The United Nations was founded after the Second World War. Their propose is maintaining world peace and promoting common development. It is so hard for them to consider very little things. And we could also find that United Nations is a institution to solve problem, most of their work is to solve the problem which are hard for the local government. This feature means problems could not always been figured out completely and immediately. Unpaid is another thing which is different others. 

However, the social entrepreneurship’s aim is to give the poor an opportunity to change the quantity of their life. Give them money and teach them how to run their own business. This is the businessmen’s way. In the video we could know the Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus saw he just lent 7 dollars to the 40 people, and could make all these people to support themselves. So he made 5 billion dollars in loans all over the world to make the poor live better. Arc is the same, Sauder students have chance to help the African people run their companies. At the same time, the students and alumni could practice their skill which learned in university. Nothing could be better than practicing what they have learn in the real world and solving the real problem.

We could not always donate money because that is not a correct way to save their life. Here is an old saying in China:”Teaching them how to fish is better than giving them fish.”

I searched for a piece of blog named “The Seven Secrets to Sue’s Success Selling on eBay” on the internet written by Shana Champion. Today is the 11th of  November, a special day for both Canada and China. Chinese people always call today is the “Single’s day” and many merchants would like to use this opportunity to take advantage of it. Tianmao, a brand belongs to Alibaba which is like “Chinese eBay”, would give the biggest discount among many of the online stores today. It is so crazy that the volume sale reached 1 billion yuan (a bout 182 million dollars) in the first two minutes. The most incredible news is in the 38 minutes, the volume sale increased to 10 billion yuan ( about 1.82 billion dollars)!

The blog mainly talked about some tips how Sue make her business successful. Hiring help, getting organized, working with a professional photographer, investing in listing software, employing excellent customer service and never sweating returns. Well organized and excellent service are always the most important ways to keep customers. Photos are so important that they could affect the consumers decisions. Sometimes we could see some funny pictures that the clothes they bought online seems so different from the ones  models wearing which the sellers provided. What sellers should do basically is sell all their stuffs.

I came across Yi-fang‘s post named “Google Inc.- The Ideal Work Place” which focus on the importance of the work places’ environment.

Yi-fang mentioned in her blog that we have learned about the company called Zappos which treat their stuff like family members. Zappos’ CEO does not have his own office and just work near their employees everyday. What Google does is more humanized, they provide their employees with slides, outdoor activity areas, nap pods, and much more. If I was one of their stuff, I have to say this kind of organizational culture will make me never to consider about job-hopping. 

What I am considering is the reason why Google and Zappos are famous for their organizational culture is that there are still only a few firms work like that. The environment of Google could not be copied easily because that will cause a huge amount of cost. The firm should have enough economic power to build the facilities and be attractive enough to their stuff to work for them even there are on strict rules. Zappos is an example for the similar organizational culture but a simpler one. Their operators need to work in a relaxing environment which could keep them a positive mood. Because they are key elements of the quantity of after-sale. But the others may do not need to be so relaxed during the work-time. I believe the efficiency could be developed if the environment was more strict. Be strict do not means worse treating.

Mark recently released a blog named “Big Brother Marketing”

As one of most brilliant group members who can always think out some great ideas for our assignment. I believe his blog could be impressive. Big Brother Marketing, an attractive title make me want to read the whole passage. I used to consider the” big brother marketing” a new concept about marketing strategy before I Google it.

Mark has mentioned, information that could influence a company’s strategy greatly, is so important for the companies nowadays. Huge companies like Google and Facebook have their own individual profile of the users. This kind of advantage make Google and Facebook to be able to find their target audience. On the contrary, small companies, who do not have that ability, prefer to purchase their target market’s structure’s information from them.

However, in my opinion, whether the users, who use Facebook and Google, want the Internet companies to sell their information is the most significant problem. I remember NSA’s widespread surveillance network was a famous business ethics issue happened in 2013. That represented that users did not want their information to be given away. Although the purchase can help the small firms to save a lot of money and time on research, Facebook and Google should make an announcement about this kind of business will not have invasion of users’ privacy. and see the feedback . The make the decision whether should they get benefit from it.

The more and more powerful smartphones make people’s live much easier than before. Almost everything could be done on the smartphones. Nowadays, an increasing number of hotels want their guests to be able to unlock their rooms with their phones.

In September, Hyatt Hotel and Resorts started testing mobile keys at one of its hotels in New York City, a pilot it expects to wrap up by early 2015. Hilton Worldwide will start testing the keys as well and will finish it at the same time as Hyatt. However, there are still some challenges are waiting for them to solve. The biggest one is the convenience trumps security. No matter who stay in hotels, security must be the most significant factor for them to consider about. Meanwhile, investing in a technology that might become obsolete or never take off is one of the risk hotels face in building a mobile key program. The main reason of these hotels want to try to test the new key is a lot of people hoping to skip the front desk. The action will make the checking in process more convenience, but the inputs of funds and technology support make it not easy to allow all the hotel to do that in a short time.

Basic on my own experience, I did not feel checking in and out at front desk are something make me feel bad. And I seldom need to wait for a long time to check in. So in my opinion, the high-end hotels could use this kind of system to promote their reputation and higher the quantity of service. The low-end, even middle-end are no need to do that in recent years.