Extra Credit
Extra credit can be earned by completing and submitting the company profile forms for the organizations discussed in class. All MUST be turned in by April 20th, and 3 points will be given for each completed (and correct) form submitted (a total of 51 points can be earned). The template can be found here.
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E*Trade Information:
Year Founded
1982 (tradeplus) 1996 (e*trade)
Founder(s) William Porter
Number of Employees 3400
Headquarters NYC New York
Estimated Revenue $3,839.9 Million, 2006
Stock Symbol ETFC
Current stock price 21.70 (4/13)
Mission Statement:
To create long term shareholder value through superior financial performance driven by the delivery of a diversified range of innovative, customer-focused financial products and services and supported by an operating culture based on the highest levels of teamwork, efficiency and integrity
Product:
trading, investing, banking and lending for retail, corporate and institutional customers. And other financial products and services
Community Involvement:
E*Trade is “committed to investing in communities through non-profit partnerships, employee volunteer work and corporate contributions to improve neighborhoods and increase financial literacy”
NAME:___Mapquest_(Time Warner)_____________________________
Year Founded 1967
Founder(s) Barry Glick
Number of Employees 600,000
Headquarters Denver,Colorado and Mountville, Pennsylvania
Estimated Revenue 5.8 billion
Stock Symbol twx
Current stock price 21.19
Mission Statement (Time Warner)To serve the worlds largest and most engaged community.
Product--helps people find places, get there, and find places nearby.
Community Involvement---Time Warner has a long history of working at the community level to provide philanthropic support for many worthwhile causes and organizations. Their goal is to focus resources smartly and strategically and ensure that the work they do connects closely to the company and its values, adding value to the communities in which they do business.
eTapestry info:
Year Founded: 1999
Founder(s):Jay Love, John Moore, & Steve Rusche
Number of Employees 75
Headquarters: Indianapolis, IN
Estimated Revenue: NA
Stock Symbol: NA
Current stock price: NA
Mission Statement:
Simply put, we strive to exhibit the absolute highest level of honesty, professionalism, respect, and a sense of fun, to everyone working with, for, or around us.
We expect people working for us to put the customer first, and we expect them to enjoy their job: to laugh frequently, and to treat each other as friends.
Technology is a powerful tool that helps our customers fulfill their mission more efficiently and effectively. Our desire to advance customer's mission drives us to research and implement the latest technological innovations.
Giving back to the charity world and our community is also important. Besides offering the best, most useful products, we donate time and money to worthy causes.
Making people's lives better in any way we can - that's our philosophy. It always has been, and always will be.
Product:
Online Software for non-profit organizations that keeps track of donor information and other important records.
Community Involvement:
The eTapestry Foundation. They use this organization as a charity that provides financial help to non-profits.
Year Founded
1995
Founder(s)
Pierre Omidyar
Number of Employees
13,000 ('06)
Headquarters
San Jose, Calif.
Estimated Revenue
Net Revenue $1.7 billion (Q4-06)
Stock Symbol
EBAY
Current stock price
34.80
Mission Statement
eBay's mission is to provide a global trading platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything."
Product:
Online Auctions, VoIP, payment transactions, online retail sales, paid search advertising
Community Involvement:
eBay foundation
Netflix:
Year Founded: 1998
Founder: Reed Hastings
Number of Employees: more than 1300
Headquarters: Los Gatos, CA
Estimated Revenue: $997 million (2006)
Stock Symbol: NFLX
Current stock price: 24.51 (4/16)
Mission Statement:
Our appeal and success are built on providing the most expansive selection of DVDs; an easy way to choose movies; and fast, free delivery.
Product:
Netflix is the world's largest online DVD movie rental service.
Community Involvement:
Reed is an active educational philanthropist and board member of many non-profits. Was President of the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004. Led successful statewide political campaigns for more charter public schools and easier passage of local school bonds.
Year Founded:Monster.com founded in 1994 by Chief Monster Jeff Taylor
# of employees:4300
Headquarters Maynard, MA
Estimated Revenue:$1,108- $1,116
In millions
STOCK: MNST
Mission: “Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST) parent company of Monster(R), the premier global online employment solution for more than a decade, strives to bring people together to advance their lives. With a local presence in key markets in North America, Europe, and Asia, Monster works for everyone by connecting employers with quality job seekers at all levels and by providing personalized career advice to consumers globally. Through online media sites and services, Monster delivers vast, highly targeted audiences to advertisers.”
Product:Find a job, get career advice, job fair information, education, money matters, Monster Blog. Post your resume and get an agent.
Community Involvement: Involved in a wide variety of community relations both on a local and company wide level.
Helping Hands volunteer recognition program to encourage employees to get involved in the community.
Company: Apache
Year Founded: 1994
Founder(s): Brian Behlendorf, Roy Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert S. Thau and Andrew Wilson
Number of Employees: 151 members and about 1000 committers as of 2005
Headquarters: Incorporated in Delaware. Exist on the web only.
Estimated Revenue: Non-profit/ 05-06 total assets equaled $243,000
Stock Symbol: N/A
Current stock price: N/A
Mission Statement
a. provide a foundation for open, collaborative software development projects by supplying hardware, communication, and business infrastructure;
b. create an independent legal entity to which companies and individuals can donate resources and be assured that those resources will be used for the public benefit;
c. provide a means for individual volunteers to be sheltered from legal suits directed at the Foundation's projects; and,
d. Protect the 'Apache' brand, as applied to its software products, from being abused by other organizations.
Product: Apache HTTP Server,
Open-source software development
Community Involvement: Provide free software as a result of volunteer efforts by developers to create better performing mail servers, databases, web framework, etc. Not just doing a community a service, but anyone in the world who has capabilities to download software.
Oracle Information:
Year Founded: 1977
Founders: Lawerence Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates
Number of Employees: 56,133
Headquarters: 500 Oracle Parkway
Redwood City, CA 94065
Estimated Revenue: $17.02 billion
Stock Symbol: ORCL
Current Stock Price: $18.68
Mission Statement:
Adhering to three principles has saved Oracle more than US$1 billion in operating costs—so far. With these principles, which are incorporated into the design of our software, we have coordinated and streamlined all our business processes worldwide.
Simplify: Speed information delivery with integrated systems and a single database.
Standardize: Reduce cost and maintenance cycles with open, easily available components.
Automate: Improve operational efficiency with technology and best practices.
We believe that our customers get more from their information by using Oracle's software and services and applying these principles. Many have already improved their ability to use information and IT as strategic assets and are now able to share data and processes, measure results for continuous improvement, align stakeholders, and communicate a single truth to all their constituents.
Product: Current leader in software production. Data storage, CRM (Customer Relationship Management), ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning), Integration Platforms, and my.oracle.com
Community Involvement:
The Oracle Community is rich in experience, diverse in background, and buzzing with activity. Regardless of your specific interest, through the resources below you are sure to find peers who are enthusiastic about sharing their experiences and best practices.
NAME: Megan Richmond
Company: Cha Cha
Year Founded: After 2005
Founder(s): Scott A. Jones and Brad Bostic
Number of Employees: Unknown – Several people, nationwide, are ChaCha Search Guides.
Headquarters: Indianapolis (Carmel), Indiana
Estimated Revenue: Not reported Stock Symbol: N/A
Current stock price: N/A
Mission Statement: Deliver hand-picked results by knowledgeable human guides combined with computer-generated search results
Product: Service- Human assisted search engine
Community Involvement: 1) Assist children in reaching full academic potential 2) advance technology to enhance quality of life 3) support education organizations and research institutes to advance technology
My Yearbook
Year Founded: 2005
Founders: Catherine, David, Geoff Cook
Number of Employees: 3
Headquarters: New Jersey
No Stock Information
Mission Statement: myYearbook is the ultimate yearbook -- connecting everyone to everyone like never before, and brimming with things you can't do anywhere else.
Product: Online Yearbook
Community Involvement: It is a social networking for students that is adapting an age varification so that adults cannot pretend to be high school students.
Salesforce.com:
Year Founded: 1999
Founder: Marc Benioff
No. of Employees: 1,304
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Estimated Revenue: $497.1 million
Stock Symbol: CRM
Stock Price: $41.48
Mission Statement: Our mission is to remain the leader in pioneering, evangelizing, and implementing the 1% model and using this model as a means to improve the lives of people around the world. This is the power of us.
Product: services for Customer Relationship management
Community Involvement: salesforce.com foundation
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