Most interesting company you could do a report on?

[mchammer]

The late great DEC.

 

[imported_Pablo]

LG.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: mchammer
The late great DEC.

Or Commodore

 

[mchammer]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: mchammer
The late great DEC.

Or Commodore

Alpha EV8>*

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
DuPont, though maybe not for an econ class - maybe sociology of the family or sociology of American business. The DuPont family's connections in America from the early 1800s through now are incredible, and fascinating, in my opinion.

Agreed. If you want an interesting report you'd have a hard time doing better than this company.

 

[amol]

Another vote for Google

 

[compuwiz1]

 

[imported_Mike]

your own?

 

[QuitBanningMe]

Any brothel or a drug cartel

 

[HombrePequeno]

Originally posted by: Pablo
LG.

Samsung would be another interesting one...although they try to keep their business practices pretty secret.

 

[HyTekJosh]

Originally posted by: desteffy
GE

qft

 

[mwmorph]

Mci Worldcom. some good controversies and coverups there from a company whose servers route most of the traffic on the internet.

 

[sciencewhiz]

netflix

 

[cliftonite]

vivid

 

[akubi]

morgan stanley will give you plenty to write about.. considering the recent developments

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

goatse INC

 

[Cal166]

FleshLight

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
DuPont, though maybe not for an econ class - maybe sociology of the family or sociology of American business. The DuPont family's connections in America from the early 1800s through now are incredible, and fascinating, in my opinion.

I work for DuPont in Canada, but only as a summer student. My dad has been working for their Engineering Polymers division for damn near 30 years now...

I was going to say that DuPont was the most BORING company to do a report on. Sure, it's highly, highly diversified (They make Nylon(Actually, Invista does that now), Kevlar, Butacite, Teflon, Fluorochemicals, pesticides, household and automotive paint, dozens of different types of plastics, and also a lot of imaging stuff...) and they ship all over the world (Trust me, I've been updating the customer database, and there are literally tens of thousands of companies)....

If you want to do a report on a company that's anal retentive on safety, DuPont is a good one to pick.

 

[daniel1113]

Brown Forman

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
I have to do a presentation on a company for microecon, need advice/suggestions on the most interesting company. This can be from any industry for the most part...

I'm sure someone will cover Microsoft, Dell, etc., but everyone knows what they do. I'm looking for some random company that has something interesting to talk about.

Any ideas?

In 1995 I did my econ report on AMD. A small little semiconductor company out of texas

At the time I think I had a Cyrix PR200 processor in my computer. What a POS that was.