Silicon Valley

This essay aims to critical analyse the concept of Creating Shared Value written by Porter and Kramer (2011), discussing the Author background and language used, as well as the strengths of CSV that takes social responsibility to the centre of the business, meanwhile pointing some weaknesses and comparing with another concept called Corporate Social Responsibility. Is CSV the answer for all businesses problems? Michael E. Porter can be consider one of the most respected gurus on management and…

Human Resources Management, we can use this strategy in improving productivity in any company by not merely increasing the external rewards, but also the internal satisfaction. For example, making the workplace a fun place. Facebook and some other Silicon Valley companies make a full use of this. They turn their office into playground for adults. From what I know, Human Resources managers are aware of this and they do consider this in their Human Resource planning. Another way we can apply this…

Uber Plays Dirty A new type of business has entered the transportation industry in America. Uber is a company that operates much like a taxi service, but uses a smart phone and individual contractors to perform transportation services. A new company called Lyft has entered the market place, and Uber has responded by using unethical business tactics in an attempt to keep Uber out of the industry. History of Uber and Lyft Uber was a start-up company that started over five years ago (Lashinsky…

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” This, a quote by Winston Churchill, could easily be used as a motto for most every successful global company. Google, founded September 4th, 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The two men met at Stanford University, and together formed a search engine on Stanford’s servers called, BackRub. This being such a success was later launched into a full internet domain named Google.com on September 15th, 1997. Google’s name…

where information and knowledge are within our reach through various mobile devices and technologies, there exists a peculiar (but clear) kind of oppression regarding the digital frontier: women. The countless tech start-up companies located in Silicon Valley consist of primarily men. People on the Internet joke about the lack of women in the science- technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career fields. Why is this a thing? Why is it that men dominate the technological workforce? When it…

Robots are learning, and soon, they will take over the job market in rapid succession. As seen in Charles Gillis’ “The Robot Invasion,” the author explores the possibilities of how robots could become a part of our everyday lives. Gillis first compares experimental robotics to have the same behavior of ants. Gillis then explores the possibilities of robots in daily human lives, saying that some would be built to handle dangerous labor, while others would be suited towards medical care.…

The gig economy can be defined as temporary jobs where the employees are hired as independent contractors instead of full-time employees, however it doesn’t really have a true definition. Everyone’s view toward the gig economy is different, there are several reasons why people think it’s a bad idea as well as many reason why people think it’s a wonderful way to live life. Both the good and bad are shown in the articles by Jia Tolentino, Rebecca Burns, Noam Schieber, and Elka Topey and Andrew…

Stingrays because Los Angeles is one of the only biggest cities in the country that doesn 't have a football team there, but also Los Angeles is one of the wealthiest cities in America, and it 's also surrounded by wealthy cities such as, San Jose and Silicon Valley. The average age in Los Angeles is about 34 which means most of the people in the Los Angeles region are employed. The average household income is about $55,000 which shows that families can afford to go to many football outings at…

Stop reading if this doesn’t fit. Have you ever felt like you wake up, get ready, maybe get the kids ready, head off to work or school, take the old same route to work every day, get off work, go to the gym, go cook dinner, watch some TV, get ready for bed, then go to bed and do that same day all over again. If this sounds pretty familiar to you; then it might be wise to go back and reread the mindless autopilot rerun of a life that you may be living. We usually don’t open our eyes to see what…

Google Case Study Google was started in 1996 by two young men by the name of Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They met at Stanford University in California, where they were studying. While they were researching for their thesis, they found that looking for information was like a needle in a haystack and there were no credible sites. They decided to put together a website for the other college students to help them with their research projects. Not knowing that it would lead to a lucrative and…