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This 6 page paper discusses AT&T: its history, mission, operating area, products, organizational structure, management, philosophy and leadership style. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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organization, management philosophy and leadership style. Discussion The company history tells us that the organization began in 1875, "in an arrangement among inventory Alexander Graham Bell and the two men,
Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, who agreed to finance his work" (A Brief history: Origins, 2005). Bell was trying to invent a machine he called a "talking telegraph"; in other
words, a telephone (A Brief history: Origins, 2005). He succeeded, and the telephone was patented in 1876 and 1877; in 1877, the three men formed Bell Telephone Company "to exploit
the invention" and in 1878, the first telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut (A Brief history: Origins, 2005). The new invention caught on, and within three years, "telephone
exchanges existed in most major cities and towns in the United States, operating under licenses from what was now the American Bell Telephone Company" (A Brief history: Origins, 2005). In
1882, Bell "acquired a controlling interest in the Western Electric Company, which became its manufacturing unit" (A Brief history: Origins, 2005). Over time, Bell acquired "most of its own licensees"
and gradually became known as the Bell System (A Brief history: Origins, 2005). AT&T incorporated in March 3, 1885 "as a wholly owned subsidiary of American Bell, chartered to build
and operate the original long distance telephone network" (A Brief history: Origins, 2005). It began in New York, reached Chicago in 1892, and finally San Francisco in 1915 (A Brief
history: Origins, 2005). Finally, on December 30, 1899, "AT&T acquired the assets of American Bell, and became the parent company of the Bell System" (A Brief history: Origins, 2005).
The companys mission statement says: "We aspire to be the most admired and valuable company in the world. Our goal is to enrich our customers personal lives and to make
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