American Business History.

Haymarket Riot

Sergey Tokarev — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:47:58 -0500

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

Hurricane Katrina

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:13:05 -0600

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.

Howard Hughes

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 05:04:52 -0600

Through much of the twentieth century, Hughes was the embodiment of the American businessman as a larger-than-life adventurer: half-hero and half-outlaw.

How-to-succeed books

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:55:14 -0600

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.

US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:33:34 -0600

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.

Hotel and motel industry

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:20:31 -0600

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.

Horses

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:07:47 -0600

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.

Homestead strike

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:55:44 -0600

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.

Homestead Act of 1862

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:48:13 -0600

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

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:41:05 -0600

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

Home Shopping Network (HSN)

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:28:58 -0600

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.

Jimmy Hoffa

Sergey Tokarev — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:18:02 -0600

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.

Highways

Sergey Tokarev — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:28:17 -0600

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.

HealthSouth scandal

Sergey Tokarev — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:57:24 -0600

Health care industry

Sergey Tokarev — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:32:25 -0600

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

Hawaii annexation

Sergey Tokarev — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:00:12 -0600

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.

Alexander Hamilton

Sergey Tokarev — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:10:59 -0600

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

Human resources

Sergey Tokarev — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:18:46 -0600

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.

Holding company

Sergey Tokarev — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:16:45 -0600

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

Sergey Tokarev — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:15:09 -0600

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.

Herfindahl Index (Herfindahl-Hirschman Index)

Sergey Tokarev — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:12:21 -0600

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

Sergey Tokarev — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:09:52 -0600

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.

Hedge fund

Sergey Tokarev — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:07:51 -0600

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.

Health maintenance organization

Sergey Tokarev — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:02:54 -0600

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.