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- 651: Nigeria and Ogoni's Campaign
- ... almost 14% of the company's production which equates to the greatest production outside of the USA. Therefore, both Shell and the Nigerian government have an interest in maintaining the status quo and continuing with business as usual. Since the beginning of Shell's operations in the Niger Delta, the company has wreaked havoc on the neighboring communities and their environment. Many of its operations and materials are outdated, in poor ... communities where oil is produced. However little, if any, of that money has reached those in need of it. Even Shell has admitted as much but maintains that it is beyond the scope of its business activities to influence the government. The Ogoni see it differently. They see Shell as a multinational company, supported by the federal government, which was influential enough to persuade the government to increase the oil revenue ... about the rights of communities to control their local environment and the rights of multinational companies. So with brute force and systematic violence, the Ogoni are being silenced. The way in which Shell conducts its business in Ogoni is an indication of the way in which big oil operates abroad without proper policing. Furthermore, the brutality waged upon the Ogoni, as a result of their campaign to protect the environment, ...
- 652: Dynamic Change In The U.S.
- ... industrial revolution during this time and continually grew into the world’s preeminent economic power. Huge corporations were formed, which began a domination over the economy during the late 19th century. This new way of business brought about many changes with it. Entrepreneurs who had worked on simple things for small businesses in the past began devoting their work to the inventions of mass production and distribution. As the larger companies ... process of making steel in the U.S. Carnegie was extremely successful, acquiring a controlling interest in other large steel plants. Though he was never a technical expert on steel, his natural talent as a business salesman reaped him many rewards. He was a promoter, salesman, and organizer with a gift for finding and using men of expert ability. Carnegie kept his factories up to date by always keeping the most ... Great Britain, and donated funds for the construction of the Peace Palace at The Hague, Netherlands, for what is now the international court of Justice of the United Nations. Carnegie was not only a devout business man, but he was a stunning philosopher as well. He was a good man with strong morals and wasn’t afraid to share his views on morality with his employees and others who would ...
- 653: Bill Gates
- ... His mother, Mary, is the director of First Interstate Bank. Early on in life, Gates' parents placed him into Lakeside, an academically challenging private school. While at Lakeside, Gates met his close friend and future business partner Paul Allen. Together they entered the world of programming at Lakeside. It all started on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, where one of the brains behind Microsoft Corporation was born, William Henry Gates ... started going to Lakeside School. A year later, the Mothers' Club invested in a computer terminal for the students. Gates teamed up with three other students to form The Lakeside Programmers Group. Their first real business deal was a payroll program they wrote for Information Sciences Inc., in 1971. At the young age of 15, Gates was able to crash the DEC operating system and the CDC, which were two of the most advanced computer systems at that time. Although his ability to crash these two systems brought him some major trouble, it also led him to his first business adventure. Gates and Allen started the company Traf-O-Data, which earned them $20,000. Gates and Allen developed a machine was able to generate summary statistics on traffic flow from a rubber tube ...
- 654: Theory Of The Firm-are Firms J
- Firms are in business for a simple reason: To make money. Traditional economic theory suggests that firms make their decisions on supply and output on the basis of profit maximisation. However many Economists and managerial Scientists in our days ... companies are not run by the their owners is often brought forward to support this claim. A large corporation typically is owned by thousands of shareholders, most of whom have nothing to do with the business decisions. Those decisions are made by a professional management team, appointed by a salaried board of directors. In most cases these managers will not own stock in the company which may lead to strongly differing ... their actions in the interest of the owners, by maximising profits. First of all, the owners will not have the same access to information as the managers do. Where Information relates to professional skills of Business administration as well as those of the firms inner structure and its market enviroment. Furthermore, when confronted with the owners demands for profit maximising policies, a clever manager can always argue that her engagement ...
- 655: The War On Tobacco
- ... is harmful in the short and long runs to one¹s health. There was a memo written in 1963 marked ³strictly private and confidential² which stated,² moreover, nicotine is addictive... We are then in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug effective in the release of stress mechanisms.²(Hwang). If the tobacco companies were in fact ³ignorant² on the correlation between their product and lung cancer along with other diseases ... in bold letters on the packs of cigarettes, televised, and in every magazine ad for cigarettes. Continuing the way they are, it seems the tobacco companies are more of a culprit rather than a normal business. The tobacco industry is a monster that is one of the leading money making industries ever. Throughout all of their lies and hidden secrets, people are still puffing away at their fatal product. It is ... is harmful in the short and long runs to one¹s health. There was a memo written in 1963 marked ³strictly private and confidential² which stated,² moreover, nicotine is addictive... We are then in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug effective in the release of stress mechanisms.²(Hwang). If the tobacco companies were in fact ³ignorant² on the correlation between their product and lung cancer along with other ...
- 656: Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
- ... Melvill's clothes after the Tea Party as a momento of this occasion. Herman attended the New York Male High School from about the age of seven until 1830. By that time, Allan Melvill's business had begun to fail, due to his credit being overextended. After futile attempts to re-establish himself, he eventually found it necessary to accept the management of a New York fur company back in Albany ... moved there in the autumn of 1830, and during that time Herman attended, along with his brothers Gansevoort and Allan, the Albany Academy. Just as luck seemed to again be favoring the Melvills, Allan's business affairs again suffered a setback. Excessive worry and overwork finally took their toll upon his health. By January, 1832, he was both physically and mentally very ill. On January 28, 1832, Allan Melvill died. The ... his writing of Pierre. In order to support the family, Herman took a position as an assistant clerk at a local bank, and his brothers Gansevoort and Allan took over their late father's fur business. Possibly because of his mother's concern over his health, Herman left his position at the bank in the spring of 1834 and spent a season working for his Uncle Thomas's farm near ...
- 657: Henry Ford
- ... handling all the work in today’s factories, this assembly line was a brilliant idea for getting things done easier and quicker. Henry Ford started to age and realized that he could not run his business by himself. This is when he appointed his son, Edsel, to run the business for him. Unlike his father, Edsel went to Yale University and became very knowledgeable of machinery and the business behind it all. This, among many other things, helped Henry Ford carry on his legacy. To this very day the “Ford” is one of America’s best selling cars. Without Henry Ford’s ideas ...
- 658: The United States Postal Servi
- ... cut back on borrowing money. All of the recent financial borrowing has been through the Federal Financing Bank, but the Postal Service now is looking into outside sources, such as bonds in the public markets. Business are starting to get jealous of the Postal Service because of the great profits it is experiencing. The Postal Service is now making a major impact on the United States Economy. Business are pointing out that in 1995 the Postal Service had records of $1.8 billion in net income and a 1.7 billion dollar debt reduction. The $54 billion revenue that the Postal Service is ... cut back on borrowing money. All of the recent financial borrowing has been through the Federal Financing Bank, but the Postal Service now is looking into outside sources, such as bonds in the public markets. Business are starting to get jealous of the Postal Service because of the great profits it is experiencing. The Postal Service is now making a major impact on the United States Economy. Business are pointing ...
- 659: Culture Shock
- ... Usually after the person experiencing culture shock learns the norms, beliefs, and practices of the community, the psychological disorientation of culture shock begins to diminish. This paper will be based upon culture shock and international business. There are three areas where culture shock could affect you: 1. Emotions-you have to cope with the stress of international work and keeping an emotional balance in order to perform in a business. 2. Thinking style- you have to understand how your counterparts think and be able to develop culturally effective solutions. 3. Social skills and social identity- you need effective social skills to establish new business relationships. (Marx, 25). This differs from manager to manager, some managers seem to adapt in an almost chameleon ¡Vlike way to different countries, whereas others cling desperately to their habits and their national approaches. ...
- 660: Harry Shippe Truman
- ... on their farm so Harry had to stay home and help out. Harry did finally go to school in the fall of 1901. Harry got into the Spaulding Commercial College in Kansas City. He studied business skills. But his father's money problems got worse and Harry had to quit music lessons even though his mother and his teacher plead him to let Harry go. Harry even had to quit college ... try to run the farm by himself. He had thee debts and the prospect of his marriage to Bess made him try to find ways to make money. Harry tried a lead and zinc mining business. He and two friends formed the TCH Mining Company. None of them knew much about mining. The prices also went down, their equipment broke, and they didn't have enough funds to keep it going ... owned from 1919 to 1922. In 1922, Farm income dropped and men no longer had the money to buy the type of clothes that Harry and his partner were selling so they went out of business. When he knew the store was going to go out of business, A friend from France said that he would help Harry win the election for Judge of Jackson County. He had the help ...
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