Polls show that Americans resent corporate excesses, but value corporations as sources of jobs; that they are worried about the deficit but also frightened about unemployment; and that they are fearful of losing their health coverage but also anxious about the Obama version of health reform.
"And in the end, people will once again value corporations for the good they do".
Nineteen of the country's top 20 business schools now use Training the Street to teach an estimated 20,000 business majors every year in how to interpret financial statements, value corporations and run spreadsheet analyses.
Economic analysis has been the traditional tool to value corporations in the accounting field, where financial statements reflecting the economic affairs of the corporation are available.
That is, they value corporations over people.
WHAT does it take to be the chairman and chief executive of the most highly valued corporation in America?
For Jeffrey R. Immelt, who was named the next chairman and chief executive of the General Electric Company yesterday, that task will be even harder, as he will follow John F. Welch Jr., who has led G.E. for nearly two decades and built it into the most highly valued corporation in the nation.
Keiji Tachikawa, president of NTT Docomo, Japan's largest mobile-phone service company (and now its most highly valued corporation), predicts 360 million communications units in Japan within a few years.
The company had not only soared in value to become the seventh highest valued corporation in America, but was almost universally praised and revered as a model company in the modern American economy.
- from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) To uphold Star Trek's exemplary values, corporations must take a new approach to research and development.
Merton H. Miller, a Nobel award winner in economics whose passionate belief in free markets helped him to develop what are now widely recognized guidelines for valuing corporations, died on Saturday at his home in Chicago.
