Lesson 1 (3.0 points) 1. What is an entrepreneur? (0.5 points) An entrepreneur is a person who starts his or her own business‚ instead of working for someone else. 2. How are business entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs different? (1.0 points) A business entrepreneur sells products or services to make a profit and a social entrepreneur starts a business or organization that is meant to improve society in some way. 3. What are products? (0.5 points) A product is something a person
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http://cookiemarie.blogspot.ae/2011/03/chapter-5.html http://www.studymode.com/subjects/the-jack-welch-era-at-general-electric-page2.html 1. Corporate social responsibility is defined in Chapter 5 as the corporate duty to create wealth by using means that avoid harm to‚ protect‚ or enhance societal assets. Did GE in the Welch era fulfill this duty? Could it have done better? What should it have done? a. In Welch’s era‚ GE fulfilled its responsibilities to society. So therefore‚ they did meet
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bought by more common waged people and families instead of the tiny amount of the population that can afford high-class luxuries. Aviation keeps trade worldwide and spreads mass production to an even greater range and higher height. 3. Thomas Edison – Light Bulb Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century because it changed everything about the way we see and gave electricity a whole new world for people to utilize and expand with. Light bulbs give
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Original Text: from page 317 of the book Psychology‚ 1996 by Richard Gross But it is not only the vocabulary of a language that determines how and what we think and perceive but also the grammar. In the Hopi language‚ no distinction is made between past‚ present and future; it is a ‘timeless language’ (compared with English)‚ although it does recognise duration‚ i.e. how long an event lasts. In European languages‚ ‘time’ is treated as an objective entity‚ as if it were a ruler with equal spaces
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become rich without enriching others." The U.S. was between wars‚ inventions‚ technology‚ and also successful movements with one another. As business offered the best chances‚ certain people became well known‚ due to what they created. For example‚ Thomas Edison; who invented the light bulb had become “famous” along with other well known people. The "king of steel‚" Andrew Carnegie; was a true hero known to mankind. Andrew Carnegie was born in November 1835‚ in an attic room in Dunfermline‚ Scotland
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the company website (2014) General Electric’s slogan is “Imagination at Work” and to this extent‚ the organization has been fostering in imagination for quite some time. According to the research‚ the company was founded in 1878 by Thomas Edison in Menlo Park. Edison is most notable for inventing the light bulb‚ and as such‚ this corporation is one of the largest companies on Earth more than a hundred years later (General Electric‚ 2014). After getting its start in the 1800s the company‚ being
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created many new fields of science. Thomas Edison was born on February 11‚ 1847 in Milan‚ Ohio. As a child Edison was very bright. He started as a child to make and sell his own newspapers‚ and alongside he would also conduct his own experiments in his self-created lab. He later went to work as a telegraph operator for many years. Edison later in life became fascinated with electricity. Edison went on to invent many things that impacted the world. Edison made things like the incandescent light
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Westminster International College MBA Assignment Prepared by: Lecturer: Student Master of Business Administration Semester one Date of submit: 17 December 2012 Table of content 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………3 2. Purpose and research problems…………………………………………………..3 3. Place and human resource management role in a control system organization in Kazakhstan and the USA……………………………………………………………4 4. Analysis of existing management practices of their
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shows that our lives are much more than our own; we are a part of our ancestors and part of the future even without our realization. All humans are born with a purpose‚ and are capable of creating the future of their choice. Normal people like Thomas Edison who found difficulty in subjects such as math‚ invented electricity which has had a major impact in technological advancements such as computers‚ television‚ and cell phones. “Segregated schools were and are inferior schools; we still haven’t fixed
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him. As we can see now he was wrong. He regrets his past now‚ but nothing he can do. We can predict or plan future‚ but we cannot change our past. Great people don’t become great easily‚ it takes passion and trying. Historical people such as Thomas Edison‚ Alexander Lodygin‚ Swan and etc.‚ who invented the light bulb didn’t just come up with ideas and solutions at the first time. They have tried many times‚ they worked hard day and night‚ they never gave up‚ and finally reached their goals. So if
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