Business School 9-298-016 Rev. April 2, 1998 Chase Manhattan Corporation: The Making of America's Largest Bank * In mid-August 1995, Walter Shipley, chairman and CEO of Chemical Banking Corporation, was preparing to leave the bank’s Manhattan headquarters building after a long day. For the past four weeks he and other senior Chemical managers had been in intensive negotiations with their counterparts at Chase Manhattan Corporation, including that bank’s chairman and CEO Thomas Labrecque. At issue
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cover ups, legal battles, and filled with a host of other less-than-savory practices and procedures, the food industry in America has caused quite the conundrum. Being powered by a few large corporations, it remains one of the most monopolized industries to this day. Although food is such a big part of the American lifestyle, very few citizens actually know how their food is grown, farmed, or processed, much less the unethical and hidden practices of the companies behind it. These practices have lead
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History A former American holding company, Chase Manhattan Corporation’s roots were planted during the final days of the 18th century in New York. During this time, after an epidemic of yellow fever the New York state legislature chartered the Manhattan Company to build a water supply system to bring clean water to the state. Because of the surplus of capital, some $2 million, the directors voted to use those funds to open an office of “discount and deposit”. On September 1, 1799, the Bank of the
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|Name of the Book |Comments |Availability | | | | |Analytical Chemistry | | |Bassett, J, et al.: | |ICET, PU. | | |Vogel’s Textbook of Quantitative Inorganic
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America. Union Carbide, a U.S. corporation that owns 51% of the plant, based in Danbury Connecticut, was in the dark for many days. Union Carbide made front page across the country for months and is still considered the worst industrial disaster in the history of the planet. The official Indian government panel charged with tabulating deaths and injuries updated the count to more than 3,800 dead and approximately 11,000 with disabilities (Browning, 1). The chemical that was released, methyl isocyanate
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Connie Aiello Student No. 500447896 Professor Terry Roswell SOC103 Environmental Racism and Transnational Corporations “All Americans have a basic right to live, work, play, go to school, and worship in a clean and healthy environment” (Bullard, Dixie xiii). Unfortunately, this is not true for all. Afro-American communities in the South and other visible minorities across the globe, live through the harsh realities of environmental racism every day. (Bullard, Racism 3) In Confronting
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and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies incur. The list includes publicly and privately held companies for which revenues are publicly available. The first Fortune 500 list was published in 1955. 1) Walmart, is an American multinational retail corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's third largest public corporation, according
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Value Chain and its impact on Business Strategy Michael Porter presented the value chain concept as the whole series of activities that create and build value in his 1985 book Competitive Advantage (NetMBA, 2010). Porter developed the five forces model that many businesses and organizations utilize to address how well they can compete in the marketplace (Harvard Business School Press, 2005). In his book, Porter suggests that activities within an organization add value to the service and products
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British Petroleum Corporation – or BP as it is better known throughout the United States after acquiring Amoco and rebranding its gas stations – was incorporated on April 14, 1909, as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd. The current name was adopted in 1982. BP Shipping, which is a subsidiary of BP Holdings, the same parent of BP, was founded in 1915. It is the oldest continuously operating entity in the BP group, tracing its roots back to the creation of the British Tanker Company Limited in 1915
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Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) is an oil and gas company. It is the world’s largest integrated oil company. The company carries out the exploration and production of oil and gas; refining, transportation and marketing of oil and natural gas; and manufacture and sale of petroleum products. ExxonMobil also has interests in petrochemicals and electricity generation facilities. The company operates through three reportable business segments, namely, Upstream, Downstream and Chemical. It offers products
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