Company Article Reviews Samples For Students

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CONCLUSION
Recent studies have shown that for the past decades, Seminole Industries had its share of success and failures. The company experienced its economic downfall in 2008 after reducing its factory orders from 8% in 2009 to 11% in 2010. With these losses, the company had to step up and take necessary measures to change its organizational structure in order to meet the ever-changing demands of globalization and become more competitive. Although the company was able to develop modern data center facilities to cater to the needs of their clients, it is unfortunate that the company was not able Continue reading...

A review of Contact Energy Limited: startup history, funding, market growth and failure, operations and globalization of the energy market in New Zealand.

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(Revised on 14th April 2014)

CONTACT ENERGY LIMITED

Contact energy limited is an incorporated and a diversified company that generates and sells electricity in New Zealand. The company is one of the biggest electric generators in New Zealand with up to 23% of retail generation as of 2012. Contact started as part of the division of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand in late 1996 (Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, 2). It became publicly listed in the year Continue reading...

Business Process Reengineering at Seminole Industries

A person’s success in life isn't based on his ability to simply change. It is based on his ability to change faster than his competition, customers and business [1]. It is a known fact that many large companies have lost their businesses and have had to shut down owing to the notion that technology would alienate their customers. If we are to take the case of Seminole Industries, the global economic downfall of 2008 had hit the company hard, with reduction in factory orders from 8% in 2009 to 11% in 2010. These trends cannot be considered in Continue reading...

General Motors (GM) has a new CEO - Mary Barra. She has joined the multinational at a time when it is facing a crisis for selling cars with faulty ignition for a decade, which has resulted in accidents and deaths. Considering there is a global outcry, she must save the reputation of the firm by addressing the ignition problem. This will be crucial for her legacy as a leader. To remedy the situation, Barra accepts responsibility on behalf of GM instead of blaming her predecessors. She also appoints a global vice-president to deal specifically with safety issues and pledges Continue reading...

Introduction

People engage themselves into employment in order to get compensation in monetary terms, and other benefits that come along with employment. Every organization aims at employing the most qualified employees creating a stiff competition in the corporate world. In addition, any employee would like to achieve higher levels of qualification in their careers in order to attract the attention of best paying companies. Human resource management is a global recognized part necessary in running of any organization. Compensation forms one of the most essential human resource tools used by companies in an effort to manage their employees. Compensation system Continue reading...

Japanese company Toyota Motor Corporation recalled 6.4 million vehicles worldwide in efforts for quality control. It is according to an article from the Wall Street Journal by Hiroyuki Kachi. Twenty seven models were recalled in this big blow to the company’s quality control. This event happened after it was discovered that there were defects in some of the Toyota Models. The defects include problems with the steering wheel, air bags, peddlers, and the engine starters (Kachi). Two vehicles in Japan caught fire due to defects on the airbags. The business strategy of the company to report, and recall Continue reading...

Article Summary

The two largest companies in Telecommunication industry are Mexican telecommunications and television broadcasting. These two companies dominate the Mexico City media industry, therefore, exercising monopoly. It is because of the monopoly powers with the two companies that have resulted to increase in cost of doing business in Mexico. They are have set high prices thus limiting investment, and holding back the penetration of new technologies (Malkin 6).
According to International Telecommunication Union, only 26 percent of the Mexican households have access to the Internet compared to 45 percent in Brazil. The course of the monopoly in the market is Continue reading...

With the growth in social media websites including; Facebook and Twitter, companies have moved to these platforms in promoting themselves. Most of the customers for many companies are active users of these social networking websites; therefore, it is cost effective for them to market themselves through this medium. Advertising on social media platforms allows organizations to reach a broader market at a very low cost. It allows for promotions to be embedded in the customer’s minds by constantly updating their Facebook or Twitter pages. However, companies that are selling complex products or products for old people would not Continue reading...

The increasing popularity of Cloud Services among small, medium and large enterprises has paved way for the increasing number of companies offering cloud services especially those related to customer relationship management. This has been proven to be beneficial for these companies since they are able to do away with the purchase of necessary hardware and software needed to put up such information systems plus the required maintenance. With CRM Cloud Services, these would not be needed while the software can just be customized to attune to the needs of the organization.
As of December 31, 2013, Salesforce.com dominates the Continue reading...

Sarbanes-Oxley Act is an act by the United States congress in 2002 aim at protecting investors through corporate disclosures accuracy and reliability. It mandated strict reforms aimed at improving financial disclosures and possibly prevent accounting fraud. The scandals of early 2000s such as Tycoon, WorldCom and Enron predicated the enacted of SOX. These scandals shook investor confidence, and an overhaul of regulatory standards was required. The SOX Act outlined rules as well as enforcement policies, which amended or supplemented existing legislation. There are two key provisions of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act which are section 302 and section 404. Section Continue reading...

The implementation of a new system to replace an old system is not always the answer to an organization’s inefficient business operations. However, there have been several instances where migration from old legacy systems to ERP systems proved to be beneficial to companies. Summer Electric Light can be considered as one of the future beneficiaries of an ERP system if the development is studied and implemented properly.
In terms of operational efficiency, the new ERP system can improve this a lot. In the old legacy system, two systems have to be used and the data from these two Continue reading...

Introduction

There has been a considerable shift in market approaches traditionally utilized by various international as well as local companies to what is now being referred to as high-end marketing. This has arisen due to a variety of factors including but not limited to competition, increased innovation, and technological changes in overall marketing and changing consumer preferences and / or needs. These changes, along with others, have made some companies face stiff competition to a point of even forming partnerships with new and innovation-based companies. Globally established companies like Coca Cola and PepsiCo have already set themselves up and geared Continue reading...

On January 7, 2014 was broadcasted the documentary film of Frontline “Catch a trader” which investigates the problem of insider trading. In the film are included interviews with FBI agents and journalists about the results of their ten years long investigation of SAC Capital advisors L.P. who realized huge profits. It was founded by Steven A. Cohen in 1992. The Firm employed about thousand people, and had many offices around the world. Steven A. Cohen was a legend in Wall Street. The Firm developed successful investment strategies for their clients based on reliable information. Turney Duff, a former trader Continue reading...

Article Summary

The article sheds light on how large corporations such as Enron and WorldCom have been involved in malpractices related to the way these corporations were run. Both Enron and WorldCom were guilty of ignoring the demands of the stakeholders. Therefore, there is a strong need for major changes in the way such corporations are run, and for environmental and social factors to be kept in mind. One way of pleasing all parties is through a process called Socially Responsible Investing or SRI. SRI does not mean that businesses ignore the financial side of things and safeguard social and environmental Continue reading...

Complexity science is the investigation of complex adjustable frameworks, "the numerous patterns of relationships inside them, how they are supported, how they self-compose, and how results develop" (Zimmerman 2001). Complex adjustable frameworks are densely joined networks of co-operating agents who acclimate by changing their principles, and subsequently their conduct, as they increase experience. Specialists have been creating multifaceted nature based public health and health care administration devices, and methods drawing on a bigger literature of many-sided quality based organizational administration hypothesis.
Complexity science is still in its early stages, and is multi-faceted, reflecting distinctive roads of study. The avenue Continue reading...

ARTICLE REVIEW

This article deals with an important topic in finance. The article is related to increase in earnings for Australian companies and how this affects the sentiments of investors ,which in turn affect the value of the stock index. The major finding of this article is that ASX 200 index , that is an index made up of the 200 of the biggest companies in Australia by market capitalization has increased in value.
The major sectors which have experienced increased in earnings are the resource sector and the banking sector. Specifically amongst the resource sector Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, both Continue reading...

Apple Company has realized the fact that tablets are the new driver of its growth in the current market patterns. The company noted that tablets have become the second largest income source by injecting close to 26 billion dollars in 2013. Hence, the company has moved on to devise concrete marketing approaches to ensure that the tablet would become a stronger revenue contributor for the organization. The majority of technology companies have put more emphasis on smart phones rather than on tablets. This situation has led to a decline in the overall prices of tablets and hence this is Continue reading...

Article Review

The key message of the article is that the continued use of internet for social purposes during work hours has negative effects on people’s concentration at workplaces. According to the author, though internet has become an essential tool for carrying out research and other functions such as emailing, in most cases internet slows peoples’ ability to work optimally because workers who have access to internet end up visiting social sites and performing personal tasks. Because of technology and internet, most people have lost their desire for information and have acquired considerable desire for social connection.
Further, the article Continue reading...

Article Review

This article titled “4 Principles of marketing in the digital age” was written by Greg Satell and appeared in the Forbes magazine on the 16th of April 2013. It gives pointers to marketers on how to cope with the ever changing face of marketing especially in the digital age.
The second principle is “Use Innovation Teams to Identify, Evaluate and Activate Emerging Opportunities”. This principle will enable marketers to tap into new potential and stay ahead of the competition through taking advantage of new opportunities. Greg, however, advices companies to first test all innovations that come their way before Continue reading...

Introduction

The case is about the development issues related with the new real estate project named Downtown. It was not having very good reputation among the citizens nearby the construction site, which was the reason behind the worry of top management of the Downtown Dayton Partnership firm. Now company was seeking a plan to take an action on to it. The company had an strategy to make the property more user friendly by eliminating the problems existed in the project. Now the top management of the Partnership firm wanted to have a vision for the downtown project to make it Continue reading...

The article reported on the upward trend in health spending growth in 2011. In 2011, per capita and total spending on health care increased. For instance, between 2010 and 2011 estimated per capita expenditure for claims filed under employer-sponsored health insurance rose up to 4.6 percent (Roehrig, 2011). Based on age group, health spending increased significantly for children reaching 7.7 percent increase over 2010. Based on the region the HCCI report indicates that the Northeast had both the highest dollars spent per capita and the highest growth in spending. According to the producer price index, Medicare prices increased by Continue reading...

CEW – Current Event Write-Ups

Status of Gold Market in US
Gold is one of the precious metals in the world and it got a price hike of more than four percent in last 28 days, which happened due to increase of Chinese buyers’ interest in gold. One of the largest substantially supported gold exchange traded fund in the world known as SPDR Gold Trust had reported its seven weeks high growth in the sales of gold reason behind substantial increase in the prices too. Although the same fund has not seen any growth in the month of December and January but saw a Continue reading...

Wells Fargo & Co. is one of the largest mortgage lenders in the nation. The company plans to ease the rules on mortgages. One of the main rules that the company will adjust is to lower the credit score for mortgages that are eligible for government support. This is a clear indication that the standards related to mortgage-lending will ease. Franklin Codel asserts that the bank will purchase loans that have Federal Housing Administration backing with credit score of 600. The main aim of this adjustment is to increase the level of credit (Timiraos “Well Fargo Plans to ease Some Continue reading...

The amount of Indian opium that was reaching Canton increased simultaneously right after the abolition of British east Indians company’s monopoly in China trade in the year 1834. It is estimated that over sixteen thousands chest of Malwa and Bengali opium with a dollar value of seventeen million three hundred and eighty eight thousands six hundred and twenty two in the early nineteenth century, were brought into China illegally through importation.
Originally, opium was classified as a medicine qualities being stimulant. It was known to monitor over secretions and control harmful effects of noxious vapours. It was a Continue reading...

Critical Review

Thesis
This is a critical review on research paper Case Studies on Successful M&A Practices in Acer & Lenovo: A Dynamic Capabilities Perspective. The first section of this paper will discuss the purpose, rationale and related literature of this research paper. The second section will discuss the research methodology and design used in this paper. The final section will discuss the main findings and the implication related to this study.

Introduction

Historical information shows that about 70% of the M&A (merger & acquisitions) have led to value destruction and only 30% of the M&A lead to value creation. This case of empirical Continue reading...

A summary

The report “A Bigger World: A Special Report on Globalization” offers a substantive review on various issues aligned with globalization. In fact, the report offers substantive insights on the economic implications of globalization. Worth noting is the fact that in the past globalization had a different meaning, whereby it was often used to mean expansion of business from the developed nations to the less developed ones. However, things have taken another turn in the recent past whereby, the emerging economies have evolved into equal competitors with the developed nations. As result, economies from both developed and less developed nations Continue reading...

The relevant stakeholders described in the articles is composed of the corporations such as Newmont Mining and the other companies involved in the mining operations. However, the most affected and considerably the important stakeholders in the case are the residents of the communities near the Yanacocha mine, and town of Choropampa. Peru’s mining history was shrouded with allegations of environmental negligence due to the issues of mercury spill that affected the nearby areas of Newmont mining site. What makes the corporations involved as stakeholders is that the company has the highest business interest in the issue given that Continue reading...

Companies in the world are tirelessly working day and night to see that people can get better and improved batteries that are convenient to use and carry around as they carry out their daily tasks. When this breakthrough is eventually achieved, people will find themselves using devices which are not using the ordinary batteries, but instead they (the devices) will power themselves with either energy from the air, cellular, TV or Wi-Fi signals.
The major drive to the development of the battery has been for the companies to meet customer needs by making sure that the customers get the Continue reading...

In any business, the major battleground is financial accounting, and there is no government or industry regulation that can prevent unethical ways that people use in dishonestly reporting given financial information (Duska, 2007). For example, there are certain accounting practices that are illegal like misinterpretation of figures and expenses on a company’s financial statement. However, some legal accounting practices are unethical (for example, influencing financial results by shifting expenses unjustifiably).
Arthur Andersen LLP is a good example of a company that violated accounting ethics. This accounting firm would have become one of the largest firms in the USA Continue reading...

This commentary provides a summarized description of the film and media historical milestones through to the Second World War. Multiple changes have occurred in the area of film since the invention of the motion pictures in the 1890s. Moreover, the techniques and effects used in the first film production companies have been modified over the years to come up with the recent technologies.
The development of the motion pictures technology in the late 18th century was cemented by the extensive experiments carried out around 1893. The experiments resulted to public demonstration on the use of kinetoscope. On the other Continue reading...

Introduction

Supply chain management is a term that is very common in many businesses enterprises. It is a term that has been subjected to a variety of definition but in its simplest form, supply chain management is a management philosophy whereby manufacturers or service providers utilize various integration and partnership efforts with suppliers to reduce the cost and improve quality and delivery timing. Terms such as integrated logistics, supplier integration, integrated purchasing strategy, supply chain management, value chain management, Just-In –Time (JIT) logistics, supply chain synchronization and lean production are some terms that are often mentioned alongside supply chain management. Continue reading...

A survey on America’s best companies in the book In Search for Excellence identified the best managed and also the “unexcellent” companies. The survey came up with two results that were striking. One, there was evident reversion in the mean whereby the growth and lucrativeness of the best companies did slow down after long time periods. Secondly, the “unexcellent” companies outperformed the S&P 500 by over 12%. In the 1988- 1992 period, there was a domination by reversion in the price/ earnings and price to book ratios (Clayman, 1994). Large capitalization stocks vividly outdid the smaller capitalization stocks. Continue reading...

What is the Story about?

The new marketing story is about that marketing strategy employed by a single firm, Apple Inc. The new in the article does not center on the wider implications of the telecommunications market even though there are mentions of other market players within the industry. The company is launching a new product into the market; the iPhone 6 ready to be sold to any willing buyers in the market. As part of the marketing campaign adopted by the company, the company is lowering prices for the consumers who buy the old iPhone 5S device online to help finish current stock Continue reading...

Introduction

The Ghomeshi’s case has affected the image and credibility of CBC radio. While the case has is under the authorities, the Board needs to take some measures to avoid any negative consequences y that the company may suffer from. The Board needs to ensure that there a strong internal control, but be cognizant of the fact that Ghomeshi has a right to privacy. While investigating the case further, the must avoid instances where Ghomeshi’s private information maybe leaked to the media. The internal investigations as stated in the press release must be professional and legal. This will Continue reading...

Where Auditors Fear to Tread Article Review

In the article Where Auditors Fear to Tread, Paul M. Clikeman brings to light the issue of earnings management. Clikeman argues that earnings management should be classified in the same category as fraud because both earnings management and fraud have one thing in common: misrepresenting the organization’s financial performance. Clikeman goes further to allege that the flexibility within GAAP (General Accepted Accounting Principles) allows this subtle form of fraud to take place. He further asserts that this unethical practice is either ignored or even encouraged.
The article also gives some of the reasons as to why managers may Continue reading...

Michael J. Moore (2014) in his article “Morgan Stanley to Award More Bonuses Up Front,” reports of the intention of the Morgan Stanly giving more bonuses upfront a clear indication of the growing profitability of the company. The author begins with a summary of the price chart showing the evident increase for the recent past. Such is a good way of summarizing and catching the attention of the readers. It is worth noting that the chart is very effective since one can know the prices by placing the pointer of a computer at any part of the graph line. Continue reading...

This article discusses the emerging issues in the growth and development of corporate social responsibility. It starts by discussing various drivers of to corporate social responsibility. Ideally, business attitudes and its relationship are slowly changing with time due changes in the business environment. As a result, changes in business environments such as technological, political, economic, social, cultural and legal environments are influencing the business behaviours and the way to handle problems. This is to mean that there is great need for corporates to adopt changes in their social responsibility. In addition, social corporate environment is also ensured by focusing Continue reading...

The article provides in-depth information on Egypt’s effort to reinforce its accounting and International financial reporting standards (IFRS) over the last twenty years. Egypt’s decision to liberalize its economy has indeed created more benefits for the country and this has allowed it to become a dynamic market economy incorporating both the private sector as well as the global economy. Subsequently, the Economic liberalization enabled the reactivation of the securities exchange market and the establishment of a privatization program. As a result, Egypt sought to integrate the International Financial Reporting Standards in order to enhance the efficiency and Continue reading...

The Capitalist Culture

Culture is the most active element that charges the human civilization to further branched out and cut across all the aspect of life such as technology. In the capitalist world, there is a great desire towards the novel and original. This continuous search for novelty and change surpasses the extent of proportions of actual change that has occurred in the society. Further, this cultural desire is already being legitimized, such that the society accepts the role to see the culture as a norm and a moral tradition where the emerging new culture could be sized up and be critically Continue reading...

Review of “Industrial and Commercial Training”

The study indicates that 21% of the companies with at least 500 workers prefer providing online learning opportunities for their workers. The paper expresses that the human resources managements, in general, are still suspicious about the efficiency of online learning programs for the workers. Only 30% of the companies those provide online learning opportunities for their workers express that they have received positive results from the online learning programs, and the rest of the companies indicate that they need relatively more time to make a certain decision whether the online learning programs have positive results (Kirkup, 2014).
The paper Continue reading...