17-05-2003 20:47									#61
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first one on my mind was IBM..

	17-05-2003 20:49									#62
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quote: Originally posted by Sten Sture (edit: Bell Labs is now in the Lucent group iirc) Ford was just an efficient manufacturerer of a product ...

Yeah, that's true about Bell Labs.

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. )

	18-05-2003 02:48									#63
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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.

	18-05-2003 03:02									#64
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT And why?

The first one.

	18-05-2003 03:47									#65
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quote: Bah. Changing the way people live? Small potatoes! Proper corporations control the fates of entire countries. Like United Fruit.

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.

Guatemala and Honduras are chump change compared to America Japan and Europe

	18-05-2003 04:21									#66
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The Bilderberg Group.

Not quite a corporation... but definitely the most influential.

	18-05-2003 04:30									#67
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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.