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first one on my mind was IBM..
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Yeah, that's true about Bell Labs.Originally posted by Sten Sture
(edit: Bell Labs is now in the Lucent group iirc)
Ford was just an efficient manufacturerer of a product ...
Totally disagree with your dismissal of Ford though. The scale and type of efficiencies added to Ford's manufacturing process between 1908 and 1919 was nothing short of a revolution. In 1908 no automobile manufacturer built more than 10,000 cars a year... just five years later, in 1913, Ford built 224,783 of the cars, four years after that, the number more than tripled to 834,662. In this time, the price of the auto dropped by 'most 2/3rds, from $950 to $360.
As I stated, Ford was the first corporation to bring the benefits of the Industrial Revolution to the masses, something that Standard Oil never did (until the masses needed a fillup, that is.
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I'd vote for Ford or ATT as well. Probably lean more towards Ford because the mass production of cars has really changed everything.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Re: What is the most influential corporation of all time?
The first one.Originally posted by JohnT
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United Fruit is a good choice, but only on a local scale. United Fruit didn't have the impact that the aforementioned choices did...say...the Dutch East India Company or General Motors. While they may not have controlled entire countries, they had more influence globally than United Fruit by far.Bah. Changing the way people live? Small potatoes! Proper corporations control the fates of entire countries. Like United Fruit.
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The Bilderberg Group.
Not quite a corporation... but definitely the most influential.Some cry `Allah O Akbar` in the street. And some carry Allah in their heart.
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Union Pacific Railroad.
Won the court case that provided the precedent for corporations being regarded as "natural persons"; a decision we've suffered from since.Only feebs vote.Comment
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