...Canceling School In the article, For Mayor, Keeping Schools Open Brings Another Headache, Michael Grynbaum reported that the new Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio and the schools Chancellor, Carmen Farina made the decision last Wednesday to keep NYC schools open on Thursday in the wake of the impending snow storm. The decision to keep schools open set off a firestorm of criticism and the Mayor found himself being publically called out by Al Roker of the Today Show. (Grynbaum, 2013) NYC schools rarely close and have only done so on 11 occasions over the last 40 years. Mayor de Blasio defended himself saying, “It would be nice if we got a video the night before of what the next day looks like”. (Grynbaum, 2013) That remark was met with criticism from Al Roker who stated, “Mr. Mayor, I could never run NYC, but I know when it’s time to keep kids home from school.” (Grynbaum, 2013) The decision to close schools or keep them open during inclement weather is a question that many districts are facing across the country this winter. School districts throughout Indiana are trying to figure out how they will make up the lost school days to meet the 180 requirement. I understand Al Roker’s comments that the schools probably should have been closed. But, sometimes I think we lose sight of other consequences of closing schools. In my position, I worked with the NYC Department of Education for 6 years. Their student population is larger than the city of Indianapolis at 1,000...
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...Sofía Solano Mendoza James Denza Seminar Academic Inquiry 27/04/2011 SEXTING Sexting is the act of sending sexually explicit photos via text messages, and is shockingly common among teens. According to Katie Couric of [Fox News], [Sexting] is “the new craze all over the country among 11 to 17 year-old adolescents.” A recent study by MSNBC found that 20% (1 in 5) of teens between the ages of 12 and 17 have sexted in their lives. Teens say “sexting” is one way to gain approval from peers or possible suitors. Teens in America are facing criminal charges of child pornography for sending and receiving nude pictures. These photos are often forwarded from friend-to-friend via cell phone and even around entire classes. With the availability of technology, young people are not aware that once they start cyber-swapping photos they are on the Internet to stay. If these photos get into the hands of the wrong people such as college admissions or future employers they could ruin the chance to fulfill a dream and there is nothing sexy about that. In fact, I see a relation with the movie of American Beauty, because in the entire movie Rick the neighbor of Jane is filming her with some erotic scenes. The media image of scantily dressed individuals is so common that teenagers don’t feel that it is wrong. It isn’t uncommon for teens to follow media and act like the people they see on the television everyday. In music videos it isn’t uncommon to see women...
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...Background Since childhood, Becky Fuller has dreamed to work for the Today show as news producer. However, her effort to the job is off-putting to potential suitors and eventually being laid off from her job at the local Good Morning New Jersey. After this event, her mother advises her to stop her dream to make her life better; However, Becky perseveres, and continues her dream. She sends lots of résumés, and receives an opportunity from IBS for the national morning show, DayBreak. For the job interview with Jerry Barnes, it is not satisfactory. Then, Becky bumps into one of her heroes, veteran television journalist Mike Pomeroy in an elevator, and meets him. Finally, Barnes hires Becky to be DayBreak's executive producer. On her first day, Becky realizes that the show has many problems. She decides Pomeroy to replace her co-host Paul McVee as her new co-host. Pomeroy refuses to become Becky’s co-host because he wants to less workload. Becky uses Pomeroy’s contract to force him to accept her requirement eventually. However, Pomeroy is not contributed for his job due to many reasons, and the result is discouraging as ratings begin to drop; Becky is told that DayBreak may be canceled. Therefore, Becky decides to use radical approach in order to raise the ratings and save the show, but Barnes doesn’t believe Becky could success. During a staff meeting, Pomeroy shows interest in doing a story, and finally he breaks the story of racketeering on live television, and this help...
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...Emmy-winning TV makeup artist. She created her first foundation and concealer products seven years ago while working for Barbara Walters, Meredith Vieira, and the rest of the hosts on “The View.” 2. Contributions and Uniqueness With sales growth slower than desired, Eve Pearl, the founder, is considering pitching her high-end cosmetic products — priced well above department store levels — to a broad audience by appearing on ShopNBC, a 24-hour TV shopping channel in the mode of QVC. While working on “The View,” Ms. Pearl started selling her brush-on products from her New York apartment. By 2008, she had become Ms. Vieira’s personal makeup specialist. She followed the broadcaster backstage on the sets of “Today” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” appeared on “Today” herself, and basked in the glow of a ribbon-cutting. She was flanked by morning show stars — Ms. Vieira, Ann Curry, Hoda Kotb and Natalie Morales — at the grand opening of her stylish 700-square-foot Upper East Side boutique. A YouTube posting of that celebrity-filled debut attracted tens of thousands of viewers and encouraged Ms. Pearl to start posting promotional videos demonstrating her techniques and products. That proved to be a good thing, with Internet orders soon outstripping her boutique business and her wholesale deliveries to makeup professionals. By 2011, Ms. Pearl had more than 100 products — some with prices as high as $98 — and more than $1 million in revenue. Her online sales were accounting...
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...Academics today question the classical definition and conceptualization of culture. In the past, different definitions have been made as to what culture is. Today it has become clear that culture cannot be simply defined. Critique of the prior definitions of culture lead us to conclude that culture should be understood as being derivative of the individual’s experience. Culture is no longer a singular concept, but rather contains multiple influences and is experienced differently by different individuals of the same group. Previous definitions of culture included some very limiting Most would agree that entrepreneurs are people who take risks, invest capital, or think up new concepts for products. These different aspects may not all take place in the same situation. An entrepreneur does not necessarily have to do all of these things to be considered an entrepreneur. He or she may invest in an existing business and not change anything about it but still be called an entrepreneur due to the risk taken in running the business. People think of good ideas all the time, but an entrepreneur is someone who can successfully implement one. The entrepreneur has been identified as someone with unique characteristics that allow them to succeed at what they do. For example, they are described as having confidence, self-determination, creativity and the ability to “see the big picture” among other such qualities (Lambing & Kuehl 2007). I think Kevin Avruch cite more anecdotal evidence...
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...answer the following question: In the Schumpeterian approach to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs are the creative economic actors who fashion new ventures by combining the factors of production in new and innovative ways. To what extent does this approach hold true for entrepreneurs in the early 21st century? The basic analysis method consists in finding similarities and differences between Schumpeter’s and modern day theories of entrepreneurship and establishing general patterns coming out of the comparative analysis. We shall try and decompose the main question in several constituent parts. The above given Schumpeter’s definition of entrepreneurship can be broken down as follows: * Entrepreneurs are economic actors, i.e. individuals engaged in commercial activity * Entrepreneurs create new ventures through innovation * Innovation consists in combining existing factors of production in new ways We will analyse both Schumpeter’s and modern day entrepreneurs along these and other dimensions in an attempt to place Schumpeter’s concepts in the realities of the 21st century. 2. Schumpeter’s theory of entrepreneurship Economic development One of Schumpeter’s major life works is his book Theory of Economic Development published first in 1911 in German and then republished in an updated version in 1934 in English (Schumpeter 1934), in which he describes a model of economy where entrepreneurs are the main drivers for change and development. In the first chapter of the book...
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...Case Study Analysis on an Entrepreneur and their company strategy.h Introduction to Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (ENTE 1521) Rebecca Jade Inglis P14145784 Thursday – 14:00 – 15:00 David Stringer ENTE 1521 ASSIGNMENT 1 Criteria 2014/15 TITLE: Case Study Analysis on an Entrepreneur and their company strategy Student Number:……………………………………………………. Tutor Marking……………………………………………………….. Please note: You will LOSE 5% if you do not include this criteria sheet CRITERIA | ANY COMMENTS | MARK | Executive Summary. 5% | | | Company Profiles 20% | | | Entrepreneurs Profiles, and how did they set up.Evidence of research25% | | | Personality Trait Analysis.Evidence of research30% | | | Management Behaviours 10% | | | 7. Correct format as outlined in module guide; eg correct referencing, free from errors etc………………10% | | | Less Penalties TOTAL MARKS | | Executive Summary This report has looked at Michelle Mone’s timeline of life showing how she has grown in successfulness and wealth from being brought up in a poor and troubled family and being raised with very little to blossoming into a victorious entrepreneur who is now worth millions of pounds. This report has shown how Michelle Mone’s personality links in with the ‘Big Five Personality Traits’ showing supporting examples of the relationship between Michelle and these entrepreneurial traits. The research which I...
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...The Entrepreneur who inspires me Background: The entrepreneur who inspires me is Kaniz Almas Khan who is the owner of Persona. She is the pioneer who established Persona as a brand in the beauty industry. She is the successful entrepreneur not only among the women but also among the entrepreneurs of Bangladesh. With a deep passion on beautification of human being and a great wish to do something different and big, she started her journey in the beauty industry. She has started her journey with a very small capital. Though her parental home is in Dhaka but she was born in Chittagong. Her father Dewan Badiul Alam used to stay there in connection with employment. She had passed her childhood at Dhaka’s garden house in Malibag. After passing Secondary and Higher Secondary Examinations from Siddheswari Girls School and College, Kaniz Almas Khan accomplished graduation from Eden College. Then she took training on Beatification from famous beautician of Bangladesh, Zerin Ashgar Khan. Later took training from Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, China and Bangkok. With a deep passion on beautification of human being and a great wish to do something different and big, she started her journey in the beauty industry. In her journey to become a successful woman entrepreneur in the beauty industry of Bangladesh, she got all types of necessary supports from her mother, in laws, husband and peer groups. Then from innate eagerness to beauty and with the inspiration of the members of the family, make-up...
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...Why did I choose this topic? Let see a modern definition of entrepreneurship: “An entrepreneur is a person who undertakes innovations, finance and business insight in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods" You should be asking yourself what is the links between Entrepreneurship and this video? Today is the age of Entrepreneurship and innovation, with emergence of famous start-up like Facebook, Twitter, which earn huge amount of money. Nowadays to launch a new product advertisement is essential, but very expensive: thanks to God poor people have Internet that allow them to advertise freely or at low cost. That is the way used by Facebook, Google, YouTube to hit Jackpot: they advertise for poor and rich people. This video which named “High Velocity Media: What's Next in Online Advertising Revenue”, show lot of opportunities that an entrepreneur can exploit by using the Internet. ------------------------------------------------- 1) In the video it is said that: “ 30-40 percent of our time engaging in media is spent online, then why are only 6-7 percent of all ad dollars going toward online media?” That means, people use 30-40 % of their time consuming medias and contents on the Internet. And that is an average for all age bracket (from teenagers to seniors), in fact this is more bigger than 40% for the young people. And only 6-7% of the ads budget is expenditure is on the Internet. Following 3.8 percent growth in 2011, global advertising...
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...and they were getting a lot of offers. Finally weeks later were hired to do their first project. Simmons and Newport’s confidence started to grow after every new commission they were making. . PWS was later rated the #1 youth-run web development company in the nation by Youngbiz Magazine. In order to further his knowledge and hone his skills, Michael took a course using a scholarship he won from the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to learn more about running a business. Michael has won three entrepreneur of the year awards from the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Fleet, and the National Coalition for Empowering Youth Entrepreneurship. , Michael and Sheena formed the EEE which was dedicated to helping students become entrepreneurs. In 2005, Sheena graduated from New York University with a major in Communication Studies. In 2006, Sheena was named by Business Week as one of the country's top 25 entrepreneurs under the age of 25 and profiled in USA Today, on the AOL homepage, and on CBS, NBC,...
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...your business? We have been operating since October 2003 Question: What do you do before you become an entrepreneur? I was a sales executive at Golden Sky Trading Question: What’s your most memorable experience as an entrepreneur? My most memorable experience was about all hardships and trials I have to go through in starting this business which today I call achievements Question: What do you enjoy most about what you are doing? Having your own time and schedule is what I enjoy most Question: What’s the biggest thing you struggle with as an entrepreneur? Doing feasibility studies Question: How does being an entrepreneur affect your relationship with your friends and family? Again the joy of having a stable earning business is having free time thus making my relationships with my family and friends better Question: If you could be anything other than an entrepreneur, what would it be and why? I would be a doctor because I love the idea of curing sick people and earning money at the same time Question: What do you do on a daily basis to grow as an entrepreneur? Reading newspaper and surfing internet for business related articles Question: What thing about entrepreneurship do you struggle to understand? The amount of permits you need to operate Question: What’s your greatest fear as an entrepreneur? Failure especially if you have a well grown company and other families relay on their jobs as a source of...
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...Running head: Entrepreneurial Leadership Entrepreneurial Leadership Heather Tanenbaum Alicia Luna BUS508116VA016-1118-001 October 23, 2011 Abstract Today’s entrepreneurs can learn how to profit and be social responsibility by studying the leading entrepreneurs of the past. In this paper we will learn Thomas Edison’s and Blake Mycoskie’s leadership style, and major business principles for a profit-oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary goal is to provide a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. Also their major business principles for a social-responsibility oriented entrepreneurial approach in which the primary is goal to make a positive impact on society (people, families, ecology, or similar) while providing a product or service to consumers and to make a profit. This paper will also show what three resources or tools available through the Small Business Administration and SCORE would be the most useful. Profit-oriented entrepreneurial Thomas Edison is well known for three main inventions. Those being the light bulb, the phonograph, and the X-ray but the invention he profited from you may have never even heard about. In 1874, Edison invented the quadruplex telegraph, which allowed the transmission of two signals in each direction down one wire. He sold this invention to Western Union for the sum of $10,000 which was a large sum at that time. He used this money to create a work space to work on his other inventions...
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...talks about how newly starting entrepreneurs and Eric Ries himself were starting their business incorrectly. It says that most new entrepreneurs don’t exactly know what the customers want. Eric’s business IMVU was a messaging with video games. He and his partners were mostly concerned about the quality of the product. However, when they finished it finally it was not selling. The reason was that they did not know who their customers were and what they wanted. Customers did not care for a high quality for product, they wanted it to be popular, easy to use, fun, and be able to communicate with random people. Only after they have brought in customers and learned what they wanted the products started selling. Today IMVU is a profitable company with more than $50 million annual revenue. From this experience Eric suggests that learning what customers want is crucial. He suggests building a minimum viable product- MVP to test on customers. The goal of this MVP is to test the fundamental business hypothesis. I agree with this. The MVP helps the entrepreneur learn not only about the customer, but also the product, the business, etc. It helps the entrepreneur know if the business is viable, and worth the investment, since 90% of new businesses fail. And usually the entrepreneur ends up putting all of its money and effort into the business that is not giving any profits. Therefore MVP is a very helpful tool in testing a new product or business for entrepreneurs. Works Cited Leach, Chiris...
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...E-Business 4 What is Entrepreneurship? 4 What is an Entrepreneur? 5 Who are the potential entrepreneurs? 5 Entrepreneurship as a subject 6 Conclusion 7 Reference List 8 Introduction This literature incorporates relevant quotes and theories from industry (Hospitality and Tourism) journal articles and books in attempt to deliberate: can “Entrepreneurship be taught?” Firstly, in light of the topic the meanings of both ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘entrepreneurs’ need to be classified to create the foundation for this review. In order to answer whether about if entrepreneurship can even be taught, queries need to be made on what exactly is taught and how can it alter the mind set of attitudes towards creativity and risk; fundamental factors of an entrepreneur. In addition, the demographical target audience will also be reviewed over whether they fit into this reviews’ classification of what is an entrepreneur and whether courses can really be designed to teach the spirit of entrepreneurship. This critical review will seek to divulge the definitions of key points to the question and answer them in an argument that supports the theory that can “Entrepreneurship be taught?” Existing Market and E-Business Entrepreneurship is an important part of todays’ modern, technological and growing environment (Rimmington et al...
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...the ideas that most often lead to successful business first must be something the entrepreneur is truly passionate about. Idea multiplication and its exemplification of IDEO is one of the most useful processes that helps entrepreneur moving from the seed of an idea to something that is robust, exciting and powerful. There are four basic steps in this process: (1) gather stimuli, (2) multiply stimuli, (3) create customer concept and (4) optimize practicality2. Second, the idea is a strong opportunity as measured on the opportunity checklist. To be sure of having strong opportunity, entrepreneurs need a deep understanding of their customer, preferably knowing the customer by name. Better opportunities will have bigger market size and potentially growth in the future. Furthermore, these customers will buy the product frequently and pay a premium price for it (strong margins). Thus entrepreneurs need to be students of the marketplace, learning what trends are converging, and how do these shape customer demand today and into the future3.In order to prevent customers from shifting their attention to competitors, entrepreneurs need understanding competitive dynamics so that entrepreneurs can shape their opportunities to each the customer better than the competition can. This trend results in the attributes of holistic and fluid for entrepreneurial environment. Besides, it is necessary for entrepreneurs to know the way they source their raw materials and what government regulations mean...
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