Business snippets by a first year BCom student
Emily’s blog post caught my eye because I don’t think I would ever want to pay $4 for a milkshake… I then realized that her blog post was about Starbucks, an ever-successful coffee company that has essentially dominated the coffee industry. The “milkshake” is a Frappuccino, a delicious drink that I buy often on scorching summer […]
In my Business Fundamentals class yesterday, Janice Cheam, founder and CEO of Energy Aware, spoke about how she sped along the road to entrepreneurship. It was very inspiring to hear that it all began with an entrepreneurial course in her fourth year at the Sauder School of Business. Working with a few other students, Cheam […]
In Bob Sutton’s blog Work Matters, he comments on the The New York Times interview with the CEO of Citrix, Mark Templeton. What really strikes him is when Templeton speaks about the relation between hierarchy and respect: “You have to make sure you never confuse the hierarchy that you need for managing complexity with the […]