DuPont's acrylics business. This strengthened the company's position in the global nylon business while divesting a business that no longer fit its portfolio. Another major factor in the transformation of the company in the1990s was the ...
- 400: History of the Computer Industry in America
- ... aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one out of every two households (Hall, 156). This incredible invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been ... of the U.S. was increasing so fast, the computer was an essential tool in tabulating the totals. These advantages were noted by commercial industries and soon led to the development of improved punch-card business-machine systems by International Business Machines (IBM), Remington-Rand, Burroughs, and other corporations. By modern standards the punched-card machines were slow, typically processing from 50 to 250 cards per minute, with each card holding up to 80 digits. ...
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