Many Courtrooms, Numerous Achievements: Friedman’s Intellectual Currency

Harvard Law School graduate Theodore H. Friedman garnered the attention of the larger legal community as a personal injury lawyer appearing in the United States Supreme Court, which led to a 10-year tenure with leading law firm Phillips Nizer. Friedman then founded his own firm, where he managed a wealth of civil and commercial cases including defense of the estate of superstar Jimi Hendrix. Other notable achievements include the representation of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and the actor George C. Scott. He often secured multi-million dollar victories and mention in publications including the New York Times, the New York Journal, and the U.S. Journal. Additionally, Friedman served as trial and appellate counsel in a number of influential cases concerning ship owner’s negligence and consequent seamen injury, landlord liability, and the taxing of personal injury awards.

Called by Retired Supreme Court Justice Donald Sullivan “…one of the best, if not the best, personal injury trial lawyers in New York City,” Friedman held 25-year membership with the Inner Circle Advocates, the group of the top 100 trial lawyers in the country. Over an expansive career, he held teaching positions at prestigious institutions including Columbia Law School and University of Oxford.

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Maroc Telecom: Shaping the Telecom Industry Landscape in Morocco

Maroc Telecom is the leading telecom company in Morocco. It is responsible for shaping the landscape and history of the telecom industry there. The modern telecom infrastructure in Morocco is inseparable with Maroc Telecom.

Maroc Telecom is committed to provide its growing client base with the widest range of telecom products and services. Serving both residential and commercial customers, Maroc Telecom offers tailor-fit solutions that meet communication needs and increase efficiency.

Marco Telecom is known in Morocco as Ittisalat Al Maghrib or IAM. In order for the brand to be recognized internationally, the company adopted the name Maroc Telecom. Its roots date back to 1891 when King Hassan I established the first postal service in Morocco.

From the postal service, Morocco moved to telephony in 1967. When the telecommunications decree was passed, Maroc Telecom was established in 1998. The company was privatized on February 20, 2001 when the Moroccan government sold its interest in Maroc Telecom to Vivendi, a French broadcast company.

Henkel: Passion for Excellence and Sustainability

Henkel is a worldwide leader in industrial and consumer products. Among its most popular brands are Loctite, Schwarzkopf and Persil. Since its founding in 1876, Henkel has positioned itself to lead the industry.

Based in Düsseldorf, Germany, Henkel employs 47,000 wokers worldwide. Henkel is considered as one of the most internally-aligned German companies in the world. The company operates three core businesses namely, Adhesive Technologies, Beauty Care, and Home Care.

Henkel’s Adhesive Technologies is a world leader in sealants, adhesives and surface treatments used for industrial, craftsmen and consumer markets. Its adhesives and sealants are used in multitude of applications in a wide range of target groups. In 2011, Adhesive Technologies contributed about 50% of Henkel revenues, amounting to €7,746 million.

Beauty Care has its products distributed worldwide. Its most popular brand, Schwarzkopf & Henkel, is one of the best in the world in oral hygiene, skin care, toiletries, hair styling and hair care products, and hair colorants. Schwarzkopf professional, on the other hand, leads the world in providing salon products. Beauty Care has generated revenues of €3,399 million in 2011, representing 22% of Henkel’s total sales that year.

Home Care is perhaps one of the most important segments of Henkel. Henkel started in the business with this segment. Among the primary products of Home Care are household cleaners and laundry soaps, majority of which are heavy duty detergent soaps and other special detergents. In 2011, Home Care sales were reported at €4,304 million for 27% of Henkel’s 2011 revenues.

Henkel has special focus in sustainable development. For instance in 1958, Henkel’s research led to the development of low-foam soap. This is the company’s response to the German Detergents Act of 1961 which aimed to deal with the problem of mountains of foam in lakes and rivers.

Henkel was one of the founders of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, showing its commitment to sustainability. Then in 2003, the company participated in the United Nations Global Compact and expressed its commitment to The Ten Principles that deal with corruption, environment, labor and human rights issues.

Syngenta: Bringing Plant Potential to Life

Syngenta AG is a Swiss agri-business company that provides seeds and pesticides. Its R&D projects are focused on biotech and genomic researches. The company leads the world in crop protection.

Syngenta was established in 2000 when Novartis Agribusiness and Zeneca Agrochemicals merged. Both parent-companies have older roots. Novartis was formerly known as Sandoz Laboratories. Zeneca Agrochemicals was a part of the AstraZeneca group.

Among the products of Syngenta are pesticides (which includes selective and non-selective herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and other professional products), seeds (which include field crops, vegetables and flowers). The field crops produced by Syngenta include hybrid seeds and genetically engineered seeds. When the Swiss government banned genetically engineered organisms in 2005, Syngenta was one of the most expressive of its opposition to the ban.

Syngenta established the Syngenta Foundation to work with communities in rural areas. Its major goal is to help the people in these communities improve their lives.

Zoomlion: Global Benchmark Heavy Machinery Company

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Development Co. Ltd. is a manufacturer of advanced technologies used in infrastructure constructions. Zoomlion is a public company listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Since the company’s founding in 1992, Zoomlion has maintained its annual growth rate of 65% to become the world’s fastest growing construction equipment enterprise. Zoomlion also has the most complete product lines of construction machineries – 13 categories with 86 series, for more than 800 varieties of products.

Zoomlion has a capitalization of RMB 7 billion. Its sub-operations contributed RMB 85 billion in revenues in 2011 with tax payments amounting RMB 12 billon. These achievements placed Zoomlion 7^th in the world in the construction equipment industry.

Research is at the forefront of everything Zoomlion does. It continuously pushes forward with reforms. The company is responsible for institutionalizing a mechanism with the principle “research supporting the industry and the industry financing the research”. The principle became a model for all the state-owned enterprises in their restructuring. Its expansions were fueled by acquisitions and reorganizations through the company’s active participation in many state-owned reforms, transformations and reorganizations so that new mechanisms and technologies may be implemented in the old enterprise. Zoomlion was able to achieve both social and economic benefits that made the company a benchmark for the reformation of state-owned enterprise.

The company is the proud owner of over 2,400 local and over 200 international patents. Among the most notable projects that Zoomlion has undertaken are the Large Mobile Cranes Research and Industrial Development, the Hoisting Truck Safety Monitoring and Early Warning Applications Development, and the Construction Machinery Electrical Systems Electromagnetic Compatibility Key Technologies Research. Zoomlion has over thirty other local and international science and technology projects.

Zoomlion is the first Chinese engineering machinery company to integrate overseas resources into the industry. It has adopted a capital leverage that integrates excellent quality assets on a worldwide scale which resulted in rapid international expansions and built a global manufacturing, marketing and service network. Zoomlion has had nine local and international acquisitions and mergers.

New Manifestations of Success

When Google initially established, it served as an avenue to better navigate the ever-proliferating landscape of the Internet. It quickly beat out other search engines with a method that proved intuitive and efficient and helped people shape their online activities into more efficient uses of time. Today, the super corporation remains the go-to for search, but its imagination and ingenuity expanded into other markets, as well.

As Managing Director of Agency Development in North America with Google, seasoned new media professional Torrence Boone assist the firm in maintaining its reputation for innovation in all things net. He oversees a team that works alongside creative agencies to produce campaigns and products that render the formerly traditional realm of advertising interactive and client-specific. Boone maintains relationships with firms throughout the continent as they continuously conduct research to better understand their audience and executive campaigns to connect with them. As a leader in this regard, he embraces the relationship between the Internet and marketing and, ultimately, a niche that undergoes near-constant shifts in definition.

Boone commands a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He embarked on his professional path as a Manager with Bain & Company in Boston, where he employed skill in mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategies, and creative consultancy campaigns. Torrence Boone later acted as Vice President and General Manager of Avenue A (now Razorfish), a client services venture in New York City; President of digital media firm Digitas Boston; and CEO of Enfatico, an international agency responsible for the marketing needs of corporations including Dell. Through the celebration of evolving media and a passion for communications, Torrence Broome secured a reputation as one the industry’s noted leaders.

LeGrand: Creating Electrical System Solutions that Make Modern Life Better

LeGrand is an industrial group that leads the world in the production of electrical installation systems and information networks. In 2011, this French company led the world in switches and sockets with a global market share of 20%, and cable management with a global market share f 15%. Seventy-five percent of LeGrand’s revenues are contributed by international operations.

The roots of LeGrand can be traced to a porcelain workshop located in Limoges, France. Originally, the company was founded to produce porcelain dishes. In 1904, Frédéric Legrand took over the company and gave it a new name.

Legrand partnered with a Limoges-based artisan named Jean Mondot in 1919. The partnership started producing electrical switches made of woodbox and porcelain.

Later, LeGrand diversified to electrical equipment production. At that time, porcelain was the best electrical insulation material because plastics were not yet available.

A fire broke into the LeGrand factory. After the company recovered from the fire, the company began to concentrate on producing electrical switches and sockets. New products were also produced such as circuit breakers and fuse holders. Cable management products were also produced, along emergency lighting systems.

LeGrand had 120 acquisitions 150,000 product lines, 70 bases, and operations n 180 countries.