Multinational corporations have existed since the beginning of overseas trade. They have remained a part of the business scene throughout history‚ entering their modern form in the 17th and 18th centuries with the creation of large‚ European-based monopolistic concerns such as the British East India Company during the age of colonization. Multinational concerns were viewed at that time as agents of civilization and played a pivotal role in the commercial and industrial development of Asia‚ South
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Introduction Microsoft Corporation is a multinational company based in Redmond Washington. The company manufactures computer products and offer computer services. The company also licenses and supports various types of computer products and services. Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The company is the largest software manufacturer globally in terms of revenue. It is also the most valuable organization in the world. Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the company
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Comcast Corporation is situated in the United States and is mainly involved in cable television‚ internet and phone services business. In addition‚ the company is also involved in the provision of an extended range of facilities that include entertainment and communication services and products. The Comcast Corporation is able to cater for most of the needs of their residential and commercial customers who may be in need of their services or products. Comcast Company has been in operation for about
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Health Cruises‚ Inc. Health Cruises‚ Inc. packages cruises to Caribbean islands such as Martinique and the Bahamas. Like conventional cruises‚ the packages are designed to be fun. But the cruise is structured to help participants become healthier by breaking old habits‚ such as smoking and overeating. The Miami-based firm was conceived by Susan Isom‚ 30‚ a self-styled innovator and entrepreneur. Prior to this venture‚ she had spent several years in North Carolina promoting a behavior-modification
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Article and Business Evaluation Intel Corporation Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore Founded Intel in 1968. The two scientists had a vision for semiconductor memory products. In the year of 1971‚ the first microprocessor was shown to the world. Today Intel continues to grow not only in computer technology‚ but in the scientific areas of chemistry. Intel has reached out and opened doors to the world offering education‚ inspiration
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1. How did the Affordable Care Act (ACA) attempt to expand access to health insurance? (Kaiser Family Foundation Summary of the ACA handout and the NY Times article). According to the (Kaiser Family Foundation Summary of the ACA handout and the NY Times article) Medicaid is expanding where more Americans will be eligible for medicaid‚ to all low income people who are under the age 65‚ so mostly adults‚ pregnant women‚ children‚ parents and etc. to get the care they need so that for example a family
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The MetalWorks Corporation A Network Configuration Project Using LogicNetPlus Software1 THE BUSINESS PROBLEM MetalWorks is a company that produces and distributes steel file cabinets and lockable steel storage boxes‚ known in the Industry as safety boxes. Currently the company runs two manufacturing facilities‚ one located in Des Moines‚ Iowa which manufactures both products and the other located in Dover‚ Delaware that produces just the file cabinets. These two facilities serve all of the approximately
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Assignment File 37 Assignment 4 Due date: 7 June 2010 Read the case ’ Strategic and Organizational Change at Black & Decker ’ and answer the questions below. Each question carries 25% of the marks for this assignment. Questions How would you characterize Black & Decker ’s international expansion during the 1950s and 1960s? What strategy was the company pursuing? What was the key feature of the international organization structure that Black & Decker operated with at this time? Did Black
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12-14-cent-an-hour for your hard work‚ imagine you work with toxic chemical glues‚ paints and solvents everyday. Multinational Corporation is a company that make and sells a product in more than one country. Sometime we called a ¡°transnational corporation ¡±. Multinational Corporation are harmful because of bad working condition‚ low wage and long hours‚ bad future and life. Multinational corporations are harmful because they have bad working conditions. According to Sweatshop Fact sheet‚ workers who work for
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ways to produce a specific product do so in abundance and share it through global trade with the world‚ rather than it be extremely difficult and costly for a single state to do it alone. Through foreign direct investment‚ multinational corporations are able to invest in other countries by establishing their own facilities in foreign territories. This is the base of globalization. Through FDI and MNCs companies are locating closer to customers and introducing themselves in the same area as
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