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Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Manhattan Institute The Manhattan Institute, founded by William Casey, who later became President Reagan's CIA director, besides subsidies from a number of large conservative foundations has gained funding from such corporate sources as: The Chase Manhattan Bank, Citicorp, Time Warner, Procter & Gamble and State Farm Insurance, as well as the Lilly Endowment and philantropic arms of American Express, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CIGNA and Merrill Lynch. Boosted by major firms, the Manhattan Institute budget reached US$ 5 million a year by the early 1990s. browse Report: Fact and opinion construction(think tanks)     Think Tanks  ... -3   History of Corporate Funding of Conservative Think Tanks -2   Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Brookings Institution -1   Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Cato Institute 0   Examples of Mainly Corporate Funded Think Tanks: Manhattan Institute +1   Corporate Money and Politics +2   Influence of Corporate Funding on Think Tank Activities +3   The Microsoft Case      ... Advertising, Public Relations and Think Tanks  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  IBM IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) manufactures and develops cumputer hardware equipment, application and sysem software, and related equipment. IBM produced the first PC (Personal Computer), and its decision to make Microsoft DOS the standard operating system initiated Microsoft's rise to global dominance in PC software. Business indicators: 1999 Sales: $ 86,548 (+ 7,2 % from 1998) Market capitalization: $ 181 bn Employees: approx. 291,000 Corporate website: www.ibm.com http://www.ibm.com/