ENTREPRENEURIAL GROWTH Fall Semester – 2010 MAN 385.24 - Unique #04700 Professor John N. Doggett Class Times Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 to 12:30 pm Class Room UTC 1.118 Office CBA 5.124K Office Hours Mondays from 3:30 to 4:30 pm or by appointment Phone 512-232-7671 E-Mail john.doggett@mccombs.utexas.edu Teaching Assistant Ben Brooks Ben.Brooks@mba11.mccombs.uterxas.edu Course Objectives This course is for students who want to explore the challenges of running
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Overview Location: Chevy Chase‚ MD Building Type: Hospitality – renovation of a hotel built in 1970 Project Scope: 125‚000 SF‚ 226-room hotel in an urban setting Completed: July 2009 Rating: LEED® for New Construction Ver. 2.2 Level: Gold candidate Courtyard by Marriott‚ Chevy Chase is a 226room hotel located in the Friendship Heights neighborhood of Chevy Chase‚ MD. The hotel primarily serves the business travelers visiting various corporate headquarters and institutions in the area‚ including National
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In this day and age‚ companies have been trying to find new ways to increase the efficiency of their employees. One way that businesses have been doing this is by promoting driverless cars for the future. In the United States alone there are over 250 million vehicles in use‚ and all of these vehicles create a lot of traffic (Hirsch). The massive amount of workers trying to commute creates opportunities for human error to occur which contributes to the average worker spending about forty-two hours
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I. History North Park Group of Companies is a Chinese Restaurant managed by Raphael Soon (President) and Gabriel Soon (Vice President). It operates a chain of restaurants under the trade names NORTH PARK NOODLES‚ NEXT DOOR NOODLES‚ KOPI TIAM and MA CHICKEN MAMI. NORTH PARK NOODLE HOUSE INC. is a Chinese restaurant which food critiques rated as one of the top ten restaurants in Metro Manila. The company was born in September 6‚ 1994 and is under the creative leadership of the Soon brothers -
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April‚ 2005. 16. Katzev‚ R. Carsharing Portland: Review and Analysis of Its First Year. Department of Environmental Quality‚ Portland‚ OR‚ 1999. http://www.publicpolicyresearch.net/documents/CSP_first_year_eval.PDF. Accessed July 31‚ 2005. 17. Zipcar. Zipcar Customer Survey Shows Car-Sharing Leads to Car Shedding. http://www.zipcar.com/press/releases/press-21. Accessed July 31‚ 2005. 18. Flexcar. Impact. http://www.flexcar.com/vision/impact.asp. Accessed July 31‚ 2005. 19. Rydén‚ C. and E. Morin.
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Fiat Customer Experience in the United States Introduction Fiat is an Italian car company headquartered in Turin‚ Italy. The parent company‚ Fiat SpA‚ owns many reputable car brands in the world including Alfa Romeo‚ Chrysler‚ Dodge‚ Ferrari‚ Jeep and Maserati (fiatspa.com). The company re-entered the US market in 2011 by purchasing a 20% stake in Chrysler. As of January‚ 2014‚ Fiat owns 100% of Chrysler (Sloan‚ 2014). It sells the Fiat 500 line in the US (fiatusa.com). The purpose of this paper
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Case Study Discussion Questions for Case Studies in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance Professor Edward H. Chow Spring 2013 1. (2/20) Introduction and get acquainted: Entrepreneurship and finance Lecture and discussion: A perspective on Entrepreneurship‚ Howard H. Stevenson‚ 1988 (9-384-131) How is finance related to corporate objectives? Note on the financial perspective: What should entrepreneurs know? William A. Sahlman‚ Harvard Business Publishing (9-293-045) In your view‚ what
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KEL612 Revised March 21‚ 2012 MEGHAN BUSSE AND JEROEN SWINKELS Enterprise Rent-A-Car History The American car rental industry was born on August 20‚ 1916‚ when Josiah Ellis “Joe” Saunders‚ an entrepreneur living in Omaha‚ Nebraska‚ ran a seven-line classified ad offering “Automobiles for Hire.” Saunders’s fleet consisted of one vehicle—a Model T Ford—that he rented for ten cents per mile. The industry Saunders created grew dramatically with the advent of commercial air travel after
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Sustainability Strategies: The Costa Rica Case By Dimas Siem INTRODUCTION Sustainable development requires balancing the needs of society‚ the economy‚ and the environment. In 1994‚ Costa Rica adopted sustainable development as an official policy. Since that time‚ a major effort was set in motion to look at the country’s sustainable growth potential in an integrated way. This push entailed four objectives: economic efficiency‚ social equity‚ political participation and environmental sustainability
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Case Analysis: Ford Motor Company Global Strategic Management March 4‚ 2013 Ford Motor Company: Organization Profile Ford Motor Company Staying “Ford Tough” Henry Ford established the auto company in June 16‚ 1903. An engineer by formation‚ Henry had a vision of making vehicles that would change society. He wanted to offer an affordable product to the public‚ one that his own workers could buy. His vision took him to model T in 1908‚ and to improve the manufacturing process with the conveyor
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