For a weekend blog post outside of class, it is a nice opportunity to reflect on your personal and professional development goals for the program. For me, whenever I take on a new project, I find motivation in thinking about how the project will push my personal intellectual development and provide me with professional experience…

Majoring in Business – Intellectual Benefits: When I am really getting into studying or writing a paper, I listen to music that pushes me to think and to sustain this effort over time. What is your playlist (or other form of art or music) that puts you into this type of zone? What are you…

Shared Value – People/Planet/Profit: The shared value approach to analysis for business decision-makers has a conceptual focus through perspectives like the “Triple Bottom Line” – in which a manager reviews how a business model addresses issues of People, Planet and Profit. Based on what you see in the 55 second video on Thread International, how…

The Natural Environment is a Stakeholder of Business Actors: Based on what you see in the first 4:40 of the Pittsburgh video, how is the natural environment a stakeholder of business actors? Remember – stakeholders affect and are affected by a business actor’s activities. The environment was a huge stakeholder of business actors when the…

Micah Toll – Student Entrepreneur:  Based on what you see in the 5:36 video on Micah, how does his background and training as an undergraduate engineering student influence his entrepreneurial activities (i.e. how is an engineering student like Micah a good fit for an independent business-related activity)? Micah invented a revolutionary material while still an…