1- What is the impact of Leadership on employees’ decision making ?
2- Select and answer TWO question of your choice from within the Equity Exercises attached. Do not answer with multiple choice, answer fully written.
3- Go to www.investopedia.com/university/beginner, where there is an article on “Investing 101: Introduction.” Read the article and explain what is says about risk tolerance.
4- Which is the real positioning of the following brands: LOreal, Red Bull, Starbucks, Coca Cola.
5- Watch this (https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/?CR_CC=200470741&WT.mc_ID=DynGB_en_us_SEM_GOOG&DYNCRM-SEARCH&WT.srch=1 ) demo for an overview of their CRM application. How could you use Microsoft CRM to help a start-up business grow and increase sales? Give an example of start-up businesses that could be using this Microsoft CRM
6- It is clear that a ‘new’ kind of organization – the Social Enterprise – is developing apace. But as yet, there are few countries which actually recognise these in law or in practice. Watch any three of the TED Talks on Social Entrepreneurship and consider (any of) the following questions:
What attracted you to these three talks in particular?
Bearing mind the weaknesses of current governance structures, what kind of structure would you recommend for such enterprises?
What lessons can be learned from Social Enterprises that could be applied in your organization?
How would you design an ‘ethical’ compensation scheme for the directors and staff of a social enterprise?
How do you see the future development of this “4th Sector”?
7- Find / select an example of an organization which is implementing the concept of the Circular economy and briefly describe its activities (provide a link to its website if possible).
Why did you select this organization?
How generative is the business model, ie: to what extent can the model be replicated in other countries / fields of business?
Is there anything your own organization could do (better) to develop a circular economy?
8- Present the differences between the Academic and Business Writing
