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An article was posted yesterday in the Financial Post discussing how social entrepreneurship is the answer to all the occupy Wall Street protester’s concerns. The protesters denounce big business and wonder at how the wealthy came to be so powerful. Social entrepreneurship takes big business and uses it for the common good. It actually takes the methods of […]
In a post by Yi-Wen Huang titled “China No Longer the World’s Factory”, he discussed how quality of life is on the rise in China and cheap labor will soon be not so cheap anymore. Many companies in Japan are moving their manufacturing facilities back to their home country. Interestingly enough, as the world sees […]
In a recent article from the Glob and Mail titled “Going For a Latte or Espresso…at Tim’s” the Canadian coffee and doughnut chain, Tim Hortons, announces its plan to redesign their stores. It will be adding bench seating, wireless internet connection, softer lighting and a new floor layout. The goal is to get customers to […]
On October 31, 2011 CBC posted an article that brought a lot of attention to Canada’s worthless mining watchdog agency that is supposed to be keeping companies accountable for their overseas businesses dealings. The problem is the investigations conducted by the agency are all voluntary and any company can refuse to participate. In Terry Lee’s blog […]
Since being first incorporated in 1998, Google has not stopped pushing the boundaries of what “just a search engine” can do. Of all the companies in the world I cannot think of a better company that embodies the definition of entrepreneurship. It started out as just a small company founded by two Stanford Phd students. Now, the […]
The huge environmental wave described in the book Green to Gold has crashed onto the business world over the past few years and has opened up an entirely new market, the business of being environmentally friendly. Corporations who have been manipulating their customers’ wants for years are now becoming the manipulated market. Organizations like 1% […]
The next modern word entering the dictionary, after google, is “Netflixed.” To be Netflixed is to disrupt a previously successful business model, at least it is according to Saul Kaplan’s article for CNN. Netflix’s model of paying a monthly flat-fee for unlimited mail-in movie rentals was extremely successful, until they changed. A business model has […]
Before the release of the iPad or Kindle, Apple and Amazon were unlikely competitors; according to business blogger Joe Castaldo, they still are. In his blog post, “Lighting a Fire Under Netflix” he discusses how Amazon’s new product, the Kindle Fire, won’t even compete against the Apple iPad 2 along with Amazon’s likelihood of buying […]
After today’s discussion on the Euro crisis, it got me thinking about if my dream of travelling to Europe would be affected.In the EU’s economic downturn tourism is actually an area that they can count on. It is one part of their economy that cannot be outsourced and does not fluctuate in international markets. It occured to me […]
I found a really interesting article about technology that most of us use everyday, Apple products. It discusses a mobile app that was banned from Apple’s app store just hours after it was released because it showed “the uglier side of electronics production.” The game has the player as an animated character and takes them […]