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Henry "Hank" Rearden. Henry (known as "Hank") Rearden is one of the central characters in Atlas Shrugged. He owns the most important steel company in the United States, and invents Rearden Metal, an alloy stronger, lighter, cheaper and tougher than steel. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Lillian, his brother Philip, and his elderly mother.
2 ExxonMobil: 244,363 71,200 Multinational oil and gas company and largest of the Big Oil entities. The firm is headquartered in Spring, Texas north of Houston. Subsidiaries include Exxon, Mobil, and Esso. 9 AT&T: 160,546 254,000 Multinational telecommunications holding company which includes many components of the former Bell System.
This list of the oldest companies in the United States includes brands and companies, excluding associations, educational, government or religious organizations. To be listed, a brand or company name must remain, either whole or in part, since inception. To limit the scope of this list, only companies established before 1820 are listed.
978-0201407198. The Discipline of Market Leaders is a 1995 non-fiction book written by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema and published by Addison-Wesley. The book discusses competitive business strategies. [1] It made The New York Times Best Seller list after the authors placed orders for thousands of copies of their own book.
Federal Reserve Economic Data ( FRED) is a database maintained by the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that has more than 816,000 economic time series from various sources. [1] They cover banking, business/fiscal, consumer price indexes, employment and population, exchange rates, gross domestic product, interest rates ...
Strategy. Porter's generic strategies describe how a company pursues competitive advantage across its chosen market scope. There are three/four generic strategies, either lower cost, differentiated, or focus. A company chooses to pursue one of two types of competitive advantage, either via lower costs than its competition or by differentiating ...
Fred Swaniker (born 1976) is a Ghanaian serial entrepreneur and leadership development expert on a mission to help the world's most extraordinary talent fulfil its potential. Swaniker recognized the importance of leadership and education while serving as the headmaster of a secondary school founded by his mother at the age of 17, and believed ...
Germany. AEG. BenQ Mobile. Bankruptcy in 2006, defunct in 2007. Grundig Mobile. Hagenuk Telecom GmbH. insolvency in 1997, mobile phone development and manufacturing business acquired by Telital in 1998 [ 9] Siemens Mobile. Acquired by BenQ Corporation in 2005 to form BenQ Mobile.