It is strongly corporate, hierarchical and career-oriented, resembling nothing so much as any great American corporation in the 1950s.
However, there is simply no body of knowledge even remotely comparable of similar pedigree about how to be a great publicly traded corporation.
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The Great Lakes chemical corporation, formerly known as Octel, has been in the town for 50 years, and is one of the world's leading producer of certain speciality chemicals for applications like water treatment.
Similarly, Tanaka Hisashige, who founded the company which is now the Toshiba Corporation, spent a great deal of the early 19th century building clockwork robots such as this one.
There is a great deal of difference between a corporation set up in a day, without any real employees or assets, and one that has been in existence for many years and that gets purchased, in part, by a U.S. firm.
Whether you run a neighborhood bar or a multinational corporation, now would be great time to think through how your company can put its best foot forward when the Great Blizzard, Wildfire or Temblor of 2013 strikes.
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On the one hand these managers may be some of the largest, if not the largest shareholder of a large corporation and as such may ostensibly hold great voting power.
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It should be noted that Lynch was a big buyer of Chrysler Corporation during the automaker's time of great distress and its government-backed bailout in the late 1970s and early 1980s, so he was not one to shy away from a turnaround play.
Especially dangerous are those changes that would undermine one of the great, essential pillars of past and future prosperity: the limited-liability corporation.
Just before coming here, we took a series of steps to try and unblock and get moving our housing market, where we've cut corporation tax in our country to show that it's a great destination for investment.
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This article is by Mark Ryski, author of Conversion: The Last Great Retail Metric and When Retail Customers Count and chief executive and founder of HeadCount Corporation.
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"This is something that has been needed to be done for a long time, so here for us it's nice to see a close to the chapter, so to speak, and right an old wrong, " Anthony Griffiths, the great-grandson of Kelly's youngest sister Grace, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation before the ceremony.
Matt Manson, CEO of Stornoway Diamond Corporation, is one of the mining executives who think the extension is of great significance.
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The interdependence of these three functions of a corporation creates positive spillover effects, and can explain how a company can remain great.
And yet Shell proudly advertises itself as a corporation deeply concerned with developing clean energy and ensuring a viable energy future, even going to great lengths to organize well-branded "eco-marathons" completely at odds with its relentless fossil fuel extraction.
Thanks to Acting CEO Nicky Goren, as well as John Kelly and Kristin McSwain, from the Corporation for National and Community Service, and to the members of our Federal Mentoring Council for all their great work.
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