They were a constant hazard to the people in the streets. Nikola Tesla was an immigrant from Serbia; before he came to New York, he worked for a phone company in Budapest and later Paris; where the Continental Edison Company employed him. His supervisor wrote a letter of recommendation, which he took to Thomas Edison. He presented his plans of alternating current and an alternating current motor to Edison and Edison did not care about it. He, however, hired Tesla due to his intellect and offered him $50,000 if he succeeded in improving his DC generation plants.
In December of 1903 Lawrence Exeter senior now buy’s toys for his newly born for Christmas. In 1909 Lawrence senior sends Lawrence Exeter junior to an all boy’s school. Lawrence senior buys his son his first bike when he was 7 years old. Son goes to a military academy when he is only 12 years old. When son was old enough his dad bought him a Cadillac for his first car in 1921.
(Black Pioneers of Science & Inventions, Haber, pg 13-15) Rillieux at a young age asked a lot of questions about the machines around the plantations and how they worked. His father as an engineer and inventor of the steam-operation cotton-bailing press, was really proud of his son and wanted to send him to receive the best education he could get. Because of the color difference the best school in New Orleans did not accept him,but that didn't stop Rillieux father. First because Rillieux was baptize as a catholic he went to catholic schools and study for his early age. Then, Rillieux father send him to Paris best school (L'Ecole) were there were no racial restrictions, to study engineering.
He built hotels, and then bought railroads to connect them to other hotels, improving and even founding cities as he moved down the east coast to Miami. When others would have stopped, he saw the possibilities of continuing to Key West and accepted the challenge. By connecting an isolated string of islands to the rest of the world, Henry Morrison Flagler made his dream and The Keys come true. Born in Hopewell, New York in 1830, he left school at age 14 and moved to Ohio to work (and live) with his half-brother at a general store. Being a natural salesman, he quickly advanced from his original salary of $5 a month, and by age 22, he was partners with his half-brother in a grain business and distillery (Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2004).
Ford set off at the age of sixteen to the nearby town of Detroit, Michigan to work as a machinist apprentice during this time he was introduced to the small combustion engine. In 1882, Henry finished his apprenticeship and was a full fledge machinist. After three years he went back home working only part time for Westinghouse Engine Company, which hired him to demonstrate steam engines on nearby farms, and in his spare time he worked at his machine shop he opened on his family's property. During the winter months he would work in his shop building steam engines. Henry believed that machines could be developed to make farming easier.
During his early years, Ehrich sold newspapers and shined shoes to help support the family. Then on October 28, 1883, nine year old Ehrich made his first appearance on stage, performing a trapeze act. He called himself Ehrich, The Prince of Air. When Ehrich was 12 he hopped a freight car and ran away from home. A year later he came back to New York and continued to help support his family by working as a messenger, necktie cutter, and photography assistant.
Benjamin Franklin Born January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts Benjamin Franklin was one of 20 children and the youngest boy. Father Josiah Franklin and Mother Abiah Folger, Benjamin had one child. Benjamin was one of the founding fathers of America and was a author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. Benjamin attended Boston Latin School until he was 10 years old and his father pulled him out to work with him making candles. Dipping wax wasn’t cutting it for Ben’s creative mind so he apprenticed at his brothers print shop when he was 12 despite his brothers harsh treatments.
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
George Eastman, who was the founder of Kodak, started his business career as a 14-year old boy when he had to quit school and work to support his mother and two sisters. Mr. Eastman had a gift for organization and management while his lively and inventive mind made him a successful entrepreneur by his mid-twenties. Eastman Kodak (Kodak) was the largest photographic filmmaker established in 1880 in the world and one of the representative firms which ranked 43th in the Fortune 500 in 1955. However, Kodak retreated to 327th in 2011 and filed protection for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 19 January 2012. There are various comments on the Kodak’s business failure that Kodak was late to adapt to the wave of digitalization.
He was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs in the same year he was born. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Los Altos, California. He met Steve Wozniak in a summer job, which had a genius IQ and was an engineering whiz with a passion for inventing electronic gadgets. At that time Wozniak was working in a “blue box”, an illegal pocket-size telephone attachment that allowed the user to make free long-distance calls, in which Job got involved helping Wozniak to sell the device to consumers. In 1972, Jobs went to Reed College in Portland, Oregon, which he dropped out after one semester staying around Reed and becoming involved in the counterculture.