Google It!
With the staggering success of Google, Inc. in the past couple of years, one must assume that it takes a stellar managing force, filled with commitment, dedication, and superiority of its finance, accounting, marketing, and other business counterparts. On November 17, 2005, Google, Inc. surpassed $400 per-share in the stock market, something unforeseen in its beginning stages of development. Today, competitors loom only in the hopes to sell any of their services or ideas to Google in order to receive some of the seemingly incredible profit opportunity by being linked with dot com giant, Google. The strong force of management behind Google, Inc. has lead it to become a giant in today's technology world; the doors are wide open for Google to advance into a technological realm that is untouchable by the company's competitors, but where the company decides to go is yet to be known.
In the October 3, 2005 edition of BusinessWeek magazine, an article was featured on Marissa Mayer, who began a career with Google, Inc. in early 1999. The article detailed her position of managing the ideas behind the powerful dot-com search engine. Mayer turned down a teaching position at Carnegie Mellon University, in order to begin a career with Google, Inc. She did this without clearly knowing the success that Google would have in the coming years.
Mayer began with Google in early 1999, when the company only had roughly twenty employees. Although at the time she began her position inside Google Inc., Mayer claimed a title as one of the company's programmers, she now reins the director of consumer Web products, and "?belies her power and influence as a champion of innovation" ("Managing Google's Idea Factory"). It i ...