Women and their route to success: could the barriers be completely broken down? Ginna Munoz Molloy College Abstract Undoubtedly women have made extraordinary strides from the standpoint of their careers. It is now possible to see a woman running companies and occupying the most prestigious positions worldwide. However, the representation of women in business is still low in comparison with men. On one hand, many researches provide evidences of the existence of different types of discrimination
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Conceptualizing and measuring experience quality: the customer’s perspective Ting-Yueh Changa∗ and Shun-Ching Horngb aGraduate Institute of Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Management, Southern Taiwan University, No. 1, Nantai Street, Yung-Kang City, Tainan 71005, Taiwan, Republic of China; bGraduate Institute of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, 64, Section 2, ZhiNan Road, Wenshan District, Taipei 11605, Taiwan, Republic of China (Received 14 October 2008; final version
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Thinking It Over 1. What lessons about being a successful entrepreneur did you learn from Ryan and Aaron? Start at any age. Self-directed, action-oriented, and energetic with tolerance to uncertainty. Acting on an idea that is in demand and filling it by taking risks. Knowing risks by analysis of risks. Although not being extremely profitable in the first year, they continued to market and drive their business to success, matching risk with profit. Having a diverse workforce to handle
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Rachel Maddow vs. Bill O’ Rielly In August 2008, MSNBC announced The Rachel Maddow Show would replace Verdict with Dan Abrams in the network's 9 p.m. slot the following month. Following its debut, the show topped Countdown as the highest rated show on MSNBC on several occasions. After being on air for more than a month, Maddow's program doubled the audience that hour. Early reviews for her show were mostly positive. The Los Angeles Times writer Matea Gold stated Maddow "finds the right formula on
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Renewable Energy! Do you know what is a renewable energy is? First you should know what energy is ! What is energy! An energy is a capacity or the abilty to do a work. What is a renewable energy? A Renewable energy is an energy that can be renewed or be used again also it might be like it is recylcled ,the main point is it releases less cabondioxide and other greenhouse gasses, which is very good for the envoriment and it prevents global warming too! There is Non Renewable energy too, which
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Week Two: Checkpoint – Environmental Factors In order for an organization to achieve optimal function, they want to make the most of their surrounds and environments. Four external environmental factors are the economy, the government, the legal aspects and technological advances that are being made. The six internal environmental factors are the employees, distributors, shareholders, suppliers, partners and labor supply. All of these factors complement each other into a “well oiled machine”
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range of activities including the creation of organizations (Gartner, 1988), the carrying out of new combinations (Schumpeter, 1934), the exploration of opportunities (Kirzner, 1973), the bearing of uncertainty (Knight 1921), the bringing together of factors of production (Say, 1803), and others (See Long, 1983). The outline below presents some authors definitions of entrepreneurship and attempts to summarize these viewpoints into a more meaningful whole. Richard Cantillon (circa 1730); Entrepreneurship
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economic activities. • A continuous process of economic development. • An ingredient to economic development. • Essentially a creative activity or an innovative function. • A risk taking factor which is responsible for an end result. • Usually understood with reference to individual business. • The name given to the factor of production, which performs the functions of enterprise. • Creates awareness among people about economic activity. • Generates Self-employment and additional employment WHY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
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Gross Domestic Product , Net Factor Income from Abroad and Gross National Product 1st Qtr 2000 - 4th Qtr 2010 (in million PhP) Period | At Current Prices | At Constant 1985 Prices | | GDP | NFIA | GNP | GDP | NFIA | GNP | 2005 | 5,444,038 | 447,145 | 5,891,183 | 1,211,452 | 108,548 | 1,320,000 | Q1 | 1,234,383 | 100,221 | 1,336,605 | 284,063 | 25,239 | 309,303 | Q2 | 1,316,400 | 112,436 | 1,428,836 | 297,426 | 27,429 | 324,855 | Q3 | 1,334,509 | 107,281 | 1,441,790 | 292,665 | 25,680
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Leadership at its greatest Potential An important phil Dr.Woodard 07/21/2011 “Vision without execution is Hallucination” * Thomas Edison A leader is someone that has a vision, a well thought out vision. It is a person that actually took the time to plan out their work and make things happen. Leaders see a problem that needs to be fixed or a goal that needs to be achieved. It may be something that no one else sees or simply something that no one else wants to tackle. Whatever it is, it
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