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- 531: The Life of Alexander Hamilton
- ... Alexander's life seemed to improve immensely. His experience as bookkeeper in his mother's store landed him a job as a clerk with the international trading firm of Nicholas Cruger, a New Yorker whose business hub was on St. Croix. The boy's exceptional skills and endless learning capacity soon saw him running the firm upon the owner's absence. As a teenager, Hamilton was inspecting cargoes, advising ships' captains ... In "Betsy" Hamilton found a loving and adoring wife, who proved a steadfast companion even in his darkest moments. When not busy with correspondence or courting his wife-to-be, Hamilton turned back to the business of building a better nation. During his tenure as aide-de-camp, Hamilton had formed important ties among New York politicians with whom he regularly corresponded. On the request of congressman James Duane, Hamilton wrote ... for the country. Had his future political rivals read this letter, none of Hamilton's fiscal policies would have taken them by surprise. He suggests revenue sources-- securing a foreign loan, a money tax on business, and a tax in kind on farmers. He expounds upon turning the public debt to the nation's advantage; creating an economy based on paper money; and dwells at length on the founding of ...
- 532: The Internet Revolution
- ... all from the convenience of the internet. People no longer have to leave their homes, work or where ever there is internet access to make important purchases. Technology has advanced so that companies are conducting business around the world with out ever meeting. No longer do consumers or businessmen have to shake to complete a deal or a sale, but merely click down on the mouse and the numbers change. Some internet companies have never seen their customers and yet some traditional retailers have not yet acknowledged the internet. However, convergence is the new religion ( The Real 53). Big companies are changing the business world as we see it through the internet. June 1, Merrill Lynch announced it was joining the internet revolution and would begin selling stocks for $29.95 a trade (Cropper 60). A division of the ... an expected revenue of nearly one billion dollars (Jones C-7). Companies are merging and joining the internet all out of the internet revolution craze. The internet is revolutionizing the way the world is doing business through faster, easier and more direct consumer access to their desired companies. Of course, such direct contact to these companies means that the middleman is often eliminated. People like accountants, travel agents and stockbrokers ...
- 533: Dutch Slave Trade
- ... through which the slave trade developed in Europe. In the Netherlands many historical events gave rise to a desire for domination of international trade. They were serious tradesman and were heavily involved in the profitable business of slavery. The Dutch, intelligent and self-ruling tradesmen took no time in displaying their dominance over rival countries, Portugal, England and Spain, in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. They established their international superiority in ... cotton in the New World increased the urgency for laborers in the new colonies, in which led to the major importation of African slaves. These plantations and farms, in the New World sparked the golden business of slave trading, a business that will guide the Dutch to economic wealth. The Dutch entered the slave trade around the 16th century and beginning of the 17th century. The people in Holland rebelled against the Spanish rule in ...
- 534: John Hancock
- ... set out with his aunt and uncle back home to Beacon Hill.After a few years of working under his uncle, John was given the chance to visit London and learn the English way of business. He had the pleasure of traveling with former governor, Thomas Pownall.John had his uncle s fortune under his wing for support. In London, John was well-liked, but was too extravagant. His uncle wrote ... and his uncle especially proud of him, for doing anexcellent job of representing the firm in London. About a year and half later, give or take, John was made partner of his uncle s successful business. Thomas( John s uncle) declared I have this day taken my nephew Mr. John Hancock into partnership with me having had long experience of his uprightness and great abilities for business. On August 1, 1764, John would have to go in life on his own. His uncle s health was getting worse and worse. One day, Thomas felt good enough to go to a meeting ...
- 535: Post World War I
- ... baseball stadiums to watch such top athletes as home run slugger Babe Ruth and boxing champion Jack Dempsey. When the Twenties rolled around, Americans found themselves engulfed in a bolstering economy. In the 1920s business was an obsession. Economic expansion created booming business profits, which in turn raised the standard of living for most Americans. Large businesses were expanding. Small business entrepreneurs took advantage of the good times as they began popping up all over the United States. Americans were moving into a period of economic prosperity. Even industrial workers, whose strikes for higher pay ...
- 536: Japanese Human Resource Manage
- ... is a vast network of banks and other companies that the Japanese firm is vigorously connected to. This is commonly known as Keiretsu or a type of inter-personal relationship amongst various levels of the business. The regular workforce is thus the main core of stakeholders, the stake being corporate survival and thus their own. Under the Japanese system which emphasizes lifetime employment as one of its unique traits, companies produce ... economy is reaching maturity. The rapid evolution of technology demands creativity and knowledge of a more professional and immediate nature. Growth in production is slowing down and the service sector is getting larger. Globalization of business and yen appreciation impose on Japanese firms new developments, such as international division of labor, shorter working hours, emergence of foreign labor and also mergers and acquisitions. Hence the lifetime employment system and the concomitant ... in reality, they try their best not to do so. Since no dismissal is a part of the precepts of regular employment, the firm has to devise employment and compensation practices flexible enough to accommodate business fluctuations and use them with varying intensity. Besides the flexibility of the salary system itself, regular employment is kept flexible through various practices, in particular concerning working hours, part time and female employment, turnover ...
- 537: The Pc Industry
- Introduction In this paper I will discuss the industry structure and the behavior of firms in the Personal Computer Industry. The personal computer industry has five leaders: Compaq Computer Corporation (CCC), Dell Computer Corporation, International Business Machines (IBM), Hewlett-Packard, and Gateway, (Industry Survey, Apr. 2000). The PC industry, as discussed in the paper, is comprised only of home/business use machines, not mainframes, databases, or any kind of servers or super-computers. The PC industry is a fast-growing, consumer-based oligopoly. I will prove the latter through the use of industry characteristics and ... good range of attributes, usually not the best that a veteran user would require. For instance CCC s newest product, the iPac, is a very simple-to-use, inexpensive machine. It is supposed to satisfy business workers needs for a useful computer at low cost,(Wildstrom 1-2). Another problem in CCC s not-to-distant future is their distribution costs. With the use of the Internet, competitors have been ...
- 538: The Failure of NAFTA
- ... known as NAFTA, was passed, an unconstituted and unprecedented experiment in social and economic policy began. For never before had three nations with such unequal economies been so forcibly put together and forced to do business. NAFTA opponents forecasted an economic disaster. The public also seemed to be on their side. Public opinion polls in both the U.S. and Mexico consistently found a majority of people opposed to NAFTA. Aligned against the people were the White House, the leaders of the Republican Party, big business, virtually all the economists, and a majority of the major media outlets. Some believe that it was the Democrats that put NAFTA over the top. Sixty percent of the Democrats in the House voted against ... For it was actually Newt Gingrichs aggressive intervention and the Republican vote that made the difference. Two years after the agreement was put into effect the results came in. The people were right. The business leaders, the economists, the White House, and Newt Gingrich were all wrong. Lets look at the facts. President Clinton promised 200,000 additional jobs because of NAFTA by 1995 alone. In fact though ...
- 539: Depreciation And Sale Of Asset
- ... The cost of the asset less the accumulated depreciation is not intended to give the current market value of the asset as the asset purchased is not intended for re-sale but use in the business. There are two methods of depreciating an asset, the straight-line method, and the reducing balance method. The straight-line method of depreciation allocates the same amount of depreciation expense being charged against revenue each ... recovered from the disposal of the asset at the end of its useful life. The useful life is the estimated period of time the asset is expected to be used to provide service to the business. The reducing balance method is another method of depreciation. It applies a fixed percent rate of depreciation to the cost of the asset less the accumulated depreciation. This method results in a larger proportion of ... against the lathes per year. In determining the cost of a non-current asset such as a lathe, expenditure that will provide future economic benefit, i.e. contribute to the revenue earning capacities of the business for more than one year, must be considered and added to the asset value. This expenditure is known as capital expenditure and is usually of a once-off nature. Examples of capital expenditure are, ...
- 540: Nikola Tesla
- ... that truly would change the lives of future generations, and a handful of these amazing contrivances would have a great impact on that which is truly important to an industrialized nation: the machinery that speeds business, business being the true backbone of a country, but to a country girl whose family depended on farming, the clothes washing machine still stands out as the one that saved her the most time. So this essay will delve into the era of the 1880's and focus on one of the most important inventors that ever lived, Nikola Tesla. Many business machines were patented before Nikola Tesla patented the alternating-current "electromagnetic motor" in 1888 (while the popular Thomas Edison was stubbornly clinging to direct-current motors), but soon more and more inventors were realizing ...
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