Gabrielle Fraenkel MOR 472 – Professor Turrill November 17‚ 2010 Case Notes: Heidi Roizen 1. Describe Roizen’s network (including her reasons for developing her network) and how she developed it. Roizen’s young adult life shaped the reasons as to why she was going to become independent and self-sufficient. After suffering the tragic loss of her fiancé she set out to build a career and learned very early on that building connections with high-level people was something she had a talent for
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Heidi Roizen/ Building a Network In my opinion Heidi Roizen’s network is one of her greatest assets. “While other people use networks to build their business‚ Heidi’s business is networking. She’s very effective and uses her network to add real value.”‚ Randy Komisar commented on the article. Her networking skills are extremely efficient. She is really good at blending her professional with her personal networking. She always grabs the nucleus people of a network and then keeps in touch with all
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1. Using the assigned readings‚ provide an analysis of Roizen’s network Heidi Roizen’s network is based on a wealth of social capital‚ or resources in the form of ideas‚ leads‚ power‚ trust‚ and financial capital. Roizen’s management of her social capital has enabled her to attain professional and personal success by building her networks with individuals from numerous groups. These include her original networks at Tandem – as editor of the company newsletter – developing relationships with the
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1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of Roizen’s network at the end of the case? Heidi Roizen has invested time and effort in developing and sustaining relationships/networks in the computer industry‚ especially in the Silicon Valley area‚ throughout her professional career. As she moves into her venture capitalist role‚ her networking efforts have the following strengths - • Includes executives including CEO’s‚ thereby giving her the experience of interacting with these business leaders.
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Case Analysis- Heidi Roizen PROBLEM- When an individual of Heidi’s broad network needed a personal favor in reviewing their business plan for gaining venture capital from SOFTBANK‚ Heidi acted equally amongst her network and was forced to say ‘No’. Does saying ‘No’ damage Heidi’s intimate network that had been the pillar of her career success? ANALYSIS- Heidi’s career success was built on her networking skills with individuals whom she “goes deep” in forming personal networks with individuals.
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Heidi Roizen 1. What general networking principles does Heidi Roizen follow? A: “She came‚ She Saw‚ She Conquered”. This phrase aptly describes Heidi’s networking .The following points summarizes her principles: Heidi Roizen made even the smallest conversation so memorable that it leaves a lasting impression. Being an outgoing person‚ she understood the importance of blending professional networking with social relationship She only leveraged her contacts only when she saw a win-win situation for
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Reading Report: Heidi Summary Heidi is a heartwarming novel about a lovely little girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book “for children and those who love children” as quoted from its subtitle in 1880 by the author Johanna Spyri. Heidi is an orphan who was first raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld‚ Switzerland. At the age of five‚ Heidi was brought to her grandfather‚ who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives alone in the Alps. He resented
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Question #1: Using assigned readings‚ provide an analysis of Roizen’s network. What kinds of networks does Roizen build? What do they look like? Analysis: Throughout her career‚ Heidi Roizen was able to build very large and rich social capital. A life-changing event‚ losing her fiancé to an airplane crush‚ became a seed for Heidi to start a new page in life pursuing her own interests and goals. Heidi has a very outgoing‚ genuine‚ sincere‚ down-to-earth and high-energy personality. Ability to meet new
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"The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy Wasserstein kept my interest so much that I could not put it down until I was to the last page. I liked how the issue of sexuality played a role along with the issue of feminist goals in this play. I believe they complimented one another in that both groups strive for equal right among the majority. For example when Peter starts to march with the other women from the Art Institute. It shows that he is standing for a cause the effects another minority group in our
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Case Assignment Summary: Heidi Roizen The case about Heidi Roizen was very interesting to me because I can not believe how many people she is connected with or I should say networked with. I believe her networking skills had more to do with her personality‚ being outgoing and high-energy by nature‚ and that it would be difficult to have just anybody be able to pull this off. But I must say this story really opened my eyes as to how important having a network is. I personally do not have
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