Informational-Interview Questions for Entrepreneurs Compiled by Katharine Hansen‚ Ph.D. Informational Interviews are a wonderful networking tool‚ as well as for learning more about careers in which you are interested. What if you’re more interested in starting your own business than working for someone else? Informational interviews are terrific for finding out more about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Here are questions to consider asking entrepreneurs when you interview them:
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Basic Estimation Techniques In order to implement the various techniques discussed in this class‚ the students must be able to determine the mathematical relation between the economic variables that make up the various functions used in economicsdemand functions‚ production functions‚ cost functions‚ and others. For example‚ a manager often must determine the total cost of producing various levels of output. As you will see later‚ the relation between total cost (C) and quantity
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Chevron Corporation What began as the Pacific Coast Oil Company on September 10‚ 1879 in San Francisco transformed into what is now Chevron Corporation‚ recently ranked 8th among the world’s top oil companies by Petroleum Intelligence Weekly in 2011‚ second among US oil companies behind ExxonMobil. The company has a market capitalization of over $204.9 billion. They have expanded into essentially every area of the energy industry‚ including exploring for‚ producing‚ and transporting crude oil and
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all our companies worldwide. David Whitman‚ Whirlpool CEO‚ 1994 Quoted in the Harvard Business Review In 1989‚ Whirlpool Corporation (Whirlpool) embarked on an ambitious global expansion with the objective of becoming the world market leader in home appliances. Beginning with the purchase of a majority stake in an appliance company owned by Philips‚ the Dutch electronics firm‚ Whirlpool purchased a majority stake in an Indian firm‚ established four joint ventures in China‚ and made significant
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1) What were the major mistakes made by Corwin Corporation? Inappropriate handling of the Peters project and improper project selection process. They went for a new product development project that does not fit within Corwin’s conservative business perspective. Even though Corwin Corporation had a product selection policy defined‚ they did not evaluate the request from Peters‚ in line with the policy. If Corwin Corporation had followed its policy guidelines‚ the project might never been accepted
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1.0 INTRODUCTION The stereo headphone industry is created by John C. Koss in 1958 with his first stereo headphone. Koss Corp. was incorporated in 1971 in Milwaukee‚ Wisconsin and manufactures stereo headphones‚ speaker phones‚ computer headsets‚ telecom headsets‚ noise reducing headsets‚ and wireless headsets. Koss Corp. went public in 1965 at $5 per share. Over the last ten years‚ its stock price has ranged from $8 in July 2002‚ to its peak at $15 in July 2006 to its low at $4 in July 2010. It
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Objective of the study The primary objective of the study is to gain practical insights of the business world. Case analysis truly fulfills this objective. It is one of the most general and applicable methods of analytical thinking‚ depending only on the division of a problem‚ decision or situation into a sufficient number of separate cases. The derived objectives of this particular case study of ‘Zimmer Holdings (A): Acquisition of Centerpulse‚ Switzerland’ are the following: * To ascertain
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by Acme Corporation? -Acme Corporation faces the ethical issue of bribery in order for buyers to purchase their products. This type of behavior can cause the corporation million dollars of fees and decline of consumer trust. Moreover‚ if outsiders get a word of Acme’s misconduct‚ the corporation can loose large portion of revenue and damage its reputation. What should Acme do if there is a desire to make ethics a part of its core organizational values? -In order for Acme Corporation to prosper
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Marriott Corporation Jacob Piquette Jingjin Cen Chen Huo Wenkao Wu Accurately Measuring Debt Capacity For Marriott Corporation While management was correct in some aspects of measuring debt capacity for Marriott Corporation‚ the method used to obtain the ratio of 6.64 did not include the debt from the previous repurchase‚ grossly overstating the ratio and leading to believe that Marriott Corporation had a large unsused portion of debt capacity. This is shown in Exhibit 5. After thorough analysis
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SECURE ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS Introduction Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) is an open protocol which has the potential to emerge as a dominant force in the securing of electronic transactions. Jointly developed by Visa and MasterCard‚ in conjunction with leading computer vendors such as IBM‚ SET is an open standard for protecting the privacy‚ and ensuring the authenticity‚ of electronic transactions. This is critical to the success of electronic commerce over the Internet; without privacy
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