Essays Tagged: "Silicon Valley"

The New Economy

proachesto compensation, and new ways of launching enterprises--what isoften referred to as a Silicon Valley System--Note that this "Silicon Valley System" spreads across the countryand th ...

(5 pages) 149 1 3.8 Sep/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Main contributing factors for the success of Hong Kong in attracting and sustaining new start companies.

nnovation. He describes creativity as a 'knock on effect', causing innovation to spread, similar to Silicon Valley.Entrepreneurship is taken from the French 'entreprendre', translated as 'go-between' ... and location will ultimately determine the success or failure of a new venture . Success enjoyed by Silicon Valley and Route 128 has been attributed to many factors such as networking, experimentation ...

(21 pages) 448 1 3.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Sylicon Valley - History and the Best Companies

By Dmitri Bodrovd.bodrov@mail.ru http://www.dimasworld.narod.ruSilicon Valley - what is that?This question may have occurred to many people's minds when they came ... what is that?This question may have occurred to many people's minds when they came across the term Silicon Valley. What hides behind it is mostly unknown to them, although the revolutionary invention ... quo;, affect everyone's daily life, and it is hard to imagine our modern civilization without them. Silicon Valley is the heartland of the microelectronics industry that is based on semiconductors.Geo ...

(51 pages) 401 1 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Silicon Valley and how it came about

Silicon ValleySilicon Valley is located in the industrial region in between the Santa Cruz Mountains ... computer companies that have decided to locate their business there since the mid 20th century and silicone being the base material used in computer circuits. The main construction of computers has c ... digital economy and the Internet. Other U.S. states and countries have tried to replicate their own silicone valley but left out the crucial elements, which made the original so successful.Fredrick E. ...

(3 pages) 32 0 3.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Management skills display in outsourcing

y, Indian engineers allowed Sharma spent money on senior mangers, engineers and marketing people in Silicon Valley. However, the salaries of the Indian engineers are only one-fourth of American counte ... ragement, the low-paid Indian engineers will not allow Sharma to spend money on marketing people in Silicon Valley.The author suggests that Sharma should put more efforts on leading American staffs to ...

(7 pages) 241 0 4.7 Aug/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Culture and structure of WL Gore

e rules that most other organizations live by. It is tucked away in the countryside, a far cry from Silicon Valley and even further from the Blue Chip companies that dominate Wall Street. And in its o ...

(4 pages) 43 0 5.0 May/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

eBay Inc. Managing Success in a Dynamic Online Marketplace

IntroductionIn September of 1995 Silicon Valley software engineer Pierre Omidyar spent a long holiday weekend writing the computer co ... ents to eBay's strategy.History & Strategic OverviewEbay was formed as a sole proprietorship by Silicon Valley software engineer Pierre Omidyar on Labor Day Weekend in 1995. Omidyar's purpose was ...

(11 pages) 424 0 4.3 Oct/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > E-commerce

No more Casual Fridays in UK!

ns in the 1980's, apparently in order to fit in with their clients who adopted the liberal style of Silicon Valley. Dress-down Fridays were also thought to boost the creativity of employees and their ...

(2 pages) 12 0 5.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Facilities Management

pecial attention is paid toward the glass lenses used in its product.Company X being located in the Silicon Valley was not coincidence, this location was chosen for two main reasons: Customers and Lab ... Customers and Labor. Many companies that require products manufactured by Company X are located in Silicon Valley, as well as the highly skilled workers in the clean rooms required to manufacture suc ...

(3 pages) 29 0 5.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Marketing Plan Phase I

of Speak EasySpeak Easy Corporation is a creative and innovative electronic company located in the Silicon Valley, California. Speak Easy employs 130 hand picked engineers from the best and brightest ...

(6 pages) 162 0 4.3 Jul/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > Computer and Electronics Companies

Marketing Plan Phase IV

of Speak EasySpeak Easy Corporation is a creative and innovative electronic company located in the Silicon Valley, California. Speak Easy employs 130 hand picked engineers from the best and brightest ... urgh/CMU and three other teams from three other companies based in New York, San Francisco, and the Silicon Valley to combine speech recognition, translation, and voice synthesis (Yeomans, 2003). The ...

(21 pages) 460 0 5.0 Jul/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

College Pressure

er field. After the dot com crush in the new millenium many are left many programmer without a job. Silicon valley cut 130000 jobs in last year alone. Many family are being affected. A society needs a ...

(2 pages) 26 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Silicon Valley Technology Review

Silicon Valley Technologies, a simulation of a technology based corporation, gathered their top twen ... Directors and seven Managers. The purpose of this simulation was to handle diverse problems within Silicon Valley Technologies with all the real life complexities that arise when running an organizat ... nsidered to be the most important issues that facing the productivity and successful performance of Silicon Valley Technologies in the future.Communication While part of the Silicon Valley Technologie ...

(5 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Critique of Rupert Murdoch's "Let Us Give Thanks to Our Immigrants" essay

o real comprehensive study done on immigrant-owned businesses, but there are countless examples. In Silicon Valley, company started by Chinese and Indian immigrants generated over $19 billion in sales ...

(3 pages) 1587 0 5.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

"Charles Schwab in 2002" What are the main pints of the Charles Schwab's case? What are the lessons learned?

e methods to customers to trade, attract and target more customers, and utilize its location in the silicon-valley. Schwab set targets to make use IT. It was aiming to have, high-tech, high-touch, eas ...

(3 pages) 34 0 3.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Markets & Exchanges

Dot.com bursts versus Wall Street

bout the "information superhighway" in the early 1990s, however, the "big end of town" - Hollywood, Silicon Valley, telecommunications carriers, cable companies, and media conglomerates, all began inv ...

(8 pages) 24 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Article Analysis #1 Western International University MGT 463 February 8, 2009

remove the name of 'Little Saigon' to be replaced by 'Saigon Business District' along Story Road in Silicon Valley, California (McLaughlin, 2009). The underlying central problem in this article focuse ...

(4 pages) 23 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Analysis of Apple's Steve Jobs personality traits

ccountant, adopted him as an infant. He grew up in the apricot orchards which later became known as Silicon Valley, and currently still lives there with his wife and three children.While studying at t ...

(15 pages) 107 0 3.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication

Monitoring System

s industrial factors and industry gathered.American scholar Anneli. Saxenian's "Regional Advantage: Silicon Valley and Route 128 region, culture and competition" said that caused the two major differe ... ral factors, and he made a profound comparative analysis with them. Although the Route 128 area and Silicon Valley developed a similar technology, in the same market on the activities of the United St ...

(15 pages) 28 0 0.0 Dec/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Google

& Mark Malseed, 55-115)For Google's millions of users worldwide, and especially for its fans in Silicon Valley, the fact that anything could be seriously wrong there must strain credulity. In a sh ... ly for jobs at Google every day (Allverson, 54-132). The founding of Google is already the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. In 1995, Page and Brin were roller-hockey-obsessed doctoral students in compu ...

(14 pages) 82 0 0.0 Jul/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers