Apple Inc, By Michael Lev Ram Retrieve On 9 / 21 / 2015

From Hollywood to the the social sector, diversity, rather the lack thereof, has been a topic of conversation. Although many organizations have begun to advocate for diversity, more work must be done. Across the social sector,women and people of color remain severely underrepresented in leadership positions. Organizations must become intentional about creating a diverse workforce and implementing inclusive policies that foster positive work environments. When employees feel represented and included they are happier and more likely to contribute to fulfilling the organization's mission.

The technology portion of their company has grown tremendously which has caused so much of their growth. In addition, they found the perfect formula to appeal to and retain customers. Most of their customers are loyal to their company and insist on sticking to their products. Their market capitalization, $639,922 million, is extremely high compared to other companies in their industry They returned about $8 billion to shareholders during their quarter. Also, their gross margins, currently at 38.01%, are high at passed by

Apple the pursuit of perfect, it also led to the growth of its ups and downs. Jobs not willing to give up work and control anything, especially when it may affect the customer experience. But he was faced with a problem. There is a part of the process he does not control: in a store to

Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff continue their study of what once was a white male power structure of business world in their 2011 book, The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies. In this recent study, the authors explore the broad theme of diversity by studying the seventy-four women and people of color in the chief corporate officer position of Fortune 500 Companies. Zweigenhaft and Domhoff (2011) conclude that small diversity within the top of the corporate body does not signify or translate into an open society oriented on equality of opportunity, education, and income. American society is still greatly circumscribed by class, color, and gender, if have not become even more divided economically than it was before because of diversity as it was implemented by the top corporations (Zweigenhaft & Domhoff, 2011).

Apple Inc. always wants to be in the increase sales non decrease situations. When Apple

Steve Reinemund was the first senior leader at PepsiCo to focus on diversity and inclusion from a perspective of changing the entire culture of PepsiCo. Under Reinemund’s leadership there led to a 38.8% increase of employees that felt the culture of PepsiCo was more inclusive from the impact of inclusion training. One CEO who has contributed to diversity culture is Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo. She is the chief executive officer and has been since 2006, leading this global food and beverage company into being one of the top 50 best companies to work for minorities (Ivancevich, 2011). Nooyi was an India-born woman with a degree from Yale University. As chief executive officer, Nooyi was inspired with the concept of teams of African- Americans professionals. She said in light of diversity that the “African-American established the economic value of diversity

Despite the effort to increase diversity of workforce over recent decades, the number of female and minority executives has remained disproportionately low. (Celia & Antonio, 2007)

Best Foods Company is a multinational worldwide food company whose vision is “To be the Best International Food Company in the World.” (p.713) Best Foods set out to make some serious strides in diversifying their organization. However, there were three key diversity challenges facing them. First is that the company has very few women who have been on the career path that leads them to executive level position. This unfortunately was due to past practices. Best Foods top 150 senior managers were mostly made up of older males predominately white. At the time that Best Foods sought to change there was only one women and she was a general manager. With the lack of skill level and job experience one of the first

Apple Inc. is a global leader in the personal computer and mobile phone industry. The American company operates as a multinational firm, and has helped in adoption of new technology in the industry in the over 200 countries in which it operates. One of the reasons that has helped Apple Inc. (Fortune 500, 2015) to expand its business operations is its compliance with the financial regulations that are adopted for firms of this nature; that is, firms that operate in the international market. For this reason, the company adopts diverse methods to account for its assets, liabilities and shareholder equity. The first method adopted by the company is the balance sheet or the T-method is a two-sided method in which assets are shown on the left

Apple Inc. is a technological corporation that offers personal communication devices and the solutions to the related software,. The products produced by Apple Inc. include; iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Television, iPod, software applications, the iOS and OSX operating systems, iCloud, and many different accessories and the support offerings. Apple Inc. is also a supplier of digital content and applications via the services and support offerings. The products sell across the globe through the retail stores, the online stores, and direct sales force and also through a third part cellular carriers, wholesalers and retailers. Moreover, Apple has also managed its business on the geographic basis of America, Europe and Japan. Every operating segment provides similar hardware and software, and services. The segment of America is made up of the North and the South America. The Europe region is made up of all the European nations and India. The Middle Asia region comprises of Australian nations, and the Asian countries. However, the rest of the organization operates in other regions across the globe. Over the past years, Apple has emerged among the successful corporations and its products have dominated the market attracting consumers from different parts of the works. The products of Apple are also among the most trusted products electronic devices across the world despite the prices of these products on the market. Like any other

Apple Inc based out of Cupertino, California is a highly popular company that partakes in the production of the latest and most innovative technology available to the public. This powerful company was founded in April of 1976 by the jointed-entrepreneurship of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The two well educated engineers began by producing boxes to make long distance phone calls, and evolved their company to what some call, the monopoly of the Cell Phone industry. Starting from a two man team in a garage, Apple has now created enormous job growth and new industries for the further expansion of their products. The products and innovations have created more than 1 million jobs in the United States. This research document will provide significant insight into the sales and profits of this company, using a SWOT Analysis to show the strengths and weaknesses of their new models of IPhones and the profit made.

The first company I invested in was Intel Corporation (INTC). In 1968 the Intel Corporation was founded by Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore. They originally went with the name MN Electronics as “More Noise” but concluded it has a bad connotation on their image and Noise associated with electronics was not what they wanted their image looking like. They eventually moved to Integrated Electronics or Intel for short. The name was great as well as being short for intelligence it fit perfectly. The only problem they had was the name was copyrighted under the company Intelco a hotel chain, they bought the rights for

According to Forbes, Apple is the world 's most valuable brand. Apple has been one of the most important leaders in innovation. Their products and services revolutionized technology and changed the way we interact with others. Although they are a successful company, they certainly have had different failures. This paper will discuss some of Apple’s successes, failures, culture and how Apple’s actions apply to the TCOs.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computers on April 1, 1976 in an obscure location in California. The two young entrepreneurs built the first Apple out of their garage. The first Apple computers did not include a monitor, keyboard, or casing. Despite the company's humble origins, in 1998 Apple reached a benchmark by introducing the Mac OS X operating system, which was the company's first server software. It is interesting to note that the company started differentiating themselves at this time by adding bright colors to the computers casing; a theme that can definitely be seen in today's Apple products. The company also began marketing to younger target markets by providing deep discounts to schools and universities. This also acted to build the levels of product loyalty that can be seen today in more mature market segments.

The phone starts ringing, we 're going to pick it up and when we touch it, the ringer volume smartly goes down! Yes! Today a company like Apple could make this kind of cellphone. To complicate the landscape, the smartphone is not the only device at stake; tablets and eBook readers are emerging as key components of the mobile universe. Apple is a big company with several products and services that provide along with products. Each product has its own market. It is possible to use multiple factors and combine related statistics for analyzing a company with different product.