Conglomerate

The Vietnam War: One Soldier’s Perspective Like many others who were serving, my grandfather, Ronald Gene Huffman, was young. Huffman served in the United States Army from 1968 to 1989. He served in Cantho, Vietnam in the 1960s. He was a member of the Military Police. He retired as a 1st Sergeant E-8. He claims he joined the military because then you either joined or you got drafted, simple as that. You joined so you could pick the branch of service you wanted to be a part of and the job you…

Houchin Community Blood Bank Organization Analysis Houchin Community Blood Bank (HCBB) is a non-profit that was founded in April 1951 to provide a safe and adequate blood supply of the patients in Kern County. The purpose of this organization is to save lives by providing blood products. The vision of HCBB is to continue being an independent blood bank providing safe and usable products to the residents of the county. My job at HCBB has taught me the important strategies and programs used to…

Corporate convergence is a product of three elements, digitization, corporate concertation (fewer large companies own more media properties), and government deregulation (increasingly allowed media conglomerates to own different kinds of media, such as television, radio stations newspaper), in the same markets and which has permitted content carriage companies to own content producers. The benefits of corporate convergence is that it can reduce labor,…

Three confirmations that would support the claim of how the delayed progress of women holding office is due to the media’s representation of women is the gendered socialization created, the miniscule amount of female protagonists, and the idea of taking the boss down a peg. Caroline Heldman states that “there is a gendered socialization where politics is for men, leadership is considered masculine, and women are discouraged from pursuing ambitious positions.” I think this is the biggest reason…

William Gibson is an American-Canadian writer who has had a very successful career. Gibson has built an impressive list of accolades including creating a science-fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk, creating the term cyberspace, and being the first author to win the science fiction “triple crown”--the Nebula Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the Hugo Award. What’s even more impressive is the fact that Gibson was able to accomplish all of this with one novel, Neuromancer. Published in 1984,…

1). He goes on to talk about Roman “Tax farming”, a model where private interests, known as publicani, purchased the rights to collect taxes, by paying Rome the estimated tax due in advance. Alden equates Rome’s publicani to modern day banking conglomerates such as JPMorgan Chase who have moved into the property tax collection game. He compares the publicani’s unchecked authority to extract tax revenue form provincial citizens, to that of today’s tax farms, who “Intentionally hide information”…

Serve Gratifications The tendency to exploit those that are vulnerable is highly practiced by corporations in the United States to gain success. In Michael Moss’s The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food, it is delineated how the food conglomerate, Oscar Meyer, led by executive Bob Drane, manufactured and marketed the famous product that is known as “Lunchables.” In interviews with Drane and his daughter, Monica, Moss uncovered that Monica had three children of her own, however, she…

Gender Roles Throughout the Meiji Era, gender roles were redefined following the Western standards, many roles were outlined in the Imperial Constitution and other legal documents. Women faced harder segregation compared to the Tokugawa Era. In the Imperial Constitution it defined the definition of a “family”. It segregated women, men, and children into roles in the traditional family, with the father as the head of the household. The Imperial Constitution allowed polygamy, which is where a…

By this time, in 1882, Rockefeller established what was known as the Standard Oil Trust which established itself to coordinate all oil exploration, production, and distribution activities throughout the nation. In reality the trust was a giant conglomerate of many small corporations. Having Standard Oil well established, by the 1890s, Rockefeller’s empire controlled almost 90% of all oil that was produced in America. His ventures also grew to encompass iron ore minding, shipping and various…

This essay focuses on the growth of a company. It will examine the case study of “Davis Service Group” a once conglomerate which decided to focus on the textile maintenance services group of companies in the UK and Europe market to grow its business (Davis Case Study, n.d.). For any level of growth to occur businesses and their staff must be willing to embrace change. In the case of international expansion, the market must first ensure that its home base operations are strong enough and that…