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- 421: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... there is nothing illiberal about me when I am out on a diplomatic debauch. Now, in return for these concessions, I am willing to take anything in reason, and I think we may consider the business settled and the ausgleich ausgegloschen at last for ten solid years, and we will sign the papers in blank, and do it here and now. Well, I am unspeakably glad to have that ausgleich off ... if they don't get it. There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration- and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on the people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season. In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four-and-twenty hours. It was I that made the ...
- 422: The Color Purple: Real Outcome of Economic Achievement and Alternative Economic View
- ... novel, it is evident we are examining an external world based in a society where the white oppressor governs the oppressed black populace. The economic realities of white land ownership, near-monopoly of technical and business skills and control of financial institutions was in fact the accepted norm (Sowell 48). When presenting the term fact - we must account for the introduction of a second model, "historical and empirical data" in representing ... Well, his store did so well that he talked his two brothers into helping him run it. . . . Then the white merchants began to get together and complain that his store was taking all the black business away from them. . . . This would not do"(Walker 180). The store the black men owned took the business away from the white men, who then interfered with the free market (really the white market) by lynching their black competitors. Class relations, in this instance, are shown to motivate lynching. Lynching was the ...
- 423: Causes of The Great Depression
- ... profits rose 62% and dividends rose 65%(end note 10). The federal government also contributed to the growing gap between the rich and middle-class. Calvin Coolidge's administration (and the conservative-controlled government) favored business, and as a result the wealthy who invested in these businesses. An example of legislation to this purpose is the Revenue Act of 1926, signed by President Coolidge on February 26, 1926, which reduced federal ... buildings, factories, offices, and stores. From 1919 to 1928 the construction industry grew by around $5 billion dollars, nearly 50%(end note 27). Also prospering during the 1920's were businesses dependent upon the radio business. Radio stations, electronic stores, and electricity companies all needed the radio to survive, and relied upon the constant growth of the radio market to expand and grow themselves. By 1930, 40% of American families had ... existed for the automotive and radio industries to take off. Second, due to federal government's easing of credit, money was available to invest in these industries. Thanks to pressure from President Coolidge and the business world, the Federal Reserve Board kept the rediscount rate low. The federal government favored the new industries as opposed to agriculture. During World War I the federal government had subsidized farms, and payed absurdly ...
- 424: In Search of Excellence: Review
- In Search of Excellence: Review In Search of Excellence is a book dealing with many different principles of economics and what makes big business' excellent. The first idea that Peters discusses is his chart of the McKinsey 7-S Framework. The graph is very simple but the ideas are fairly complex. In their research, they found that their philosophies ... anyone assuming that a new manager of a Taco Bell will perform exactly as the old manager did is ridiculous. The organization of workers must adjust and adapt to the new manager's way of business. Another more main topic of the novel is the Eight Basic Principles. Their research had shown that the excellent companies had been based on the basics. The companies had to try to keep things simple. Sometimes, to a big business, it might seem logical that business should be run more complex the larger it is. From their research, this is usually not true. The first pricnciple is a bias for action. This is basically ...
- 425: Pfizer In The Animal Health In
- ... Pfizer s Animal Health markets several feed supplements for large animals. Feed supplement product sales slowed in 1998, due in part to regulatory issues, market conditions, and competitive pressures. Pfizer s goal for both its business units is to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of all their customers. They achieve this with ongoing innovation through state-of-the-art research and development, an extensive line of high quality products ... with the customer. All of Pfizer s representatives are trained in immunology, pharmacology, microbiology, and the science behind each product. They are also trained and equipped to understand and add value to each customers individual business. This personalized and dependable service sets Pfizer apart from the competition. Pfizer technical service veterinarians and nutritionists are committed to help provide solutions to animal health problems and assure effective use of Pfizer products. Each ... beef and dairy industries. Throughout the year, Pfizer sales representatives work in cooperation with veterinarians, animal health product suppliers and producer organizations to present educational programs for beef and dairy producers. Pfizer s Animal Health business has a new world headquarters in leased offices located one block away from the Company s corporate headquarters in New York City. Animal Health owns its North American headquarters in Exton, Pennsylvania and leases ...
- 426: Media Effect 2
- ... one of the magazine's regularly covered businesses. A Jan. 4, 1930, headline tells the story of the potential for the still-fledgling industry: "Radio Seen As One Of The Biggest Branches Of The Show Business." That article reported on radio's growing influence as an entertainment medium. "Against its wishes, in some respects, the amusement industry is being forced, more and more, to recognize the radio field as one of its most important and powerful branches," Billboard reported. "Five years ago a hybrid form of entertainment and frowned on by show business in general, the radio infant has grown within record time to the point where today it is second only to motion pictures as a gigantic industry in the entertainment business. And it is growing bigger all the time." Not only was radio initially disapproved of, the vaudeville community actually ordered its acts to stay off the air under penalty of contract cancellation. Musical, concert, ...
- 427: 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 ...
- 428: Corporate Control
- ... that CBS was using as justification for not airing the story, was nothing more than trumped up charges. CBS was left looking quite nasty, and decided to show the interview. The whole point is that business has no right to decide what is news. They have no right to come and stop a story from airing because it might hurt their profit margin. Obviously large news organizations need to have a corporate division to handle business affairs, but business should not be allowed to effect good journalism. At one point in the film, Bergman makes a comment about the press only being free to someone who can afford it. That is a powerful ...
- 429: Development of Computers and Technology
- ... for sales. In 1896, he started the Tabulating Machine Company, which was very successful in selling machines to railroads and other clients. In 124, this company merged with two other companies to form the International Business Machines Corporation, still well known today as IBM. IBM, Aiken & Watson For over 30 years, from 1924 to 1956, Thomas Watson, Sr., ruled IBM with an iron grip. Before becoming the head of IBM, Watson had worked for the Tabulating Machine Company. While there, he had a running battle with Hollerith, whose business talent did not match his technical abilities. Under the lead of Watson, IBM became a force to be reckoned with in the business machine market, first as a purveyor of calculators, then as a developer of computers. IBM's entry into computers was started by a young person named Howard Aiken. In 1936, after reading Babbage's ...
- 430: Great Gatsby
- ... life was to be an extremely successful, just like his model Dan Cody, but that plan ends up failing as well. As a part of what Dan Cody taught him, Gatsby attempted to go into business with a man named Meyer Wolfsheim, but failed at that also. For such a long time Gatsby has had his eye on Daisy and has been in love with her, but this does not. Gatsby ... From the day that he met Dan Cody he decided to dedicate his life to the development of the idea of himself that existed in his head. Although he was successful at making money in business, Jay Gatsby was never able to become a man as successful as Dan Cody who had everything he wanted in life. The experiences with Cody however, helped Gatsby to later pursue a job in business. We are introduced to the business side of Gatsby in the person of Meyer Wolfsheim. Wolfsheim is modeled on the real-life figure of Arnold Rothstein, the man who helped fix the 1919 World ...
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