final blog post

Steven Copeland

12/17/11

Business & Society

                                                                      Final Blog Post

                     I personally believe that I learned a significant amount of information about Business and the other aspects that come with it. I learned the most about entrepreneurship and what it takes to start and run a business. Out of all of my classes, I can safely say that I obtained the most information from this course. This course has benefited me for the near future. I have learned a lot about the business world such as sole proprietorship. It takes a lot of time, dedication, a hard work ethic, motivation, and also knowledge. Running your own business can be very difficult, but you can become wealthy and prosperous in the future and all the hard work you put in to your business will be worth it.

                     I found the projects to all be helpful and was also an easy way to learn and obtain new information. I learned about famous entrepreneurs and also how to work well with others to complete a project and complete it well. Another aspect of this class that really stuck was S.W.O.T. which is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and also threats. I believe this is the basics for a company and can make or break a business. The business world is always changing especially now a days. It is important to make sure that you are always focused on the task at hand. I took this class because I someday would like to have a job in the near future dealing with Business management. This class without a doubt was a great start to learning the different aspects of the field and learning what it takes to be successful in the business world. You really need to love what you do in order to start a business. If you do not love what you do, you will get nowhere with your idea yet alone in life. It is important to find a need and fill it and also stick with your idea or your gut instinct. Business and Society was a great class. I benefited from it a significant amount.

Business and Society

Gabrielle Sartell
Business & Society
Homework 10
12/14/11

Taking Business and Society was an experience I will take with me for years to come. I have learned a lot of interesting and valuable material that will come in handy in my future. Topics that we discussed in class this semester are the five key components to having a successful business, entrepreneurship, management, and SWOT. One topic that caught my interest in Business and Society was Entrepreneurship. By reviewing the chapters and listening to young entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerburg, entrepreneurship was a topic that made me have faith in myself. We covered a lot that had to do with entrepreneurship and I learned a lot along the way. I learned that in order to be successful you have to take risks. Mark took a risk and succeeded. He was devoted to this website called Facebook, and worked very hard to develop this online social website. I also learned the basic traits which is having an idea then developing that idea into a billion dollar corporation. I learned that it doesn't matter the age, if you have an idea take that idea and go with it. You are never to young or old to follow your dreams. If you love what you do, you will never have to work a day in your life. When you follow your idea, you will succeed in many ways. There are many talented people in the world, but those who don’t follow their dreams ever succeed. Entrepreneurs have a lot of good characteristics. They all are devoted, energetic, action- orientated and self- nurturing. As stated in the book “You must believe in your idea even when no one else does, and be able to replenish your own enthusiasm" (pg 148). When you are your own boss you have to be confident in your company and your employees. You have to believe in yourself and staff if you want to be successful. Entrepreneurs develop their idea to reality. Another important characteristic to have in order to be a successful entrepreneur is energetic. If you have a positive attitude at work, your employers will be positive which equals success for your business. Your employees look up to the boss. By being positive and energetic your consumers will be coming back for more. "You must be emotionally, mentally, and physically, able to work long and hard” (pg. 148). The knowledge that I have learned through being an successful entrepreneur will defiantly help me in my professional life. Success is in the palm of my hands. By staying determined and following my dream, I will never give up on my goals and ideas. Since I’m at Nichols College, I learned that this is the perfect opportunity to take risks and develop a future for myself. I learned a lot in this class and will continue to follow my dream no matter how many risks I have to face in order to accomplish my dream.

Links relating to Entrepreneurship:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b-IoiFksgk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTBbxKkYTRw

Course Evaluation

In Business and Society I learned a lot about Enturpership by listening to all the people that made it by starting with so little. Even though these people started with little they could do it because they had the drive and made people believe in them. The most interesting Enturper has to be the Mark Zuckerberg we didn't go over him in the book but someone did a presentation on him. Mark was just a college student but he wanted to make it big and came up with facebook and now its on of the most popular sites on the web. All of the presentations really helped me see that if you have a dream to do something than you can do it and that was the most interesting part. The group project helped me learn how to work with other people and how to spilt the work evenly. All these things will help me in the real word because if I need to work with someone I will be able to know how to. I don't want to start my own business but if one of my friends is trying to I could give them pointers.

Another thing I learned was the four functions of management. Planning, organizing, leading and controlling they help with learning about a business and how to take care of it. This shows how managers plan out what they want their employees to be working on during their time at work. Organizion shows how the managers organize their company and what they should do to keep everything from fall apart. The leading part of being a manager is very big because it shows that you have the leadership skills to take control of the situation and give everyone else direction. Controlling is important people not too controlling because in a good business the managers let their employees make some choices its all about controlling what should be going on. These functions will help me because I plan on being a band manager and these points are what I need to be able to manage the right way.

I liked this course because I do want to be in the managing part of business and it gives me great idea's to work up to what I want to do.

There are some news worthy articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/index.html

There are about 4 or 5 different articles on this page ^

A Semester In Review

During this semester in Business and Society I have learned many things about the subject and myself. Such things I have learned about my self is that to become an entrepenuer takes a lot of thought and skill. I assumed that one could just enter a field, and take it on full force just because they wanted to, and become succesful but this was not the case. To become an entrepenuer one must have a set plan and be able to execute it within their guidelines. Without this its as if the individual is setting themselves up for failure, this is one of the things I remember when enrolling in this course. I also learned about S.W.O.T. SWOT is Strength Weakness Oppurtunities and Threats. The reasoning for me remembering this is it can be applied for most things in life whether its sports or or jobs. For the most part, I also beleive that this class helped my public speaking just with the two presentations. I'm a very talkative person, but at the same time presentations are one of my weak points. When getting the rubric handed back to me I understood what I had to do to fix myself and to better my self. Lastly, I understand what it now takes to pursue a career in business, although this is not where i see my self going in life, i do understand what it takes and maybe later down in life if the oppurtunity presents its self i might make a move to run and own a business. Thanks to this semester i also got to learn more about Nike and the two entrepenuers i did my presentation on. I know that with out this class i wouldnt of found any of this information on my own. Tyler Perry and Steven Spielberg were the two entrepenuers i did my presentation on and the information gathered suprised me. I found out so much that i never knew. All in all I thouroughly enjoyed this first semester at Nichols College and Business and Society. I strongly recommend this class to anyone who is interested in learning the basic priniciples of Business.

Final

In Business and Society I have learned a lot about myself and a lot about how businesses are ran. What I have learned about myself is that I had no idea about businesses when I thought I knew enough to run one. The only thing that I knew a descent about businesses is sports bars and I also knew the best way to keep employees happy and work harder. The sports bar that I worked at worked us hard but they would give us rewards and the environment in the kitchen was always positive. But the things I learned in the class were endless. One thing that sticks out in my head is S.W.O.T. It stands for strengths, weakness, Opportunities and Threats. With this now stored in my knowledge, I know what to do if I wanted to start my own business. I would know the right things to run a successful business. Another thing that I have learned which as also thought I knew a lot was just general ethics. I thought working hard and doing the right thing you would get treated right. But I was wrong; there are a lot of things behind the scenes about managers or business owners taking advantage of their workers. I guess there are very few people that are a good businessman and that are good to there employees. Another is from the entrepreneur project that we had to do for a class project with a friend. We had Tyler Perry and Steven Spielberg and we learned the type of personalities that they have. But the whole class also had the same personality. They were all self-motivators and if they did not reach their goal the first time, they would keep on trying until they succeeded. They also started out small and did the little jobs before they went big. This year in Business and Society has been an adventure and I have learned a lot to say the least. All the projects that we have done have been a huge help to my business knowledge and in taking the right steps to start one.

Course Reflection

Sean Coates

Professor Fleury-Lawson

Business and Society

12/13/11

Course Reflection

This semester in business and society I was enlightened by the ways of many entrepreneurs before me.   I learned the basic traits that took some people from just having an idea to starting multi-billion dollar corporations.  Hard work and determination can take you very far in life as shown by Nick Graham, Steve Ells, and Jake Burton.  You have to follow your dreams and focus on what you love.

I learned that the business world is constantly evolving and you have to stay extremely focused if you want your company to remain relevant.  Though everything we know is changing through technology, core business principals will always remain relevant.  Taking risks, understanding where to invest your time and money, or just general supply and demand will always be cornerstones of business.

Franchising really sparked an interest in me.  I know if takes a lot of money to get a franchise started but I feel like the rewards are tenfold.  You already have an established brand and a time tested product.  Those may be the two hardest things to come by when starting a new business by yourself. Through franchising businesses can expand greatly without having to directly oversee every branch.  They can franchise out some stores and still make revenue without having to do all the work.

I never realized how many parts there was to running a successful business.  You have to deal with so many different setbacks and the numerous people that you can encounter along the way.  You really have to love what you do if you are going to start your own business.  Just because you can make your own hours does not mean that you would be working all hours of the day.  Many people become consumed by their will to become successful.  Those are the people that really make a statement in the business world.

What I learned

Mike Bane

Business and Society

HW 10

12/13/11

Business and Society was a class that was put on my schedule as a required. But after a few weeks I started to really like it. I become a lot more interested in business after I saw how easy it is to be successful when you have a good plan and a good idea of your field. I learned so much about entrepreneurship and how to start your own business. After learning about this I realized this is what I want to do for my career. I want to start my own lacrosse club organization. After learning some key factors about starting a business I think one day this could become a reality.

The next thing I learned was franchising. I learned that franchising is a great way for someone to run their own business without coming up with their own idea. Franchising is mostly used in big business chains but maybe if my lacrosse organization is very successful then I could expand and have a few regions.

The last important thing I learned in this class was, Human Resources. Human Resources are a very important part of business because it helps run your business from the inside. It helps hire, train, and even fire people. More importantly Human Resources help your business run smoothly. It helps people in the business work out problems and issues that arise inside the business.

These three factors are things that are very helpful in the business world and things that I'm so glad I learned about in this class. I will take all of the lessons I have learned in this class and hope I can use them in my career. One day maybe I can look back at Business and Society and think it was my first and maybe most important business class I took at Nichols College.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTBbxKkYTRw