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- 561: George Bush
- George W. Bush Politics have been the family business for more than one family in the United States. The familiar family of several generations is the Kennedy family who remains in the political spotlight for fifty-three years and running. As Elizabeth Dole attempts ... then worked for a group that mentored young minority athletes but also left that job not being fulfilled. After applying for University of Texas Law School and being denied he applied to Harvard School of Business. George W. Bush graduated from Harvard with his Masters in Business in 1975. After Harvard George returned to Midland, Texas where he grew up. There he thought that he would try his hand at the oil business. He had no experience in this field yet ...
- 562: Healthcare And Coranare Heart Disease
- ... group (DRG) was established for inpatient services. Essentially, a hospital was paid a pre-established price for a patient's hospitalization based on that patient's diagnosis (Heater). DRG s have changed how hospitals do business. These DRG s have forced hospitals to determine how much it will cost for them to perform the procedures. The hospitals that do not cost out procedures have no information on which to base pricing ... care, hospitalization and other health related services (www.baptisthealthsystem.org). This type of mission is the typical type of mission provided by most hospitals. They don t seem to mention that they are in the business of making money. And they don t mention that we are becoming numbers to them not patients. They are concerned with our satisfaction and with their mortality rates, but overall hospitals are in business to make money. Baptist hospital in Nashville still primarily operates under fee for service. Very few of the physicians in the hospital are associated with HMO s. The hospitals see that as being something ...
- 563: Taxes and Its Objectives
- ... personal exemptions. What is left after these deductions is taxed at 17 percent, after a two-year phase-in period. For businesses, taxes are paid on income from the sale of goods or services. The business first adds up all of its income and then subtracts what it paid out in wages and salaries, what it purchased in order to make its products or provide its services, and the cost of ... swelled to 3,458 pages. Moreover, the IRS receives more than 1 billion form 1099s every year as part of the government's cumbersome efforts to track income from interest, dividends, and other forms of business income. With a flat tax, this burden disappears. The effect would restore the simplicity of the original income tax. A flat tax will encourage more jobs and higher wages by boosting incentives to work, save ... productivity, increased wages, and more jobs. A flat tax also will have a more immediate impact on job creation by making work more attractive. High tax rates drive a wedge between what it costs a business to employ a worker and how much the worker receives in take-home pay. By increasing the cost of labor, taxes lower the number of workers a company is willing to hire. Businesses do ...
- 564: Andrew Carnegie The Rise Of Bi
- By: Mike Placet Andrew Carnegie Andrew Carnegie The Rise of Big Business Andrew Carnegie was born in Dumferline, Scotland, in November of 1935. His parents were Will and Margaret Carnegie. He also had a brother, Tom. The main income for the geographic location where he grew up ... the transactions as long as the return exceeded the cost. It was this type of mentality that led him into investing in sleeping cars, oil companies, and bridge companies at that time. All of these business adventures were not all successes, though. The bottom line for him at this time was to invest no matter what. Carnegie also learned that he could make money off of selling bonds and shares of stock. He had an amazing ability to understand the working structures of the business world. Nothing could escape him. All of this knowledge seemed to be building up in to something immense; "Big Business". Even though Carnegie was destined for greatness, he lied at times, concealed information, and ...
- 565: Thomas Edison
- ... the Edison Universal Stock Printer. Edison sold the rights for the stock ticker. He thought he might get paid around $4,000 for it. He got $40,000! With all this money, Edison started a business in Newark, New Jersey. He built stock tickers and high-speed printing telegraphs. At this shop he improved on the typewriter. Until Edison improved it, you could write faster than you could type. Edison was ... his workshop in Newark, New Jersey, Edison asked his father to help build a new "invention factory". Edison built his new science laboratory at the village of Menlo Park, NJ. Now he and his two business partners could devote their full attention to inventing. Edison promised that he would build a small invention every ten days and a big invention every six months! He also said he would "take orders" for ... applied for as many as 400 patents a year.” (Denmark pg. 54) His ideas and inventions ranged from the practical to the crazy. Edison worked at Menlo Park for over 10 years. Edison became a business partner with some of New York's richest people, J.P. Morgan and the Vanderbilt’s. Together they formed the Edison Electric Light Company. They made this company before electric light bulbs had been ...
- 566: The Internet And Its Effects And Its Future
- ... as TCP/IP was developed to allow separate computers to work together. Millions of people worldwide are using the Internet to share information and communicate. Individuals and businesses, from students and the media, to small business owners, programmers and corporate giants are all harnessing the power of the Internet. For many businesses the Internet is becoming integral to their operations. All users of the Internet have the ability to send and ... messages, notes, letters, documents, pictures, video, sound- almost any form of communication, as effortlessly as making a phone call. It is easy to understand why the Internet is rapidly becoming the medium of choice for business. Using the mouse on your computer, the easy point-and-click interface gives you access to electronic mail for sending and receiving data, and file transfer for copying files from one computer to another. Telnet ... to anyone who is willing to listen. In addition, the Internet is a resource for you to search, gathering data on whatever one pleases. Probably most importantly, the Internet houses a new forum for doing business. A virtual marketplace where customers can, at the push of a button, have access to, investigate, and buy products and services. Businesses are discovering the Internet as the most powerful and cost effective tool ...
- 567: Implementing Employee Assistance Programs
- ... party, he has to have a drink the next morning. But it may not stop there. He needs a sip around 10am to take the edge off. Whatever he does on his lunch is his business so he may go home and have a couple of beers before returning to his job - at the factory. Gus probably has a problem with alcohol, as do 6 to 10 percent of the employee ... actual employees of the company where external programs are staffed by companies that sell EAP services. Examples of internal programs are employer-sponsored and union only. Because EAP models vary from industry to industry and business to business, only the basics of each model and its general characteristics will be discussed. Internal Programs Employer At best, these can be described as programs created, housed and manned by the employer. Union-Only These ...
- 568: People or Profits?
- ... feared they wouldn't be paid for treating the patient. What's right? People or profit? Should there be death or tragedy at the result of poverty and high health care costs, or should a business such as a hospital lose millions everyday to give health care to those who can't afford it? An average person like me would feel for the person who could not afford sufficient health insurance ... That baby didn't ask to be born, and it wasn't given a chance to live. It wasn't necessarily the doctors fault, and it wasn't even his or her decision, because of business. Business has moved to the heart of health care, a place once relatively cushioned from the pursuit of profit that drives the rest of the U.S. economy. Throughout the history of the United States, ...
- 569: Ben and Jerry's
- ... Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. The first scoop shop was opened in May 1978 in a renovated gas station in downtown Burlington. Financed by a $12,000 investment loan from Ben’s father. The cofounder‘s business concept was to make the best ice cream available and to sell it at an affordable price. In 1979 Ben & Jerry’s began wholesaling ice cream in 2 ˝ gallon tubs to restaurants in the area. After transforming the business by packaging pint cartons and wholesaling them to area groceries and mom-pop stores along truck routes the business took off. In 1981 sales had grown enough to require expanding production to a second building just as Time magazine ran an August 1981 cover story on infatuation with super-premium ice cream; the ...
- 570: Bill Gates
- ... the head of the pack in the Aindustry that pushed hefty boxes of metal and plastic and silicon at thousands ob bucks a pop.@(Manes, 4) No one had yet attempted to tap the software business, a market that was inevitably going to grow as fast of faster than its complimentary hardware market. Bill gates saw this opportunity and took advantage of it. When William Henry Gates came into the world ... value amounted to less then $200 million, and the term Asoftware@ had not yet been coined.@(Manes, 2) Bill first laid a hand on a computer in 1968 while in junior high school. The computer business was rapidly transforming at this time, and so was Bill Gates. He saw the real profitable side of computers was not their hardware. Rather it was the software end of the business. Good software is what makes a computer exciting and easy to use. Bill Gates grabbed this concept and ran with it. The result: As of 1993 AGates was personally worth more than $2 billion@, ...
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