Industry Biographies Samples For Students

Lloyd Augustus Hall

Lloyd Augustus Hall’s contribution to science largely involves food preservation. Lloyd’s interest in food chemistry, a new area of chemistry, started while working at Boher Chemical Laboratory. Before his inventions, table salt (sodium chloride) was used as the major food preservative especially in preserving meat (Wilson and Jane, 34). However, table salt was not effective enough, as meat could only be preserved in a short period using this technique. Following various experiments, Lloyd came up with “flash-drying” technique as an alternative to table salt preservation. The technique involved a combination of sodium nitrate crystals and nitrite and sodium chloride, which ...

Biography of Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Mikhail Baryshnikov was born in 1948, in a place called Riga. In 1960, he started his ballet studies in the same place. He is a co founder of White Oak Project and a dance director. Mikhail Baryshnikov won a top prize in the junior division at a very tender age, an achievement that brought him into the lime light. He was named the ‘the most perfect dancer’ in Pushkin class, a characteristics that many others had not fitted in, in the history of that school. His unique talent and skills were noted right from then as his performance in dance industry was exclusive. ...

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Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa is regarded as one of the world’s adored frontrunners in total quality control. He is recognized for his prodigious and exceptional contribution to total quality management (TQM) that has shaped quality management up-to-date. Ishikawa used his educational background, philosophies, and ideas to help companies and the overall management industry in producing quality products and services at reduced costs. His work has been highly awarded through prestigious prices and recognition from industrial and educational related organizations. This work focuses on Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa’s biography especially his life, work, philosophy, significant accomplishments, and his contribution and ...

Lena Horne was one of the most significant jazz and pop musicians of the 20th century. Her influence on music and popular culture is immense, having broken many social and entertainment barriers in order to achieve her goals. Her body of work stretches nearly seven decades, performing from the 1930s into the 2000s. She was an incredible singer, songwriter, dancer, civil rights activist and actress, who left an indelible impression on the music industry and society as a whole. In this essay, her life and career will be examined, as well as the importance of her civil rights activism and ...

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The journey to being enterprising is not easy. It involves a lot of effort from the entrepreneur (Justin). This report focuses on two entrepreneurs in the same industry. It investigates their background of each of the entrepreneurs so as to be able to determine the success factors in their life. Besides, it gives a comparison and a contrast of these entrepreneurs and above all the obstacles that they had to overcome before achieving their success.

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Willard Marriott

John Willard Marriott the founder of the Marriott Corporation was an entrepreneur in the hospitality industry. He is an American born who was raised like a ...

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The quest for understanding is perhaps most apparent when it comes to the assessment of entrepreneurs and the effects of their workings in the world of business. Entrepreneurship is a practical activity that is acquired either through entrepreneurship genes or through learning/acquiring specific behavioral traits that can enable individuals to become active in entrepreneurship (Strategic Direction, 2011). One of the most influential persons in the world of entrepreneurship is Carlos Slim Helu, who owns varied properties ranging from telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, banking, and insurance. According to Forbes Business Magazine, Carlos Slim Helu is the richest man in the world with a ...

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Quality control refers to the policies and procedures a company institutes in order to ensure that its products or services are the best possible available, comply with external and internal standards, government regulations, and to decrease or eliminate any problem, errors or issues that might occur in the production or enjoyment of the goods or service. Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa was one of the first persons to advocate for company-wide/total quality control, or the integration of quality control practices in every facet of the company’s business model. In addition, Dr. Ishikawa was the father of the Japanese ...

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This paper will critically analyze and review the biography of the American entrepreneur, Steve Jobs a founder of Apple and its CEO until his death in 2011. Steve Jobs is known for having two separate spells with Apple – first as its founder in 1976 and secondly, as a visionary leader who turned the company around in 1997 when it was under serious crisis. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a review and assessment of how the company was founded and ran and how it became successful under Steve Jobs. This will include the examination of the situation ...

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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” Steve Jobs

Who can ever forget that mercurial genius and co-founder of ‘apple,’ and who branded Macintosh as ‘the computer for the rest of us’? None today, toddlers included, can escape the impression left behind the man, who left us grieving the loss of, not an individual, but a person who could have given us more. Apple has revolutionized ...

Women have long been suppressed and prevented to hold higher office or positions since the ancient times. There were suppositions that women are not politically savvy or capable of handling responsibility outside the home, let alone have a voice in society. Some societies even restricted women from becoming educated to suppress their desire to fight for their rights. However, as the years progressed, societies around the globe slowly became divided in how they treat their female constituents. Jamaica, for instance, had been open to women empowerment but they still held certain reservations on allowing to dominate in the political arena. ...

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During early 1990s, when I was born, China was experiencing radical change in its economy. The world in general was at the time going through a catastrophic economic crisis that devalued nearly all the currencies of the world. China was still developing, and there were numerous companies and industries thriving in the favorable economic climate before the depression. Newspaper reports and articles were on this period recalling over the past few months. They highlighted on how businesses and companies throughout the country were falling and losing millions. Appropriate measures were constantly adopted, and retrenchment was common in the country. Companies, ...