While at Northwestern, Hall attended classes with a fellow student named Carroll L. Griffith who would later go on to become the founder of Griffith Laboratories. After graduation, Hall earned a graduate degree from the University of Chicago. Hall was soon hired by the Western Electric Company through a telephone interview. When he showed up for his first day, however, he was told by a personnel officer that "we don't take niggers." Recovering from this slight, he began working for the Chicago Department of Health as a chemist and was promoted in 1917 to senior chemist.
Peter Drucker, known as the “father of modern management”, called Greenleaf, “the wisest man I ever met”. Robert K. Greenleaf was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1904. His father was a machinist and master mechanic. His father also ran the “Practice Shops” at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (formerly Rose Polytechnic), where students could help construct and repair machines of commercial accounts. (OriginalServantLeader) Greenleaf graduated from Wiley High School in 1922.
US Steel – Andrew Carnegie sold Carnegie Steel in 1900 to a new steel corporation headed by JP Morgan US Steel. First billion dollar company, largest company in the world, owned over 3/5 of the nation’s steel industry 7. Federal Government Aid to RRs – Federal gov’t provided RR companies with huge loans and land grants (170+ acres of land), helped build a transcontinental RR during Civil War (Union Pacific + Central Pacific = Promontory Point), 4 other transcontinental RRs built. Panic of 1893 JP Morgan consolidated smaller RRs into large companies, essentially eliminated competition in RR industry 8. Andrew Carnegie and his Theories of Wealth – “Wealth” – essay arguing the wealth had a god given responsibility to care out charity to benefit society, put over $350M into support for libraries, universities, and other public institutions 9.
Case Study 3: Selection of Pressure Vessel Manufacturer I. Major Facts: The engineering department hand-carried a purchase requisition for a pressure vessel to Jack Toole, supply manager, Oceanics, Inc. Immediately, Jack asked twenty pressure vessel manufactures for their quotes. Once received, Jack narrowed them down to two potential suppliers out of the eighteen. The two likely suppliers are Nuclear Vessels and Atomic Products Company.
Sundback increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven, had two facing-rows of teeth that pulled into a single piece by the slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider. The patent for the 'Separable Fastener' was issued in 1917. Sundback also created the manufacturing machine for the new zipper. The 'S-L' or scrapless machine took a special Y-shaped wire and cut scoops from it, then punched the scoop dimple and nib, and clamped each scoop on a cloth tape to produce a continuous zipper chain. Within the first year of operation, Sundback's zipper-making machinery was producing a few hundred feet of fastener per day.
It was in the first part of January, 1848, when the gold was discovered at Coloma, where I was then building a saw-mill. The contractor and builder of this mill was James W. Marshall, from New Jersey. In the fall of 1847, after the mill seat had been located, I sent up to this place Mr. P. L. Wimmer with his family, and a number of laborers, from the disbanded Mormon Battalion; and a little later I engaged Mr. Bennet from Oregon to assist Mr. Marshall in the mechanical labors of the mill. Mr. Wimmer had the team in charge, assisted by his young sons, to do the necessary teaming, and Mrs. Wimmer did the cooking for all hands. I was very much in need of a new saw-mill, to get lumber to finish my large flouring mill, of four run of stones, at
Business Law And Business Ethics The Jack Welch Era at General Electric Story of General Electrics 1879 Alva Edison ft J.P Morgan Started Edison Electric Light Company 1892 ELC became General Electric Company 1900’s GE started to make research and invention to locomotives and new electric appliances 1960 Next Invention in X-Ray Machine, Motion Picture with sound, etc 1981 Jack Welch Era started Jack Welch Born in 1935 from a working-class Irish Parents in Massachusetts Started working at a General Electric plastic factory in 1960 Became GE CEO in the era of 1981 - 2001 Competitive & Aggressive Highly confidence person Temperament Hard worker Jack Welch era at GE Welch Guide Vision : Every GE Business would be the number one or number two player in its industry. If it failed this test, it would be fixed, closed or sold Compact GE Business to one of three areas : core manufacturing, technology or service (closing 73 plants and selling 232 business, acquired RCA) Eliminated jobs through attrition, layoffs, and outsourcing (eliminated 132.000 workers) Strategy & Action Jack Welch era at GE Attacked the GE bureaucracy • Demolished hierarchy by laying off thousands of central staff in strategic planning, personnel, etc • Promoting the notion of a “boundary-less” organization • The practice of workout sessions Emphasized Globalization • Every manager of each GE Business was held responsible for globalizing the business Differentiation • Differentiate between employee : Inept Manager called Turkeys and Dinks, Standout manager called “all-starts”. • Designed annual performance measurement, categorized managers into a vitality curve rank : A (20 %) – B(70 %) – C(10 %). Jack Welch era at GE The Result & Achievements • More than 400 acquisition of GE business • GE business shifted
15) went by the name of John Roebling. Roebling was the engineer and designer of the bridge, long after his discovery of how you could work wire into cable to create suspension bridges. Roebling came to design suspension bridges through his earlier work on canals. Trained as an engineer at Berlin's Royal Polytechnic Institute, Roebling immigrated to the United States in 1831, helping to settle the farming community of Saxonburg in western Pennsylvania. After doing that he moved on from there and went to work for the rail road where he became troubled by their reliance on dangerously breakable hemp rope, in about 1839, Roebling turned his efforts toward the manufacture of strong but flexible wire rope as an alternative.
His father Herman Einstein was an Engineer while his mother was called Pauline Einstein. His father and uncle owned a company which produces electrical equipments which were based on dc (direct current). Albert studied his primary and secondary at Germany and also obtained teaching training in Switzerland. He obtained a PhD at a young age of 26 and was a professor at age 30. Einstein had some difficulty finding a job but he later found a job to work as a patent Clerk, He later Lectured at many Universities.
* Reports to Max Brisco, Vice President of Manufacturing. * Managed an in-house warehouse that housed the raw material inventories and, maintained adequate buffer inventories. * Executed purchase contracts with vendors, ensuring specifications were met while achieving the best possible price. Basic Issues: * Materials and purchasing department had over 350 vendors for raw material supply. * Raw material lead time ranged from few days to 6 weeks, causing delay.