Chapter 34 Development

Abundant funds, completely independent management, and huge influence are undoubtedly fatal attractions for a person who aspires to education. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Lowell and Dewey, naturally, will be no exception.

In terms of financial investment, the pearl of Heinz Medical School is in the front, and they all believe in John? Huntelaar's statement that there is no upper limit on capital investment is not a joke, and after a little inquiry, you will know that the Huntelaar consortium must also have this strength. As for not interfering in management, although this point is a little skeptical, but after talking to Osler and others, Lowell and Dewey also chose to believe it for the time being. As for the last word of influence......

Neither Cambridge nor Chicago can clearly compare to New York.

So after a trip to New York, a visit to the Huntelaar Medical College and Elementary School, and a trial of John's villa built for high-end talents, Lowell and Dewey quickly agreed to resign as soon as possible and come to New York to take up their posts!

Everything you see in your eyes is so fascinating.

Needless to say, the primary school for Chinese young students is absolutely unreserved for his little compatriots, except because he doesn't want to destroy their will, so the living conditions such as accommodation are average, and the investment in teaching conditions and other aspects is the top of this era. And the conditions of Heinz Medical School are even better, with more than 100 students, which is a crime in Lowell's opinion - not counting those luxurious stadiums and canteens, but also empty teaching buildings and dormitory buildings, etc., are enough to accommodate thousands of students!

After learning about John's commitment to both schools, the two decided to come to New York.

And before Lowell and Dewey left New York to go back to prepare, they received John at the same time? Mr. Huntelaar's first task: poaching people! Harvard University and the University of Chicago, the former is the first university in the United States, not to mention its strength, and the latter is a university donated by the oil magnate Rockefeller. So John immediately thought of the outstanding talents of these two universities and offered high salaries for the two to poach.

The University of Huntelaar is still on paper and needs too many talents.

After having secured the president of the university and the head of the education department, John began to prepare for the upcoming university. The main problem is funding, which requires funds to poach people, to build new school buildings and teaching buildings, and to purchase a large amount of research and teaching equipment. According to the calculations of John's professional team, if 1900 is the final construction cycle, then according to John's high standards, the total investment may be millions of dollars! In other words, it will cost millions of dollars every year!

If the time had been a few years earlier, John would have been unable to afford it.

Fortunately, with John's net worth now, although one million dollars a year is still huge, it is not very difficult to come up with it. After all, as the economic crisis gradually faded away, the Huntelaar family industry that took the opportunity to eat a hug has finally ushered in a period of ultra-high-speed development!

The fastest growing ones are undoubtedly banks and insurance companies.

As the owner of a bank and an insurance company in Huntelaar, John himself couldn't remember how many similar companies the two companies had swallowed during the economic crisis. In particular, during the two years of the economic crisis, there would be a merger almost every month, and the rate of expansion made John a little frightened. Although the insurance company started late, with the support of abundant funds, the game of big fish eating small fish was very slippery, and it successfully squeezed into the ranks of the four major insurance companies in New York. Now that the economic crisis has passed, the speed of development can be described as flying.

Similar to these two companies are American electric utilities, which continue to expand at a rapid pace. Under Morgan's personal management, American power almost monopolized the entire North American power supply, especially when the Huntelaar Bank was forced to enter with the help of John's major shareholder, large power plants and a huge network of power lines were established, so that the tentacles of American power began to extend to all corners of the North American continent. Then the second industrial revolution was east, and the shareholders all received huge returns from American power companies, so that Morgan tried several times to reduce the shares and influence of the Huntelaar family through financing, but was beaten back by the old Huntelaar method.

At the same time, the production of power equipment is also booming.

With the world's most advanced technology and manufacturing technology, the power generation equipment manufacturing company under the American power company began to supply power equipment to the world, and its competitiveness far exceeded that of European companies such as Siemens at the same time. And when their production capacity was insufficient, John's Huntelaar manufacturing company also received a lot of orders and took the opportunity to develop......

In comparison, the development of pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies and automobile companies is steady.

The raging economic crisis does not seem to have much impact on these three companies, drugs and medical devices are related to people's lives and health, and cars are luxury goods for the rich, so with the development of the market and the enhancement of marketing capabilities, the turnover of the three companies is growing steadily, and the competitors who have emerged have little impact. Of course, the same is true of several of John's partners in Europe, which bring him huge returns every year!

The last company to deliver huge returns every year is Huntelaar Commodity Company.

This was one of John's most surprising properties, as he first "invented" shampoo and soap to please Anna. Later, after cooperating with my father-in-law, I set up a daily necessities company in New York. But what he and old Huntelaar didn't expect was that the daily necessities research department that John founded became the company's perpetual motion machine, and several new products were launched every year! Coupled with John's advanced advertising concepts, he frequently covered a page in major newspapers, so by the end of 1895, the Huntelaar Commodity Company had established factories in more than a dozen cities across the United States, and its turnover exceeded five million US dollars, almost on par with the Procter & Gamble Company at the same time!

Several other small companies have developed much slower.

With the construction of high-rise buildings in the United States in recent years, the development of elevator companies that monopolize almost all patents is okay, but the market capacity is too small after all, so John has not received dividends so far, and all income has been invested in re-research and development. Although Nike and Adidas' products are very popular, there are not many people willing to spend money on their products under the economic crisis, and they can only make a small profit, so John has begun to consider whether to let them enter the ready-to-wear and leather shoes industry. As for the Lego toy company, which has not reduced its shares, the rate of dividend growth has slowed down in the past two years after the creativity in John's mind has gradually decreased......

Other things John values are Motorola Communications, Newport News Shipyard and Carnegie Steel!

Radio and shipbuilding represent the future, John knows better than anyone else. Therefore, whether it is Motorola or the shipyard, John has no idea of giving up or reducing investment, and increases his holdings when he has the opportunity.

The same attitude is also shared by Carnegie Steel.

In any case, this is the century of iron and fire, so John has never thought of reducing his stake in Carnegie Steel, but instead took advantage of the economic crisis to increase his stake to 5 percent, and then used the year-end dividends of Huntelaar Bank and various companies to continue to increase his holdings, which is now 7 percent larger!

This figure even caught the attention of Carnegie.

However, John has positioned himself very clearly, he is just for investment. So in order to appease the somewhat uneasy Carnegie, John personally went to meet the Iron King, and signed a unanimous agreement - under the condition that the Huntelaar family accountants could supervise the whole process, Carnegie himself would exercise the voting rights of these shares on his behalf! The ten-year agreement was a complete relief for Carnegie, especially as the struggle between him and his partner Frick intensified, and John's support was undoubtedly very important to him. So after the agreement was signed, Carnegie even vaguely expressed the hope that John could further increase his stake in the steel company......

Carnegie had no idea that he would sell his company five years later at most.

It was a $500 million deal, and it was another super-mogul, Morgan, who took over. It's just that John, who now has a 7% stake in his hands and will further increase his holdings in the future, will intervene, even he doesn't know...... (To be continued.) )