The Haymarket Riot was a conflict between anarchists, who supported Chicago’s workers, and business owners, who supported the police.

The most costly storm in U.S. history, Katrina devastated the economy of the Gulf Coast in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama and caused massive damage to New Orleans in particular.

The how-to-succeed genre became an increasingly important and lucrative segment of the book publishing industry from the twentieth into the twenty-first century.

Although the official mission of the Department of Housing and Urban Development is to help people find adequate housing and oversee the development of urban areas, it has evolved into the federal agency most helpful to the banking, real estate, and construction industries in the United States.

The lodging industry grew dramatically with the development of national railroad and highway systems, the emergence of a middle class with sufficient leisure time and disposable income to travel, and an increase in business travel.

Until the early twentieth century, horses were Americans’ primary means of transport for goods and services and enabled commerce to take place over a wider geographical area.

A strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Homestead Steel Works Company turned violent when Pinkerton agents and the state militia were sent to break the strike.

The Homestead Act encouraged the development of small family farms as important components of agricultural commerce in the still undeveloped American territories.

A major part of the mission of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is to enable commerce to take place freely.

As television expanded into specialized cable networks during the late 1970’s media boom, the Home Shopping Network pioneered the concept of electronic commerce byoffering viewers the opportunity to call in live and purchase a wide variety of quality items—predominantly fashion, beauty care accessories, jewelry, electronics, and domestic wares.

Hoffa revived the American labor movement but also became symbolic of corrupt union leadership. Head of the Teamsters union, he worked closely with members of organized crime.

During the early twentieth century, a growing automotive industry demanded better roads, which in turn resulted in enormous increases in the production of motor vehicles.

Health care has become an important business, and contributions for workers’ medical insurance are a major expense for many firms.

Hawaii’s incorporation into the United States meant that businesses on the mainland could rely on a steady supply of low-cost sugar and profit from an expanded free-trade zone for investment and trade.

Hamilton, as the first secretary of the Treasury, helped establish a national economy with durable structures.

The term human resources has two different meanings. It may refer to the people within an organization who are performing the work or it may refer to the human resources (HR) function—a collection of related activities that pertain to the management of personnel within the organization. It is the second reference that is being discussed here.

A holding company is a CORPORATION that owns other companies or corporations. Holding companies typically own stock in or otherwise exercise managerial control over the companies they own; their controlling interest is usually at least 50 percent.

Hofstede’s dimensions refer to a well-known study of five dimensions of international cultural differences in workrelated values. The five dimensions, first published in 1980, include uncertainty avoidance, power distance, masculinity-femininity, individualism-collectivism, and Confucian dynamism.

The Herfindahl Index, also referred to as the Herfindahl- Hirschman Index, is a measure of MARKET CONCENTRATION, the degree to which a few firms control the pricing and output in a market. In perfectly competitive markets there are many firms, and no one firm is large enough to influence the market outcome.

Hedging is any business and INVESTMENT activity entered into to reduce RISK rather than to produce earnings. For example, a farmer makes a decision on how much wheat to plant. At the current price of wheat, he will make a good PROFIT, and if the price of wheat rises, it will be especially profitable, but if the price falls, it will be unprofitable.

A hedge fund in the United States is a private PARTNERSHIP that engages in a variety of high-risk INVESTMENT strategies for PROFIT. Investors should not think that a hedge fund provides them with protection against risk; in fact the opposite is true.

A health maintenance organization (HMO) provides comprehensive health care to its members on the basis of a prepaid CONTRACT. HMOs function both as INSURANCE companies, collecting periodic premium payments; and as health-care providers, contracting with doctors and hospitals to provide services at predetermined rates. As such the HMO is an example of managed care, the goal of which is high-quality medical care at a reasonable cost.