Essays on Pixar

Introduction

Growth is a primary objective of any organization as it ensures that a company is progressing. There are various growth strategies, and one of these strategies is the acquisition and merger strategies. It is an important strategy that takes tremendous amounts of critical thinking and analysis before the decision is made. The strategy is also a repositioning technique that a company can use in strategically placing itself and its products at a strategic position in the market that promises better profits. All in all, it is a means through which companies can use to maximize their profits provided the ...

Steve Jobs

The book “Steve Jobs” was written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon & Schuster in 2011. In spite of the presence of a large number of pages, i.e. 630 pages, the book tells the entire story of Steve Jobs, one of the most popular technological figures in history, at a torrid pace. Walter Isaacson is an American journalist and writer. He is working as CEO of the Aspen Institute, a Washington D. C. based organization related to nonpartisan education and policy. He has also worked as the Managing Editor of Time (magazine). He is also the author of biographies ...

I. Introduction The Incredibles is a 2004 Superhero computer animation film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was based on comic books and spy films from the director Brad Bird’s childhood. It tells the story of a superhero family forced to hide within society and try to blend in. Led by an altruistic father, they end up in a battle with the antagonist of the story, Syndrome, who appears at first as Mr. Incredible’s number one fan. The overall theme of the movie revolves around unity and family as being the two ...

This paper offers the summary of the article about Disney Company and its achievements through the nineteenth century. Fundamentally, Disney Company productions is best known for production of animated films and entertainment in the 20th Century, having been founded by Walt Disney. Initially, the founder, Disney, began an occupation in animation with a company situated in Kansas City. With another close person Lwerks, a talented animator, Disney established another Films studio within the same city in 1922, where they produced which began to involve itself in the production series of cartoon films, about fairy tales. Notably, Alice in Cartoon ...

Inside Out: A Film Review in the Age of the Internet

Many people view watching movies as a form of leisure or pastime. However, there is a whole field of arts and studies dedicated solely in filmmaking. Likewise, many effects, techniques, and visuals are employed by directors and filmmakers not only to heighten the experience of the audience watching the film, but also to add a layer of depth and complexity in the film that is consistent with its overall theme. The end result of these techniques is a film that incorporates a meaningful plot with visually aesthetic features that make the process of movie-making an experience by itself. Because ...

Everybody knows that the ubiquitous nature of the Internet, the richness true-to-life images, and convenient ways to connect to mass media is here to stay. When Steve Jobs died five years ago, whom many considered the genius and driving force behind Apple, haunting shockwaves of disbelief reverberated worldwide. In his Los Angeles Times article of October 5, 2011, Hiltzik wrote “His legacies include making the human factor,” in terms of the look and feel of computerized communications devices, “an indispensable element of consumer electronics design, refining the distribution and display of digital content” to a level which pushed the ...

French Cuisine

In a world, where there are so many cuisines, there are dishes that even with such a rich variety of flavors and cooking methods are considered exotic. According to Bhatia, ten most exotic foods from around the world include Carzu Marzu on the first place of the list, Monkey Brains on the second and Live Cobra Heart on the third. To try or at least order these dishes you need to be an absolute Braveheart because Carzu Marzu, which is an Italian dish, is a type of sheep milk cheese, which has “live insect larvae” in it, that are ...

Introduction

Typing the terms leadership and management in popular search engines would yield thousands of results. The truth is, in terms of availability of sources and literatures, the topic of leadership and management is one of the most heavily saturated. There are a lot of books and articles that have been published about it. Yet despite that, only a small percentage of startups and aspiring business owners are being successful. Creativity Inc. is a book that discusses the story of how the company Pixar managed to make it big in the world of animation .

Discussions and Analysis

Pixar’s Distinctive Competence For starters, ...

The majority or papers that study creativity is concentrated on an individual and his or her personal creative potential. A person is in the center of the creative process because it is his or her talent and potential that brings success to a company. However, the impact of the surrounding environment is also significant. Regardless of the field where a company is operating, be it marketing, production of innovative devices, or governmental services, creativity is an integral part of work aimed at satisfying customers’ needs. However, taking into account modern conditions under which business should operate, it is important ...

Mergers and Acquisition

Introduction Merging and Acquisition of business is the act of two or many companies forming a partnership between themselves through consolidation of funds. The units that they use in the business organization are combined to serve as a single entity. This strategy is adopted by the organizations to enhance the competitiveness advantage in the market share by companies. Therefore, the stocks, shares and the equities associated with the businesses that are joining are looked upon as a single entity. The result by the organizations is the ability to achieve specific synergies in the business such that, the benefits are ...

Walt Disney is a company which has had the fortune to stay as amongst the most recognized brands throughout the world. Their business strategy has been simple -- focus on the making Disney a family brand, and grow exponentially in every aspect of the media and entertainment industry. Hence, the company began in the line of expanding their business vertically, thereby becoming a self sustained company and brand all over the world. To begin with, the company started with being an animation picture producing company. As its characters, Mickey Mouse and others grew famous and began to be recognized ...

This case study is about Genentech which was founded in 1976 with a mission of discovering, developing, manufacturing and commercializing life enhancing and lifesaving medicines for patients with unmet needs. It has become one of the leading biotechnology company known for its development and commercialization of new bio-therapeutic products. Genentech has been recognized as one of the best companies to work with in US due to their proactive approach to developing and operating programs that support their employees. The company has invested in extensive programs that promote a safe and healthy workplace as well as healthy lifestyles for their employees. One ...

The name Steve Jobs symbolizes advancement in technology and the greatest achievements in innovation and business management. Born on the 24th of February 1955 at Green Bay, Wisconsin, Steven Paul Jobs lived for 56 years and presented the characteristics of a genius all his life (Hunter 6). He was the man behind one of the world’s most successful electronics, computers and, software company, Apple Inc. which was initially called Apple Computer, Inc. He was also in the founding and leadership of the famous computer animation studio; Pixar as well as NeXT Computers (Imbimbo 90-94).

In terms of success, ...

Introduction

Doris Lessing regards science fiction as one of the best social fiction of the time. Pixar’s “WALL-E” is a beautiful product that has been developed over the same theme and have successfully earned the liking of general audience without much effort. The movie presents an interesting idea of the outlook of science and humanity. The elements together are depicted alive and vigilant to fight for the safety of mother Earth. In short, the movie presents the notion of association of inhabitants towards a unified goal. The analysis of the movie clearly determines that Wall-E is a Film about True Connection. ...

Animation is not truthful; in fact it can be summed up as a deceptive way of entertaining people. This is so because it is generally a rapid sequence of purely still images put together in order to give an illusion of movement. It is a human creation that can even be seen as a trick that eyes play on an individual but gets some form of interpretation in the human mind. It is important to understand it from this perspective otherwise comparing and contrasting American animation and Japanese animation also known as anime will not make sense at all. Both of them are ...

Introduction

The Walt Disney Company is an example of an organization which is in true sense a globalized company with consumers all over the world. The fascination that Disney draws is second to none and since 1929 it has been on a magical journey of movies, cartoons, theme parks, hotel to name a few. Walt Disney has been omnipresent, accessories; toys and clothing are also one way in being a constant presence. The culture at Disney is built on imagination, innovation and good business decisions in tune with the changing winds of times (The Walt Disney Company, 2014). Walt Disney is one of ...

English

“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 ...

Management

Management Steve Jobs is widely regarded as one of the world's most influential leaders. Certainly, the way Steve Jobs became the driving force behind Apple Inc's success, and with it, impacted the technological world, does not have any equal. While it would be fair to say that the leadership style that Steve Jobs adopted was not, perhaps, to everybody's liking, there is little doubting the fact that without Steve, the world would be much worse off. Born on the 24th of February 1955 in Los Altos California, Steve Jobs had an eye for technology ever since he ...

Abstract

Animation in simple words means to give life, and the job of an animator is precisely that, to give life to static image or objects. Computer animation has traveled a long way, and today, the computer animation artists enjoy complete freedom to draw, model and animate objects in those infinite digital landscapes. The purpose of the essay is to look at the history of animation, and how it all started with simple drawings. The increasing sophistication and the realism of 3-D animation only reflect the never-ending possibilities of computer technology and the exponential processing power of a computer. With the ...

In his lifetime, Steve Jobs made an unparalleled impact as the entrepreneurial and driven inventor of the iPhone and the Macintosh and co-founder of Apple, Inc. Jobs would later underscore that, unlike his predecessor in Apple, he was not as much driven to make profit as to create products that are game-changers. Born Steven Paul Jobs on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California under extraordinary circumstances to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption, Jobs showed early signs of his intelligence and innovativeness at a young age. In the popular biography Jobs commissioned, ...

Introduction

This paper aims to propose a discussion on science fiction movies and presents comparative analysis on two science fiction movies ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Wall-E’. Both these movies have entertained audiences and made them acquainted with various innovative ideas of future world. There are various differences, as well as similarities in both these movies and both of them depict a glimpse of the world that is influenced heavily by the science. ‘Blade Runner’ is a granular science fiction that may have various differences with the movie Wall-E but on the basis of genre of both these movies, this paper proposes to analyze how ...

Introduction

Every sphere of the corporate world has seen the integration through Merger and Acquisition. Merger and Acquisition (M&A) usually take place when two or more corporate entities join together their operations, either in part or full. The factors which play a large role behind such an activity include the relative size of the participating companies, their collective share in the market of operation, the ownership and control of individual partner after the combining of the business.

Merger and Acquisitions in Entertainment and Media Industry

As already mentioned before, Merger and Acquisition, are widely occurring phenomenon, encompassing every sphere of corporate activity. Thus, the field of Media and entertainment ...

Organization Assessment Report

Organization Assessment Report Apple Inc. is probably the most known company in the manufacture of technological products; it has a cutting edge and produces something that everybody desires to have in their possession. The company incorporated in 1976 was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976. The company’s headquarters is in Cupertino, California. The company originally started at the bottom of a garage as opposed to an expensive business location as many would think. It is this historical background of the company that amazes people in terms of their brands and ...

Introduction

Apple has witnessed a change in leadership after the demise of its CEO Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs was a transformational leader who influenced and inspired both employees as well as the general public by means of his vision and charismatic personality (Galloway, 2013). A transformational leader is one who leads by means of intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, individual consideration and idealized influence.

Leadership style of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was the founder of Apple and then he was ousted from the company when he went on to form Pixar Animation Studios. Pixar Animation Studios garnered huge profits and was subsequently acquired by Walt Disney Studies in a ...

Introduction

In these modern times, businesses are poised to go global and international as competition becomes fiercer in the market. Regardless of the industry one is engaged in, the likelihood of having the rival company already planning and actually opening their own satellite offices in another location is present. If a company does not even consider it as an option, then the company already loses its opportunity for growth, expansion, and marketability. Usually, companies recognize that the domestic or local market is too small considering that the audience and users for products and services is limited. This very fact is what ...

Disney is a diversified American multinational mass media corporation. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923 by Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. Disney. The company is best known for the production of cartoons, animations and recently a movie Pirate of the Caribbean Sea. In 2006 Disney under the CEO Bob Iger, came up with hit movie cars that generated $462 million worldwide. Then he created Hanna Montana, High school musicals and the Disney princesses. Bob Iger introductions have broadened Disney’s opportunities in the following ways; the creation of Cars franchise helps in cracking tween boy market which ...

The term appropriation is a technique used to describe a character that is taken from its environment and placed in another unfamiliar environment without any significant changed done to them. The book blood and guts is about a young Mexican girl Jenny, who leaves her home town of Merida in search of a new life in the United States. During her former years in Mexico, she has a sexual relationship with her father who she considers to be many things including her spouse. In the period following her affair with her father, he starts losing interest in her after he starts getting interest in ...

MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

INTRODUCTION Gaining competitive advantage by leverage information technology and information systems is a critical concept for organization. Baltzan and Phillips define competitive advantage as a product or service that an organization’s customers value more highly than similar offerings from its competitors’. This implies the products, services and capabilities that an organization has while the competitor’s do not have. Competitive advantage are temporary as competing organizations seeks ways to duplicate the competitive advantage. In order to lead in competition, organizations have to continually develop strategies. This paper describes the procedures in which organizations can analyze, identify, and develop competitive ...

The film, Wall-E (2008), directed by Andrew Stanton is set in post-apocalyptic earth where the human civilization can survive no more. Owing to the pollution of the environment, life is now dead on the planet which was once home to gazillion of living creatures. The human beings, the most advanced species of living creatures which resided on the planet have taken refuge in a huge spaceship. Wall-E, the protagonist of the film, is a robot who has the onus on his shoulders to scan the planet and clear up the waste which has accumulated all over. Wall-E falls in love with ...

The Wall Street Journal versus The Financial Times

The Wall Street Journal versus The Financial Times On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, the former CEO of the Apple Corporation, died at age 56. Given Jobs’ persona as a prominent business leader, two business media organizations, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) and The Financial Times (FT) were prime contributors to the media coverage of this event. This paper will compare and contrast the coverage from these two sources of media, one based in the United States, the other based in the United Kingdom. First, the two coverage collections will be analyzed as to the types of articles produced, ...

Steve Jobs was an American-Arab inventor and entrepreneur who changed the way computers interact with human beings. Born in 1955, Jobs co-founded Apple together with Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Up to his death in 2011, he is termed as the charismatic pioneer of personal computer revolution. Job’s computer revolution began in 1985 when after realizing the potentials of Xerox PARCs mouse driven GUI went ahead and created Apple Lisa. Later on after one year Macintosh was created. He played an instrumental role in the introduction of the LaserWriter printer in the market. The personal computer revolution of ...

Introduction

Robotics is the science or branch of technology that studies the design and construction of machines that are able of doing tasks, done by the human being or that require the use of some level of intelligence. In most cases robots are design in order to do some level of automation of a process or in other cases they are built in order to simulate human behavior; this last one situation is been one of the most longed achievement of modern science. Robotics is one of the fields where the human most have put effort on during the past ...

For André Bazin, the famous film critic and theorist from France, cinemas were a realist medium. This is why majority of film theorists would perhaps argue that that if he got a look at the computer-animated film WALL·E (2008) by Disney/Pixar, he would turn over in his grave. His theories revolved around the notion that there is always a mummy complex underlying the origin of any form of art, including cinema. Bazin’s notion suggests that art struggles to immortalize the mortal, to preserve the physical existence on screen. According to Bazin, the medium that eliminates most of the distance between ...

Introduction

Acquisitions and mergers are an increasingly rapid means by which organizations use as an efficient and quick manner to diversity, expand and foray into new markets. Mergers and acquisitions are a manner in which firms make economies of scale, acquire new competencies, spread risk and globalize to dominate already existing markets and enter new markets (Verma & Verma, 2011).

Take the instance of the merger between Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney. It is one of the rare instances where the merger between two organizations has helped both firm to survive in the global market. Previous movies of Pixar were released ...

John Q. Student

Augusta State University Today, the name Steve Jobs probably passes as one of the most recognizable, especially among the youth. Taking the world to a new dimension of a line of gadgets, Steve Jobs made sure that Apple made its mark. The iPod, iPhone, iPad, and all other things that he created have become common words used in a household. However, despite all the success he has achieved with his life (eventually leading to his death last year) and despite being the genius that he is, he has faced many challenges and roadblocks, as well. In this discussion, Jobs’ life and ...

Steve Jobs - What a biography of the iGenius says

Academic brilliance matters in life. So does dedication and hard work. But something which differentiates the great men from the good ones is a resilient and perceptive vision. When we talk of vision or insight, one name emerges without delay- Steve Jobs. The man did not invent the techniques pertaining to integrated circuitry, flash memory or touchscreen but employed those very technologies and much more from his own expertise to build something exceptionally expedient and fascinating. The man who always stimulated others to follow their dreams and not the clichéd paths is one of the most inspirational personalities ever. ...

Every child in the world from all generations can recognize the most popular mice in the world that is Mickey Mouse whenever they can him. He is the product of one of the most diversified entertainment company Walt Disney. The company and its subsidiaries have five major business segments namely Parks and Resorts, Media Networks, Studio Entertainment, Interactive Media and Consumer Products. The company also shares effective ownership in its major business ventures in major cities around the world ranging from 15 to 51% (Google Finance). The Walt Disney Company is currently headquartered on South Burbank Street in California ...

Introduction

A merger involves joining two companies to form one new company. On the other hand, an acquisition is the term referring to when one company buys or takes over another company. In acquisitions, no new company is formed. Therefore, mergers and acquisitions are simply consolidation of firms. Most of the past mergers and acquisitions have ended up unsuccessful. This is not solely because one single problem, the failures arise from different factors such as the strategies adopted by the firms or an unfavorable business environment. This has led to most scholars and business analysts such as Porte, Lorenz and ...

Management

Pixar Animation Studio has been categorized as an advancing small business. It is a computer animation studio that is located in California, United States. Pixar’s competitive advantage is based on its effectiveness in the operations management which includes improvement of the external and the internal systems, technologies and resource that deliver and create the company’s services and products. The far reaching coordination of Pixar management and its employees has greatly contributed to the success of the firm and this has been the reason as to why the company has continued to be listed among the 100 best small ...

THE REPUTATION OF PIXAR COMPANY

Pixar Company is the most influential company in the animated films industry. This has mostly been attributed to the acquisition of the company by the late Steve Jobs. This acquisition led the company to become the producer of the highest numbers of the most appealing and financially successful films in the animated film industry. Pixar’s influence has also stemmed from their introduction of RenderMan, a breakthrough computer software that was used to produce computer-generated animation effects. This software became the industry standard and was used by most of the other studios. Other studios could however not make Pixar-quality images ...

Pixar’s Tin Toy (1988) is a paradigm of a short-form film that illustrates breakthrough, genuine emotions, and completeness of essential film qualities.

When all other movies were accustomed to using the traditional form, Tin Toy opened the door to modern film art, a fledgling form in 1988 that ultimately become the inspiration of today’s animated movies. History noted that the film was a successful experiment of an animated work rendered on a computer. While it may be considered an antique creation, watching this masterpiece in our time is a fresh breath from long form films. The movie also reminds viewers of one art ...

The given text was delivered by Steve Jobs while addressing students of Stanford University in the year June, 2005. Steve Jobs is a well known person and does not require any introduction. He is CEO and founder of the Apple computers. Apple is very renowned name in the field of technology and famous for continuous innovations. The speaker was one of the best entrepreneurs in the world hence he was expected to tell the students what made him so big. He disclosed how he became a well-known name for everyone in very short span of time. While addressing students he detailed out ...

Introduction

There are many different definitions of leadership, but most of them state the same core idea. According to the website www.nwlink.com ''Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent''.

In her article called Leadership, Susan Ward states that the leader is the inspiration and director of the action. He is the person in the group that possesses the combination of personality and leadership skills that makes others want to follow his direction. (Ward, n.d., para. 3)

Ward also explained that leadership is ...

Press Release

Steven P. Jobs Passes Away at 56 CUPERTINO, California – October 5, 2011 – Steven P. Jobs, who co-founded and served as the chief executive officer of Apple, has died at the age of 56. We at Apple are deeply saddened to announce his passing. Steve's brilliance, drive and devotion brought too many innovations into the world to name here, and all of them have brought richness to our lives. Steve leaves the world a significantly better place behind him. In August, Steve had left the position of chief executive officer, transitioning to chairman of the company because he ...

Executive Summary

This paper posts tat leaders make a difference in one organization. It tries to prove its point by sowing how leader make a difference in an organization and by how they affect the organizations by their own innate skills, personalities and their experiences. It tries to define leadership by the unique traits and skills a leader has.

The paper initially answers the question by asserting the importance of a leader in an organization. It illustrated its point through the examples such as the leadership of Steve Jobs and how e made a difference in Pixar.

Then it explores the various definitions of leadership and ...