...Was assassinated on the last day of the fair. Business associate of Holmes, as well as a victim of one of holmes murders Hired to create the midway for the fair Indiana native lured to Chicago by Holmes, who offers her a job and later proposes to her. Holmes kills Emeline before she leaves Chicago. Creator of the Ferris wheel. Detective for the chicago pd He was chief architect which meant if the fair were to not be successful it would ultimately fall on his shoulders and the pressure motivated him, was partners with root. Chose the color of all the building to be white hence the “white city” Was burnham's partner but died before construction of the fair, burnham contemplated been going on without him. Very important to the fair. was very helpful to olmsteads part of construction. Attracted vulnerable women and then killed them Saw the fair as not only a chance to take advantage of them women coming from all over the world to see it. holmes first wife, and the only wife that holmes did not kill. wanted the landscaping done a certain way very specific idea in mind. Very ill throughout novel with foot pains and insomnia. Tried to get his cast for mayor in but failed to do...
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...dynamic open economies. It has boasted annual economic growth rates during the “celtic tiger” boom years in excess of averages for the rest of the developed world. (Enterprise Ireland 2006) By the end of the year 2000, Ireland could boast fourteen years of continued economic growth. (Burnham 2003) This translated into an economy that boasted one of the lowest unemployment rates in the EU. The ruling government were in a position of a growing government surplus and a low inflation rate. (Burnham 2003) Record growth was recorded during the 90’s, and with a 10% average rate for the years 1997-2000. (Enterprise Ireland 2006) This has catapulted Ireland from being one of the poorest economies in the EU, to one of the wealthiest. GDP per capita for the year 2005, was equivalent to €38,000. This was only second to Luxembourg in the EU. This is in contrast to the mid 1980’s when Ireland’s unemployment rate was 17%, the government’s finances were chaotic and many Irish citizens saw emigration as the norm. A transformation of the economy, which included changes in fiscal policy and policies in relation to tax, education and telecommunications were put into position in order to kick-start the economy. (Burnham 2003) These and many other factors contributed to the past two decades of economic prosperity. These factors must be closely examined to determine if the economic boom of the past...
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...This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic Research Volume Title: Mergers and Acquisitions Volume Author/Editor: Alan J. Auerbach, ed. Volume Publisher: University of Chicago Press Volume ISBN: 0-226-03209-4 Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/auer87-1 Publication Date: 1987 Chapter Title: The Growth of the "Junk" Bond Market and Its Role in Financing Takeovers Chapter Author: Robert A. Taggart, Jr. Chapter URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c5819 Chapter pages in book: (p. 5 - 24) 1 The Growth of the “Junk” Bond Market and Its Role in Financing Takeovers Robert A. Taggart, Jr. 1.1 Introduction “Junk” bonds, as they are popularly called, or “high-yield’’ bonds, as they are termed by those wishing to avoid pejorative connotations, are simply bonds that are either rated below investment grade or unrated altogether.’ Fueled by the introduction of newly issued junk bonds in 1977, this segment of the bond market has grown rapidly in recent years and now accounts for more than 15 percent of public corporate bonds outstanding. However, the growth of junk bond financing, particularly in hostile takeover situations, has been bitterly denounced. For example, Martin Lipton, a merger specialist with the firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz, has argued that junk bond financing threatens “the destruction of the fabric of American industry” (Williams 1984). In a similar vein, twelve U.S. senators signed a letter in support...
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...Ferris Wheel to rival the awe-inspiring Eiffel Tower. Despite being the man who had a huge part in the creation of the Ferris Wheel, the man who is not recognized for many of his accomplishments at the Chicago World’s Fair, and one of the most important architects at the Chicago World’s fair, Daniel Burnham is not well-known. The Chicago World’s Fair was an interesting, complicated time in history; therefore, Erik Larson attempts to portray the life of not only Daniel Burnham, but also the life of America’s first real serial killer, H.H.Holmes in his book, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America. Erik Larson gives good insight into human nature, but his arguments do have some flaws. The author of The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Erik Larson, argues that women are easy targets because they are ignorant and vulnerable, but his claim is not true when the reader looks at the successful women in business seen today. H.H.Holmes viewed “women as a class” as “so wonderfully vulnerable,” and that is the only way Erik Larson portrays them throughout the book (The Devil in the White City 62). How could Larson not see that many women nowadays and in that time appear invulnerable? For example, Laura Thayer, the Director of Optum Care Operations, explained that “in the workplace, [she has] never been a person that has felt vulnerable at work because of [her] sex.” Although she does admit this...
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...Every firm (small or large), cafe, restaurant are the active microeconomics households, which influence the situation of the whole ,market. It is possible, that a single small firm can produce high-quality wares which are praised by people and very soon other firms, which produce similar wares but of lower quality will possible bankrupt being unable to compete with that one (Howson, Cindy, Successful Business Intelligence 2013). With the run of time that small firm can turn into a great company or corporation and become a leading monopolistic on the market. This is why I have decided to research Time Warner Cable. The history of the company is unlike any other with their cutting edge digital technology, range of home entertainment and information choices for the whole family to enjoy, and superior customer service that demonstrates customer satisfaction is the company's number one priority. In the late 1940s, entrepreneurs using simple antennas an Army surplus coaxial cable created the country's first cable television system and revolutionized the way Americans watched television (Warner Sperling, Cass, The Brothers Warner 2008). More than 70 years later, Time Warner Cable (TWC), the second largest cable provider, owns and manages advanced, well clustered cable systems throughout the United States and is ready to embark on it's next life phase of merging with Charter Communications. With the spread of the medium of television in the years following World War II, entrepreneurs...
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...Successful leadership – how would you know? Boardrooms and business school classrooms are equally preoccupied with leadership, and success is often assumed to be about profit or Total Shareholder Return. It’s neither. For leaders wanting to measure their own success, for those who appoint leaders to know what they are aiming at and for outsiders assessing the quality of leadership, Andrew Likierman shows how to do it. Thinking W as Julius Caesar a successful leader? What about Ghenghis Khan? Simon Bolivar? Or Napoleon? Because we tend to think of these as military leaders, the answers look pretty straightforward. Each achieved major military successes. But then Napoleon was ultimately defeated – does that make him a failure? After all, he won a lot of battles before Waterloo, and his sweeping political and legal reforms have been the basis of French administrative life for nearly 200 years. Now let’s move to the politicians. How do you feel about describing Bill Clinton as a successful leader? George W. Bush? Tony Blair? Vladimir Putin? This is altogether more difficult ground. Some of you will have already decided; those of you who have not made up your minds could argue that it is too early to say. The historic verdict on Bush and Blair will probably depend on what happens to Iraq over the next 20 years. Those better informed about Russia than I am can make up their own minds about Putin. Moving next to business territory, with a few exceptions – say Bill Gates, Herb...
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...“Entrepreneurs are born not made.” Critically analyse this statement with reference to the literature and to your experience of entrepreneurship. This essay aims to evaluate the various traits identified with entrepreneurs, and then establish whether entrepreneurs are born with these traits, or whether, they are shaped and developed through their life experiences. Put simply the purpose of this essay is to establish whether entrepreneurs are ‘born or made’. This essay focuses on two distinct schools of researchers in the field of entrepreneurship: The more traditional group of researchers has focused on the personality characteristics of the individual, the internal factors, whilst a second group of researchers have taken a social cognitive approach. They look at the relationship between an individual and his or her environment. The external factors include culture, role models, work experience, education, and environment. This essay looks at the early definitions of an entrepreneur, evaluates the literature which supports the theory that entrepreneurs are ‘born’, and also evaluates the proposal that there is a relationship between the individual entrepreneur and their social environment, that is, entrepreneurs are ‘made’. Cantillon (1756) defined the entrepreneur as engaging in business without an assurance of profits; thus the bearing of risk being the distinguishing feature of an entrepreneur. Jean Baptiste Say expanded on this by making the entrepreneur the pivot of the...
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...employ more than 75,000 health care workers that services approximately 50,000 people daily. Interim HealthCare offers both home care and home health care services to a variety of settings including hospitals, nursing homes, physician offices, prisons, schools, and clinics. In addition, Interim HealthCare also offers hospice services for terminally ill patients in their last months of life to provide the highest degree of comfort and dignity possible using state-of-the-art symptom management for quality care. With the growing need for qualified supplemental health care staff and employees as the challenges of health care staffing have become more complex, Interim HealthCare has been able to adapt and meet these challenges that the current healthcare environment presents everyday (Interim HealthCare Inc., 2012). A quote by Daniel H. Burnham “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood…. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work…” This quote is...
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...Empire (Phillippines) ideal of progress civilization get better and better civilized uncivilized Louisiana Purchase 1904 idea of amusement zone in fair control by the same corporation social practice etc. People want to be not just educated but also make it fun Midway was kind of confused area. Music Hall, Saloon, real urban place high aspiration low quality Louisiana 1889 PARIS 3 out 4 Chicago world fAIR WORLD COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION 1889 Saint Louis world fair in 1889 nationalism how did it start. PHILLIPINE RESERVATION World Fair Chicago Columbian Exposition...
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...over a hundred thousand groups and over two million members worldwide. Bill Wilson’s program became what we know today as Alcoholics Anonymous or simply A.A.. Bill Wilson wrote the book, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered From Alcoholism, and co-founded the 12 step program with Dr. Bob Smith. In 1999 Time Magazine listed him as “Bill W.: The Healer” in the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century (Time Magazine 153). Bill Griffith Wilson was born November 26th, 1895 in East Dorset Vermont, to Gilman and Emily Wilson. He was born the night before Thanksgiving behind the bar at his parents home and business Mount Aeolus Inn and Tavern. He had a sister, Dorothy Wilson who was four years younger than him. In the spring of 1906 his mother took both children on a picnic to Emerald Lake in Vermont to tell them that their father was not coming home from a business trip and that they were going to get divorced. After the divorce Emily Wilson left her children to be raised by her parents, Fayette and Ella Griffith, while she went to study at the Boston College of Osteopathy to better herself and eventually become a doctor. This had a great impact on Bill and he later wrote to his mother that “this certainly did something to me that left a very deep mark” (Cheever 22-24). Bill needed a lot of intellectual stimulation during his childhood. He...
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...THE CROOKS in your company have never been so tempted. The spread of technology that makes office work easier can make white-collar crimes almost laughably simple. Laser printers can forge documents with breathtaking fidelity, and color copiers can reproduce them. Imagine a dishonest executive boarding a plane and carrying a laptop computer with a modem. Using the on- board telephone, he hooks up to the mainframe at headquarters and transfers $50 million to his Swiss bank account -- as he jets toward Rio. Such new opportunities, plus the spirit of an age that encourages rather than represses the natural lust for wealth, are greatly intensifying the allure of ripping off one's employer. The amounts being stolen from companies appear to be growing dramatically. In the past several weeks a former General Electric Capital manager, allegedly in cahoots with a bank vice president, was charged with taking $30,000 in kickbacks as part of a scheme that resulted in $4.5 million of fraudulent loans. A Continental Illinois vice president went on trial charged with approving $1 billion of bad loans in exchange for $585,000 in kickbacks, loans that allegedly cost the Chicago bank $800 million and helped trigger its 1984 collapse. FDIC investigators say internal fraud was the major cause of one-third of all bank failures over the past two years. To some extent the victims have themselves to blame. A company with shoddy financial controls or badly trained internal auditors practically begs employees...
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...‘Double Hegemony’? State and Class in American Foreign Economic Policymaking CHRISTOPH SCHERRER, UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL Published in: Amerikastudien 46 (2001, 4), 573-591. ABSTRACT The paper introduces research on transatlantic relations done by neo-Gramscian authors. This research is distinctive by focusing on class in international relations and by using the concept of hegemony in a relational sense. Hegemony is leadership through the active consent of other classes and groups. A central question of this neo-Gramscian research is whether an international class of capitalists has emerged. Some authors have answered in the positive. This paper, however, maintains that hegemony in the international realm is still exercised by the American state, though its foreign economic policies have been greatly influenced by internationally-oriented corporations and that these actors have increasingly found allies among economic elites in other countries. The paper explores the relationship between hegemony by the American state and by internationally-oriented capital groups against the backdrop of transatlantic relations in the post-war period and the current debate on labor rights in international trade agreements. 1. Introduction The United States government has been, without doubt, the decisive force in establishing and shaping the main multilateral institutions of the world market since the Second World War. It has consistently pursued the opening of other nations’ markets to gain...
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...| [Year] | [Organisational behaviour] | | Table of Contents 1 Understand how organizational structures and cultures impact in the effectiveness of the organization 3 1.1 Analysis the characteristics of different organizational structures 3 1.1.1 Definition of Organizational culture. 3 1.2 Evaluate the importance of organizational culture theory in developing organizational effectiveness 4 1.3 Analyze the culture and structure of one organization and evaluate how they impact on its effectiveness 5 1.3.1 Tesco Structure 5 1.3.2 Tesco Culture 6 2 Understand how the organization can improve employee effectiveness to respond to business opportunities 6 2.1 Analyse how organization can facilitate innovation and creativity 6 2.2 Assess the importance of learning in organizations 7 2.3 Evaluate the effectiveness of team working 7 2.4 Analyse the effective management of change in organization 7 3 Understand organizational decision making 8 3.1 Analyse the approaches of organizational decision making 8 3.2 Assess approaches to risk and uncertainty in decision making 8 3.3 Evaluate the effectiveness of organizational decision in a specific organization 8 4 References: 10 * Understand how organizational structures and cultures impact in the effectiveness of the organization Analysis the characteristics of different organizational structures Definition of Organizational culture. Organizational culture can b defined in...
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...studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following: • Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the partnership form of organization. • Explain where the major differences lie in the accounting for corporations and partnerships. • Apply the three accounting methods available to record the admission of a new partner, and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of each method. • Apply the accounting methods for the recording of the retirement of a partner. • Prepare the journal entries to record the liquidation of a partnership when a cash payment to partners is made only after the sale of all of the partnership assets. • Prepare a schedule of the liquidation of a partnership where instalment payments to partners are made as cash becomes available. • Prepare a cash distribution plan prior to the commencement of the partnership liquidation. 1 2 CHAPTER 15 ACCOUNTING FOR PARTNERSHIPS This chapter will examine the accounting practices involved in the partnership form of business organization. The major differences between corporations and partnerships appear in the equity section of the balance sheet. The accounting principles involved have been in use for many years; they are a prime example of principles that are not the subject of professional pronouncements, but rather are generally accepted by virtue of their use by similar organizations over time. Before discussing the accounting for partnerships, we will briefly describe this form of organization and some...
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...Health Care in the Early 1960s Rosemary A. Stevens, Ph.D. My topic, health care in the early 1960s, has a double set of meanings for me. I am a historian, and the 1960s are now "history," ripe for new interpretations. Yet I was also an immigrant to the United States in 1961, fresh from working as an administrator in the British National Health Service. The period immediately before the Medicare legislation in 1965 shines in my memory with the vividness of new impressions: those of a young health care student trying to make sense of the U. S. health care system, and indeed, of the United States. The health care system and the United States as a society stand, in many ways, as proxy for each other, now as then: The whole tells you much about the part, and the part about the whole. In the early 1960s, health care was already a massive enterprise. By the late 1950s, hospitals employed far more people than the steel industry, the automobile industry, and interstate railroads. One of every eight Americans was admitted annually as an inpatient (Somers and Somers, 1961). To study health care, with all its contradictions and complexities, in the 1960s as in the present, is to explore the character and ambiguities of the United States itself, that vast, brash, divided yet curiously hopeful Nation. On the face of it, the United States was a country blessed by plenty in the 1960s, with hospitals and professionals that were the envy of the world. Among the marvels of modern hospitals that...
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