...technology, political organization and shifting demographics and social views have created entirely new understandings of what is important and where attention should be directed. Entrepreneurship is exciting and valued and most agree that while academics and others can’t help every person to be an entrepreneur, but can help those who are interested with tools, skill acquisition and ideas. The emergence and growth of women-owned businesses have contributed to the global economy and to their surrounding communities. The presence of women around the world driving small and entrepreneurial organizations has had a tremendous impact on employment and on business environments worldwide. Women-owned firms comprise between one-quarter and one-third of all the businesses in the formal economy, and are expected to play an even larger role in informal sectors (Delaney, 2002). Entrepreneurship refers to an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action. It includes creativity, innovation and risk taking, as well as the ability to plan and manage projects in order to achieve objectives. To achieve success, growth and employment, we need to stimulate the entrepreneurial mindsets of young women, encourage innovative business start-ups, and foster a culture that is friendlier to entrepreneurship and to the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The important role of education in promoting more entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviors is now widely recognized. Entrepreneurial programmes...
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...Success in college translates over to my persona as acquiring and constantly cultivating the principal attributes that constitute the well-rounded individual: educational, social, and moral feats. This suggests that my definition of success not only depends on a single aspect or factor but rather multiple departments in order to achieve complete satisfaction, which consists of a matured personality and prosperous future. Success requires no limitations to when fulfillment reaches maximum capacity, and therefore, drives and motivates me to dream of near-impossible achievements. Evidently, this signifies I will never cease to make a continual effort, even once I have reached optimal satisfaction, to strive towards success and the development...
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...PreARE: A Strategic Analysis Ricardo Baca Mares The PreARE Program was created to rehabilitate an architecture industry that has been deteriorating in both stature and credibility for the past few decades. Since 1990, a handful, percentage-wise, of architecture graduates have taken and passed the Architecture Registration Exam (ARE), and sadly enough, even a smaller number of all architecture graduates do not even attempt a single section of the ARE. What is the objective or goal of every academic institution that offers a degree in architecture? This is a question that I have been wondering since I graduated with a Masters in Architecture back in 1999. I, much like any other architecture graduate, receive countless mailouts from my alma mater asking me for my new address and my new employer. Some even ask me if I am married and do I have kids, but never once have I been asked how I am doing in my licensure process. Shouldn’t the College of Architecture be held accountable for students who never become licensed in the degree they spent five years pursuing and not-to-mention getting in debt with? Students study law to become lawyers much like students study medicine to become doctors. Shouldn’t students study architecture to become architects? Without taking and passing the ARE, a student can never call themselves an architect. If architects want the respect from the community that they once enjoyed with doctors and lawyers, changes need to be made. In sad consequence...
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...solve it. Gaurav Singh, Teach For India Gaurav Singh left a successful career at Accenture to join Teach for India’s inaugural cohort of teaching fellows. Assigned to teach 50 second graders (ranging in age from 6-14,) all of whom were significantly behind grade level, Gaurav quickly decided that he needed a huge and visible goal for his class. He decided on “4” —students would grow to four times their current level in the school year. He tracked his students obsessively — updating data in class using a smart phone, tweaking his plan to remediate students, and always keeping an eye on his big goal: 4. Within a year, most of Gaurav’s students met this goal, doubling, tripling and even quadrupling their key academic scores. 3 Transformational schools show us that success is both scalable and sustainable. KIPP...
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...12:15 (section 01) Class Location: Foster - 429 12:30 – 1:45 (section 02) Professor: Dr. Matthew Wood Email: ms_wood@baylor.edu Office Phone: 254-710-6640 Office Location: Foster, 210.36 Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday 9:00am – 11:00am. Additional times by appointment. Course Description and Objectives: Introductory course in entrepreneurship designed to explore the development of innovative thinking and venture exploration which would ultimately lead to a new venture. In that way, the primary focus of ENT 3320 is on understanding the processes that underpin the emergence of new business ventures. Topics covered include methods and processes of identifying and evaluating new business opportunities, conducting feasibility studies, evaluating methods of new venture financing and identifying the appropriate legal form of organization. In covering these topics students will be presented with current theoretical thinking in the field of entrepreneurship along with the practical tools needed for starting a new business. The course will be interactive in nature with discussion driven lectures, individual and group activities, problem solving scenarios, videos, and case analyses. Guest speakers will visit the class to provide expert knowledge and perspectives on the entrepreneurial process. Learning Initiatives: – Gain insight into the field of entrepreneurship by understanding the characteristics and mindset of entrepreneurs. – Develop...
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...Transitions—Middle Phase Practice Simone G. Benson Fordham University Spring 2015 The agency where I am interning is Partnership with Children. “Partnership” as it is called, works to strengthen the emotional, social and academic skills of at-risk children to prepare them for success--academically, socially, and in life. “Partnership’s” programs aim to bridge the gap between those who have a vested interest in working within New York City’s highest-need public schools, and those in need. “Partnership’s” goal is to transform the overall culture of many of the city’s struggling schools by helping students cope with the extreme stress of living in poverty. Helping students thrive in safe and supportive schools that encourage academic achievement is “Partnership’s” mission. Partnership with Children’s versatile programs responds to the diverse needs of their partner-schools by providing multiple services. Services include: Individual counseling that focuses on developing students’ resiliency against trauma-related stress, case management, and working with teachers and families. Students are taught how to regulate their emotions, develop a sense of purpose, seek assistance when needed, and set and achieve specific academic goals. Small group interventions help students develop necessary coping skills that build their confidence, and teach them to make good decisions. Topics are age group specific and tackle issues such as, self-awareness, self-management, social awareness...
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...The Employment Outlook for Youth: Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems as a Way Forward ---- An Essay --- Peter Vogel College of Management of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Odyssea 4.15 Station 5, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, peter.vogel@epfl.ch Since the outbreak of the recent financial crisis we have experienced some of the highest rates of youth unemployment in history. If we want to avoid branding the young people as a “Lost Generation”, we need to act quickly. One important active labor market strategy to solve the youth unemployment crisis is entrepreneurship, helping them turn into job creators rather than job seekers. Entrepreneurship has received significant attention over the past decade with a rapid and often uncoordinated increase in entrepreneurship support programs. These constitute a major part of entrepreneurial ecosystems. In order to build effective entrepreneurial ecosystems, we need to understand the components and assessment indices of such ecosystems. This essay proposes a new conceptual framework describing entrepreneurial ecosystems. The proposed framework is expected to support policymakers and practitioners in setting up new entrepreneurial ecosystems and serve as a basis for future research. Keywords: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Youth Unemployment, Next Generation Introduction An economic and labor market crisis has plagued the world since 2008. The labor market slowdown is dramatic with a current deficit of...
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...The key personality attributes that prompted Sean Gilligan’s entrepreneurial pursuits. Module : Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Module leader : Dr Kristos Kalantaridis. Word count : 2500 16-03-2012. MSc Applied Management and Enterprise. UB No: 11017266. Introduction In order to understand why Sean Gilligan became an entrepreneur, there are 3 key elements that revolve around him. His personality or attributes, his background and experience and the skills including how he learnt. In this essay, his personal attributes will only be discussed as this has been of great advantage to his career as an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is probably best understood as a process, the constituents of which are the entrepreneur, their persistent search for opportunities, usually grounded in market place, and their efforts to gather the resources needed to exploit those opportunities. Innovation and change, the risks people take and the roles they play to bring about change appear to be core themes in understanding the entrepreneurial process. However, you have the individual entrepreneur who is the driving force behind the process. Without that individual’s commitment, the process would not happen. Sean Gilligan is a chemist by profession and also the owner of a web design...
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...When Peers Are Not Equals: The Relative Age Effect in the Classroom Abstract Relative age effects are differentiated experiences amongst children in the earliest years of primary school resulting from both a single, yearly cut-off date and an escalation of curriculum replacing socialization with skill acquisition activities as early as kindergarten before maturity differences by age have evened out. Implementation of three cut-off dates per class and the creation of individual student developmental planning reduces the potentially long lasting effects associated with relative age differences. This study aims to determine the existence of, and potential long lasting effects associated with, relative age differences. A background on the evolving framework of early elementary curriculum to that of a factory model emphasizing the development of the whole over the individual is included to underscore the ripe conditions for relative age effects to manifest themselves. If nothing is done, relatively younger students will continue to score noticeably lower in reading, math, and science testing throughout elementary and middle school. Pre-university program participation in high school and college enrollment will remain lower, on average, among the relative youngest. Lastly, implications for educational policy, administrations, parents, and teachers are evaluated. What if the date of someone’s birthday was a gift in it of itself? Suppose this gift was manifested...
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...A Framework for Strategic Innovation A Framework for Strategic Innovation Blending strategy and creative exploration to discover future business opportunities ______________________________ by Derrick Palmer & Soren Kaplan Managing Principals, InnovationPoint LLC © InnovationPoint LLC www.innovation-point.com Page 1 A Framework for Strategic Innovation Authors Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a Managing Principal at InnovationPoint, where he works with organizations including Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Medtronic, Disney, Philips, PepsiCo, and numerous other global firms. Soren previously led the internal strategy and innovation group at Hewlett-Packard (HP) during the roaring 1990’s in Silicon Valley and was a co-founder of iCohere, one of the first web collaboration platforms for online learning and communities of practice. He is an Adjunct Professor within the Imagineering Academy at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands. He holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Psychology and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two daughters, and hypo-allergenic cat. Learn more about his book Leapfrogging by visiting www.leapfrogging.com. Derrick Palmer consults on strategic innovation with global, Fortune 1000 and medium-sized businesses. His areas of focus include corporate strategy, consumer-inspired new product innovation, designing best-in-class innovation processes, and...
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...Orientation One: Relation to the Environment (Lane, Maznevski, Distefano & Dietz, 2009). Family Education in China In a lifetime, family is the first school, in which parents are the first teachers for the children. In China, many parents care too much about whether the children have a promising future, a decent job, and a wholesome life. Based on these expectations, the majority of parents feel that their responsibility is to create as favorable conditions as possible so that the children do not have to worry about anything in the future. In addition, many families in China believe that children should not pitch in on any housework; the only thing they should do is homework, since parents regard the grades as the only indicator for future success. For instance, most Chinese students, including myself, are financially supported by parents. We do not have to work part- time in order to make a living; we drive to classes instead of riding bikes or taking school buses. Parents pay the tuitions, living, and other expenses on time as long as we let them know the number. Chinese Parents Influence and Control the Future of Their Children To most Chinese parents, children are the hope of the future, inheriting their remaining dreams. They do everything they can ensure a promising future for their children. Further on, Chinese parents usually replace children’s interests by their own wills and thoughts. They make decisions for children in terms of choosing majors in college...
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...Culture Change Paper Walmart is a global retailer with one of the most profitable business strategies on the planet. Walmart’s objective to offer the lowest prices to a diverse customer base has proven successful over several decades. Walmart began with a humble business model in the early 1960s. Sam Walton, original founder, wanted to provide people with the best prices possible. Sam Walton launched over a dozen locations to the public in the late 1960s. The profitable groundwork and strategy of every-day low prices spread rapidly through the next several decades. Throughout the 1990s, Walmart’s growth soared globally as they continued to facilitate a cost cutting strategy. America’s recent recession encouraged many low-income families to shop for Walmart’s low priced products. Walmart’s low prices may attract budgeting Americans, but their questionable operations are steering many others away. Walmart’s public perception is declining because of their negative organizational culture. Walmart’s employee wages are consistently below the American average, resulting in workers resorting to government aid. Discrimination lawsuits occur annually because of management’s stereotyping and poor leadership. Even Walmart’s ignorance to safe working conditions in other countries is beginning to surface in America’s media. Walmart’s leaders have attempted to address these issues, but ultimately failed to create a climate for change. Walmart’s future leadership must overcome...
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...CHAPTER 1 The Problem and Its Setting Today’s generation is growing up too fast because of the modern technology which people are enjoying and at the same time helpful in their everyday lives. The fact that most of the children today tend to choose staying at home playing computer games or any other gadgets instead of playing outside, making friends with other children and exercise their mind and body which is very helpful to their health. One of the main reasons why students are attracted to computers is because of computer games. Modern technology is now very accessible to people especially students, they can easily go to computer shops near the school to play and most of them spend the whole time with it and forgot their responsibilities as a student which is one of the disadvantages of playing video games. There are also good things that a student can benefit in playing computer games because there is also other types of video games that are educational which can help them enlighten their minds, discover new knowledge,improve their thinking skills, stuffs that they think it never existed and experience new things that they have never encountered in their entire life. Educational computer games can enhance students’ motivation to learn, but only depends on how they play. Some students get hooked on to playing computer games so much so that they tend to lose interest in other more important...
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...Internationalization versus Globalization Multinational Enterprises Exporting Licensing/Franchising Strategic Alliances Joint Ventures Wholly-Owned Subsidiary Emerging Economies Developed Economies Universalizers versus Particularists World-systems Diversity of Cultures Global Mindset III. HYPERGLOBALIZATION Conflicting Goals Environmental Consequences Social Consequences Extended Product Responsibility Subsidies and Preferential Treatment of the Corporation Lack of Accountability Misaligned Incentives Short-term Profits Money versus Spirituality Borderless Economy Liberalization Conflicting Goals Misaligned Incentives Short-term Solutions versus Long-Term Growth Protection of Natural Resources Lies, Damn Lies, & Statistics Standardization versus Adaptation Regional Focus New Paradigm IV. GLOBALIZATION AND STRATEGY Global versus Multidomestic Strategies Service Industry Common Global Misunderstandings Developing and Implementing a Global Strategy Organizational Culture V. GLOBALIZATION AND PUBLIC POLICY Approaches to Economic Organization Historical Review Determinants of Economic Organization Corporate Political Strategy International Environmental Policy Performance Requirements Global...
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...Research Report DCSF-RR051 Independent Learning Literature Review Bill Meyer, Naomi Haywood, Darshan Sachdev and Sally Faraday Learning and Skills Network Research Report No DCSF-RR051 Independent Learning Literature Review Bill Meyer, Naomi Haywood, Darshan Sachdev and Sally Faraday Learning and Skills Network The views expressed in this report are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department for Children, Schools and Families. © Learning and Skills Network 2008 ISBN 978 1 84775 239 0 Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Executive summary...............................................................................2 Introduction .........................................................................................10 Policy context ......................................................................................12 Methodology........................................................................................14 Defining independent learning.............................................................15 Key elements of independent learning ................................................21 Models of independent learning ..........................................................25 Skills required for independent learning ..............................................28 How teachers can promote independent learning ...............................32 How schools can promote independent learning.............
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