Essays Tagged: "large corporations"

"When corporations rule the world" by David Korten

David Korten describes the way things will be in the future with multi-national corporations. These large corporations are found all over the world. There are many different problems that are appearin ... owerful. 'Corporations have emerged as the dominant governance institutions on the planet, with the largest among them reaching into virtually every country of the world and exceeding most governments ...

(9 pages) 282 1 3.2 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Computer Crimes Speech

s merely the thrill of the 'hunt' at pushes them to such great lengths. Many employees that work in large corporations feel that they don't get paid as much as they should. Therefore if they have high ...

(3 pages) 111 0 3.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Analytical paper on Interactive Television

, and computer industries are merging their technologies, and the result is interactive television. Large corporations are betting that if interactive television is offered to the public at a reasonab ... over the next few years. Virtually all signals will be digital; analog will be a thing of the past. Large corporations like Microsoft and AT&T have already capitalized on multimedia and home PC's. ...

(6 pages) 112 0 3.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

The Economics of Federal Defense Policy

wages of production workers in America have declined twenty percent in the last twenty years due to large corporations shifting their operations overseas. Over thirty-seven million Americans are witho ...

(10 pages) 349 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

Annual Report of a company - Toronto Dominion Bank

decide whether or not I would arrange loans to my clients. Some of my clients range from medium to large corporations. Canadian Tire, which is one of my largest client and one of the largest corporat ...

(4 pages) 83 0 3.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Worldcom Meltdown A current event speech. Describes the history of Worldcom and the downfall

on. They caused a huge company to fall where it stood. If the woes of a bad economy weren't enough, large corporations are being cited for false and misleading accounting; the biggest and most extrava ... mmunications through more stock deals. Within the year of 1995 LDDS changes its name to WorldCom. A large merger in 1996 sent MFS Communications Company Inc. and UUNet Technologies Inc. into the World ...

(3 pages) 270 0 3.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

"Charity in the US" A paper discussing current trends of philanthropy in America and also the risks and scams involved in giving

The idea of charity first emerged at the end of the 19th century, when large corporations began helping finance voluntary agencies and religious groups. Today, the idea of ... give, how much they give, who they give to, and what they give for. The "business" of donation is a larger part of our economy than most realize and affects not only the groups on the receiving end bu ... tal care and public health, showed most growth.The foundation center publishes a yearly list of the largest private, corporate, and community foundations by total giving including grants, scholarships ...

(9 pages) 134 0 3.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

'Globalisation does more harm than good to a country's economy.'!!

n which capital movements and financial services are key determinants." (Oxelheim, 1996, p. 21) The large multi national corporations (MNC's) play a major role in this transformation process, as it is ... ess, as it is these organisations that have a very wide variety of funding options. A number of the large corporations engage in arbitrage between various international markets that are less efficient ...

(3 pages) 408 0 4.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Foreign & International Economics

Reinventing the Corporation: Companies which have lost their moral values and feel they are not responsible to the American public anymore

e no longer accountable. They believe they can do whatever they want, whatever is going to make the largest profit, regardless of the consequences to their workers or to the public. The larger compani ... hing to them.I think Rowe made some very good points in this reading. Rowe (2001) believes that our large corporations should get back to the "traditional moral values" (p. 417). I agree that we need ...

(4 pages) 87 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Ethical Dilemmas.

Ethical DilemmasEthics is a big topic is today's society. CEO's of large corporations are scamming employees out of their retirement, priests are being accused of sexu ... l some weeks. We had a job in Florida that required completion by a certain date in order to have a large sum of money collected in time to make payroll and we were having difficulty getting certain m ...

(5 pages) 849 1 3.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Hackers versus Business and Financial Institution Computers: Who will win the battle?

r she (yes, women are hackers too) is finished wreaking havoc on their prey. Software companies and large corporations spend billions of dollars defending themselves and others from the repercussions ... the hacker can get away with the theft of millions of dollars.In the movies, hackers usually attack large banks by holding them ransom. They threaten banks by demanding large ransoms in return for non ...

(10 pages) 225 2 4.5 Jul/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

This is an analytic essay abou the Human Resources Department.

declining employments due to a loss in manufacturing, a increase in welfare cost the relocation of large corporations.Of all Americans domestics policies, welfare programs are the most disputed polic ...

(8 pages) 322 0 3.6 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Apathy in the Workplace.

thy, I think, is in the workplace. This could be in many different jobs. For instance at hospitals, large corporations, restaurants, even at school.Over the years I have heard many different stories o ... less on the job. This may seem like a minor problem in the beginning but over time this has lead to larger ordeals. Apathy in the workplace can be not very sanitary but also very dangerous.For instanc ...

(2 pages) 41 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Computer Programming, why work as a computer programmer? Essay about computer programming as a career.

it enjoyable who has lots of patience and the will to do long and tedious work. Most programmers in large corporations work in teams, with each person focusing on a specific aspect of the total projec ... ogrammer carefully studies the program that best suits the employer needs. They may also work for a large computer corporation developing new software and/or improving older versions of these programs ...

(4 pages) 305 5 4.4 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

1. Are financial accounting statements useful to investors? 2. Describe and discuss the historical cost convention 3. Critically evaluate marginal and absorption costing

ce industries. Three major groups that take advantage of the usefulness of financial statements are large corporations, investors and the government. Financial statements play a decisive role in each ...

(14 pages) 891 0 3.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman - Their radical communist views and goals.

f government reform and conservation of the environment. He ordered antitrust suits against several large corporations, and, in general, championed the rights of the "little man" and fought the "malef ...

(4 pages) 36 1 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Public Schools.

Our society, as a whole, has been heading toward a decentralized system of conducting its affairs. Large corporations have been getting larger , meanwhile governments have been giving up increasing a ... with better results if privately run companies were to take over. They feel that with the existing large, encumbering bureaucracy, the government is simply unable to provide the proper base that is n ...

(3 pages) 74 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Corporate governance: Role of institutional investors

ce governance practices. Only institutional investors will have sufficient stake to be able to hold large corporations accountable. Encouraged by the institutional investors, responsible companies are ... ment Barometer quarterly survey institutional investors hold more than 60 percent of shares in most large, multinational companies. Institutions that are value and growth investors own a total of 48.5 ...

(12 pages) 564 1 3.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

THE COMPUTER CRIMINAL - Computer crimes and a brief story of Kevin David Mitnick. Include details of his parole and intermediate punishment sentence. Fully cited. Includes references.

le for numerous illegal computer break-ins to many information databases including phone companies, large corporations, and even the United States government. Throughout his career he was a dangerous ... BOL was at the time a very popular computer programming language that was and still is used by many larger businesses. Gehr was fully aware of the happenings in Kevin's past, but still managed to look ...

(17 pages) 173 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

How the 1920's were a decade of change.

m. Communists and anarchists were stirring trouble for the country, while business was growing into large corporations. Industry was drawing customers to 'get into the new age', by hypnotizing America ...

(3 pages) 90 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History