Business Biographies Samples For Students

Biography on Steve Israel, a U.S. Representative for New York
Steve Israel is a member of the U.S House of Representatives from the Third Congressional District of New York since 2001. Steve is a true leader. He values education. He respects the middle class and the low-income group. Even in the worst situations, Steve always raised his voice and stood up for his people. He has sponsored and co-sponsored numerous bills and voted in favor of several reforms that benefit the public to a great extent. He has been in power since 2001 and never misled his people. He introduced acts and ...

Steve Jobs ones said,

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and everyone should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.
These words struck my mind the moment I read them. Since then, Steve Jobs the world most famous business genius and innovator became my inspiration and role model in many ways. His success story led me to get on a business path and keeps motivating me on a ...

Greetings:

Allan Walker is one of the most successful sole proprietors in Sigel town. He owns a Car wash that has grown from a very small shade where cars would get washed, to a big place where people can take their cars to be washed and sit back and have a drink of a bite as they wait for the car to be finished washing. He says that he got the idea of starting a car was in Sigel after one day, as was idling around, and he noticed how there are very many people in Sigel who own cars. In fact, every house hold owns ...

The Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk (VIBS)

Abstract
The Victims Information Bureau of Suffolk (VIBS) was established in 1976 with the core mandate being the aiding of victims of domestic violence or sexual abuse. Accordingly, VIBS has been dispensing its duties with the organization assuming an expansionary approach. VIBS has, however, not failed in its activities. It continues to offer humanitarian services. This is despite the financial challenges that it faces. However, even with the society being seemingly educated and informed, it is this paper’s contention that the organizational activities aimed at creating a state of awareness and empowering the victims are critical. In addition, ...

My name is NAME from Saudi Arabia, Jeddah. I have a bachelor degree in sociology from the University of King Abdul-Aziz and have a Pre- MBA from the University of New Brunswick Saint John. I am currently working hard to finish at UNB, where I still have two modules to left to complete my MBA.
I do not have a lot of work experience now, as I have only worked at King Abdul Aziz hospital as a social work intern. My internship with the hospital gave me the opportunity to horn my experience as a social worker in a hospital setting. As earlier stated ...

Maria Teresa Barros is an interdisciplinary individual with wide-ranged expertise in the fields of real estate, escrow closings, mortgage lending, and business consultancy and development. As a high achiever, she has pursued varied endeavors that enabled immersion to cross-cultural backgrounds. She is highly proficient in communicating in both Spanish and English. Concurrently, her prolific travels in other countries make her knowledgeable in other languages such as Arabic, French, and Hindi. These multilingual skills are considered core competencies in catering to the services required of clientele within the Orlando, Florida area and diverse customers globally.
Maria Teresa is currently the ...

Helen Marie Gurley was born on 18th February, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas. In her childhood, she lived in Little Rock until when her father died from an elevator accident (Alex). Therefore, she was raised by her mother who also had a tough time raising her sister who at that time had polio (Jennifer 15). Both Helen’s parents were professionally teachers. In the 1930s, the family moved to Los Angeles, at least where Helen got her education and passed with flying colours. She later managed to secure a place to learn a business degree course in Woodbury Business College (Scanlon 23).
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Abstract

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 ...

Adolf Dassler’s life in Germany

Born in 1900, in Bavarian mill town, in the Germany, Adolf “Adi” Dassler founded the Germany sportswear firm known as Adidas. While he was in his teenage years, he learnt how to make sport shoes immediately he returned from the First World War. However, his initial occupation was baking pastries (Berger, 2008). Luckily, his father gave him support after he secured a job in shoes producing factory; he advised him on various ways through which he could design quality footwear. Additionally, his own experience in athletics, advice from medical practitioners, and coaches of various games advised him on the best ...

Benjamin Franklin observed his life as a blessing from God. This is concerning the fact that he rose from the life of a poor child to the height of being recognized by the world as one of the key makers of history. It is in this regard that he asserts that he rose from poverty and obscurity to affluence and a state of reputation. (Franklin, B. 1906, pp 34) It is for this reason that he asserts that given a chance to relive his life he would gladly accept the offer. However, being no chance available he opted to have a relief in writing ...

Biography:

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 ...

What if Edmund Burke were alive today? London and Washington D.C. are bound together in so many ways whatever his modern views might be he would be an influence on the politics of both countries. Would he still be the conscience of morality for conservatives? In this essay we will look for insight to his moral and political perspective on the East India Trading Company and the French Revolution.
We neither think of the modern American ‘celebrity’ conservatives as having empathy for workers nor as being particularly fiscally responsible. Maybe that is why Edmund Burke’s reputation as ...

Abstract

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 ...

Introduction

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 ...

Introduction

I am a twenty one years old white man who has been raised in a middle class family. My parents were wealthy when compared to most families within the region. I was brought up in a family of four; me being the last born. My siblings are: Amanda (31), John (29), and Josh (26). The trend and the age differences between my siblings is a sure proof that I was born out of accident. My mother conceived out of will and they did not have an option but to bring me up. Also, I have been hearing hearsays from ...

My name is Monique, a resident of southern California. I am a psychologist by profession, having majored in industrial and organizational psychology. My interest in understanding human behavior motivated me to pursue a master’s degree in general psychology and applied behavioral analysis. To further improve my skill in this field, I have been active in developing an intervention plan, targeting children with autism.
My career is driven by the belief I have in human of creativity. People have been endowed with the unique ability to bring about their imaginations into something tangible. I view the process of turning ...

Nutrition Content Application of Knowledge

SAT
While I haven’t taken many classes in Human Nutrition (HNF classes), I have performed incredibly well in the ones that I have taken. My cumulative GPA in HNF 150 (Introduction to Human Nutrition) and HNF 444 (Business of Nutrition Services) was a 3.5, indicating superior understanding and application of the practices discussed within those classes. I believe that the introductory course (HNF 150) was particularly valuable, because it framed the context of my studies for me. It provided a setting for all further study in this field, as well as providing specific information regarding the basics of ...

I. Introduction
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 ...

Professional Affiliation

Nelesen Flumo has an extensive experience and deep knowledge of sophisticated, IT-integrated business contexts. Marked by extended spans and vertical integration of administrative and management functions across numerous business contexts, Nelesen Flumo has accumulated considerable executive management expertise. Nelesen Flumo's professional background is a rich personal background in several countries, a decided asset in current business ecosystem.
Currently, Nelesen Flumo has been an Executive Assistant at Talley Management Group (https://www.talley.com/) since 2014 and over 2008-2014 at Goodman-Gable-Gould. In both capacities, Nelesen Flumo manages and performs a broad range of senior executive functions including, most notably, managing activities for staff, ...

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. ...

The Canadian poet Robert Service remains a paradox. He is the best selling poet of the twentieth century and yet his work has been reviled and criticized by literary critics. His biographer, Mallory, claims that “his poetry has touched the lives of millions of North Americans” (xv).
Because of his enormous success, Service’s life was a real rag-to-riches story. Born on January 16th, 1874 to Scottish parents (his father worked in a bank), he followed his father’s footsteps when he first left school, joining a bank in Glasgow, the family having moved back to Scotland where Service joined them at ...

Introduction

The Regional District of Nanaimo (RDN) contains a lovely harbor city on the east coast of central Vancouver Island in British Columbia. Nanaimo is the sixth largest city in British Columbia and is popular for its beauty, large variety of recreational opportunities, and shopping centres. It is the second largest urban city on the Island.

In 1891the main part of Nanaimo is what is now considered to be the northern part of the City of Nanaimo (Map 1). In the 1890s north ward was the center for retail, industry At that time the population was approximately 1300. (VIU, 2011)

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This study frames Melman’s leadership style/behavior within five dimensions, such as Vision, Organization, Communication, Trust, and Creativity, where those dimensions evolved with time and create an impression that his leadership journey began with Participative leadership style, before embracing Servant leadership style. Accordingly the study reviews Melman’s actions and words, before substantiating its position.

Vision

Melman opened Eccentric in 1989, partnering with Oprah Winfrey, but soon he found that business is not catching up as per his expectations due to the fact that they were “trying to do too much with “steaks, fish, American, French, Southern.” Accordingly he launched ...

Central Bankers:Jannet Yellen

Early Life and Education
Born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York, Janet Yellen is currently serving as chairman of Federal Reserve and is also the first woman to hold this position. Being a bright and intelligent student right from the school days, she was elected as editor- in-chief of her school newspaper and became valedictorian by the time she graduated from school in 1963. She then went on to study economics at Brown University, where she earned her bachelor degree in Economics in 1967. Thereafter, she enrolled at Yale University for her doctorate in economics, which she completed in ...

Introduction

The life of prominent personalities remains one of the most comprehensive topics focussed on in the field of sociology. This can be accredited to the fact that various prominent personalities played a comprehensive role in bringing about social change in the society. Worth noting is the fact that the traditional society was filled with various societal matter that hundred societal progress. As an example, the traditional society had a less regard for women in the society as evident by the fact that women were discriminated highly. Nonetheless, the emergence of prominent personalities led to mutual change of the society in terms ...

It was a time of transformation; it was the early 13th century and add this very moment the two tectonic plates of religion and global trade were shifting and capturing new geographies. Genghis Khan proved to be a revolution in the Mongolian history and he conquered without fail with an idea of creating universal harmony through subjugation of all other races. His methods included a lot of slaughter to gain access to other empires and by the time he died is Empire got extended to Russia and China and was also touching the areas that led to Christian Europe.
Man (2006) ...

Since the early colonial period, Black Americans or those with African or Black descent were persecuted by the whites. The United States, for example, had sold Black Americans or those with half African descent as slaves and restricted them in such extent that they were refused food, shelter and the right to fight for their rights as regular citizens of the United States. Although there were movements that fought for the abolishment of slavery and the establishment of equal rights, many still held the sentiment against the Black Americans or the African-Americans throughout the region in the early 1970s. ...

Jane Addams entered public life in an era not all that different from our own time: the Oval Office was inhabited by a succession of men who were, it seemed, much smaller than the times, too often treating the position as a way to confer privileges on cronies for four (or, quite infrequently, eight) years, sucking all of the possible prestige (and income) out of this position but doing very little in the way of inspiring or even leading the nation. This procession began with the Republican Party’s deal to effectively end Reconstruction if Rutherford B. Hayes could take office, ...

When one hears the name “Pablo Picasso”, or just “Picasso”, one is reminded of vivid and abstract colors that form odd shapes or cubes depicting the subject. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in the Andalusian city known as Málaga to parents Don José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. He is the eldest of three with him as the only son in the family. Picasso’s father is a professor in the School of Arts and Crafts in Andalusia, while his mother watched over their children. Picasso easily displayed his interest in art ...

This paper will look at the similarities and differences in the Presidencies of Barack Obama and Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt became President during a trying time for America. The Great Depression was in full swing caused by the fact that Wall Street and the banks had collapsed causing millions of people or about 25 percent of the population. to be without jobs or financial security (Miller). When Roosevelt came into office he put together an economic package known as the New Deal in order to help alleviate the crisis and get men back to work.
Almost seventy years later in ...

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

Personal Background

Adam Smith was born in 1723 in Kirkcaldy in Scotland and was raised by his widowed mother. Adam Smith’s educated began at a local district school. In the year 1737, Smith was sent to the Glasgow College, later he also studied at the Baliol College in the Oxford University. Smith graduated with an extensive understanding of European literature and started to hate the school of English thought. In the year 1751, Smith was hired by the Glasgow University as the professor of logic. In the year 1752, Smith transferred to the moral philosophy. Smith’s lectures ...

The story of John Wayne Gacy is a curious one but not entirely unprecedented in the context of some of the world’s most famous serial killers. A well-respected member of the community, practically everyone was shocked when it turned out that he was an incredibly prolific serial killer who was also known to the police for sexually assaulting young boys. It is the contention of this paper that he was so successful precisely because of his double life – by becoming such a well-respected member of the community he created the perfect alibi for his behavior and made himself ...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, which was written by Frederick Douglass himself, sheds valuable insight into the man who is today known so well for his participation in the Anti-Slavery movement during the 19th century. Years after escaping slavery in Maryland, he got it published in 1845 by the Anti-Slavery office in Boston, Massachusetts. Douglass was born into slavery, suffered its hopeless cruelties, and eventually escaped to the north to live out his days with his wife, Anna. This is a brief description of his life up to the time he became influential in the Anti-Slavery cause.

Frederick Douglass' Story

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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) belongs to the prominent American thinkers and public figures. In him were combined a great scientist-encyclopaedist, a brilliant propagandist of the Enlightenment ideas and active leader of the bourgeois revolution. By decision of the World Peace Council, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Franklin was celebrated all over the world. Scientific and public activity of Franklin is inextricably linked with the war of Independence in 1775 - 1783 years. The largest volume and most famous works of Franklin is "Autobiography» (The Life of Benjamin Franklin written by Himself). It was started by Franklin in 1771 ...

Introduction

The enactment of PC1001 was seen as a milestone towards the institutionalization of Canada’s labour movement. Justice Ivan Rand was appointed arbitrator to bring to an end the strike involving workers from Ford’s Windsor plant in Canada. He gave the unions the right to use a check off system that would help in the collection of the unions’ dues. This, Justice Ivan saw as a means to give the union financial stability before they could grow themselves into single entities. The Rand Ruling has been used as a template for Canada’s labour relations.
This essay will examine the Ford ...

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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 ...

A Snapshot of My Professional and Personal Life During My DuPont Career from 1977-2013

Please write something about yourself here (academic background, current professional career, etc)
My Life at DuPont
A Snapshot of My Professional and Personal Life During My DuPont Career from 1977-2013

The Career Growth

My early days at DuPont were quite a challenge. I heard from people that only very few made it working at where they wanted to be. While I was at my job at the Nylon Beaming, I became so determined to reach my goal, which was at that time to work in Nylon Spinning.
While I was at the height of my motivation to excel, word was ...

Alban Berg was an Austrian composer, teacher and one of the most prominent representatives of the Second Viennese musical expressionism and composer school. Alan Berg was a student and a follower of A. Schoenberg, who was Alban Berg’s teacher in years 1904 - 1911.
One of the most prominent representatives of expressionism in music, Berg expressed in his works characteristic of expressionist artists thoughts, feelings and images: dissatisfaction with the social life, feelings of helplessness and loneliness. The hero of his works can be expressed asa little man, driven to despair by a hostile environment of bourgeois society. Ground for ...

Introduction

The father of the integrated circuit is none other than Jack Kilby. He was of the major forces behind integrated circuits that combined efforts with other great minds in the year 1958. He was an engineer who would deal with electronics. He was born in the year 1923 in Missouri and passed on in 2005 in Texas after succumbing to cancer. He is also a laureate Nobel Prize winner in the year 2000 having been recognized as being a great contributor in physics. ‘’He also many more things, for example, the calculator that would be easy to carry around since; it ...

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 ...

In order to provide a successful bio-geography, one needs to go as much back in years as possible and provide their family’s events, regarding the changes the family members made to get a better life, as influenced by any external reasons, such as the economic situation at the time being, politics and culture. For that reason, my family’s bio-geography is shaped as followed:
My great great grandfather was a proud private school owner in Uzbekistan that also loved farming in the 1930’s. According to my father, being a farmer in this particular geographical spot was considered a great advantage that ...

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois: A Biography

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868. He was born and grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His parents were Alfred and Mary Silvina Du Bois. Her mother’s family lived among the small, free black community in Great Barrington. Her mother descended from English, African, and Dutch ancestors.
William’s paternal great-grandfather was a French-American named James Du Bois who fathered different offspring with some slave mistresses. Alexander was one of the many mixed-race sons of James. When Alexander went to ...

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RE: Summer 2013 CBSSports.com Media Apps Intern (13241BR)
I am hereby applying to the Summer 2013 CBSSports.com Media Apps Internship Program which is advertised at Intern Match . I am currently an engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology and as deduced from your requirements, my current skills and competencies perfectly match the skills and experience required and stipulated in the program.
I am very much interested in working and collaborating with members of a group and to gain the announced exposure to large scale web media infrastructure . I am proficient in ...

Menacekeys was born in Fort Worth, Texas. The oldest of two sons, he was raised by his father while his mom served a 12-year prison term for child-abuse for almost killing both his younger brother and him. Consequently, music was always an escape from the reality of his troubled childhood. He discovered a passion for the piano at age five, and learned various other instruments throughout his youth, including drums and saxophone.

At age 15, Menacekeys gained his first taste of the music business with an internship through a House and Electronic based group, Oracale of Dallas, TX (Inertia Records). However, near ...