I really like music that fills me with raw, epic emotion, but that doesn’t distract me with intelligible words. My favorite group is called Two Steps From Hell. A lot of the music they make creates images of battlefields and bloodied heroes. Sometimes, when I’m in a lighter mood, I turn to the old reliable:…

As a preface, this analysis will consider the events discussed from the perspective of someone from multiple years ago, not in the present. The same business principles of assessing the constraints caused by firms acting in opposition to social concerns will still be applied.           In 2012, Space X purchased a plot of land in…

In 2018, Kajaal Gupta and a team of artists released the app Liberate: My OCD Fighter on Google Play. This is an example of social entrepreneurship because Gupta, having recognized her own issue of dealing with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and hoping to remedy it for herself and for others, developed an accessible, pocketable, private…

Through this program, I simply want to improve upon all of my existing strengths and to develop new ones. One thing that I know I’ll be able to achieve is shaping my thinking into a multi-angled process. In all of our classes so far, there has been a repeated emphasis on considering a variety of…

Hello, my name is Taavi Herzog. I’m heading into my first semester at the University of Pittsburgh this Fall, although I’m getting a good jumpstart through the Haller Global Honors Fellowship this Summer. Specifically, I will be studying in the College of Business Administration. I plan to double-major in Finance and Marketing, but I’m also…

In my own opinion, the environment should be considered a stakeholder of every business. Perhaps not an important one for some organizations, but a stakeholder nonetheless. I’d like to address why I feel that Professor David Woodward was wrong in saying that “flora and fauna, the biosphere, mountain ranges and the oceans cannot themselves give…

Pitt Athletics lives and breathes vicariously through the athletic institutions of the University. Without teams and games and players to market, report on, and analyze, Pitt Athletics would have no base upon which to perform the myriad activities that augment the community’s connection with its sports programs. With that in mind, if the goal is…

Your Name: Taavi Herzog Focal Organization:  Identify the small business you will focus on in this post.  Briefly describe the business and its basic/underlying business model: In this post, I am going to discuss Chopstix LLC, a locally serving Kosher Chinese Takeout Restaurant in Teaneck, New Jersey. The basic business model is that customers place…