Founder Article Reviews Samples For Students

Gregory P Levine is a distinguished scholar for his masterly work in analyzing the historical events in Japan. He wrote an article “Switching Sites and Identities: The Founder's Statue at the Buddhist Temple Korin'in” which he describes a Japanese portrait statue made during the seventeenth century. The statue displays the monk Shokei Jofu that is found the Zen Buddhist temple Korin’in in Kyoto. The statue had inscriptions, which are significant for historical analysis by those of interest. Levine based his interest on the inscriptions and the order of temples site with the portrait as he carried out his research. He ...

TOMS Shoes LLC was profit oriented company and transformed into a social kind of enterprise. It sells products for profit and, at the same time, donates another kind of product needed by the poor in the country. Its website defines the company as a “One-for-One Company” and uses the slogan “With every product you purchase, TOMS will help a person in need. One for One.” Although the company had from the outset wanted to help people improve their lives through its products, TOMS did not actually achieve that and ended up operating purely for profits. The author reflected on ...

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 ...

Introduction

In the competitive business environment, business must employ strategies that will ensure its survival and relevance in the market. The business must make sure its products reach all its consumers both rich and poor in the society. Additionally, it must assess the market to evaluate how its previous strategies have position the business in the market and check whether to employ a new strategy or not. Thus, if the previous strategies have not brought any significant improvement of the business in the market, then it would be wise to change tactics of doing business. One of the strategies a business can ...

An Article by Frances X. Frei

Summary-The article explores the different ways to make a service business robust and profitable. The service sector involves the increased interactions with the customers, so it offers challenges that are different from the product sectors. As per the author, the success of a service provider depends heavily on the choice of the targeted customers and the alignment of all resources to serve them better. The articles stresses that, to succeed in the service business, the focus is needed on the four major areas: (1) the offering, (2) the funding mechanism, (3) the employee management system, and (4) the customer ...

Wal-Mart and Dell: A Match You Can

1. Why was Michael Dell the ideal person to change the corporate culture to become more competitive?
Competition has been the order of the day in many industries and companies have been forced to develop strategies of survival. Failure to do this in most instances may result in the dropping of the market share and the consequent reduction of profitability of any company. This situation is depicted in this scenario where Dell has lost its market share to Hewlett-Placard in PC and computer-related products. To salvage the situation, Michael Dell, the founder of the company becomes the perfect ...