Last Day of Class

Hi all,

I just wanted to thank everyone for all of the great information that they posted on the blog this semester. I really enjoyed all of the articles, videos and websites that people found and suggested. I saved many of them so that I can refer to them in the future.

Best of luck to everyone and have a great summer!

~Angela

Protect your Invention or Product – Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright

This is a great article for small business owners on the important of protecting your product. It outlines the three different types of protection; patents, trademarks, and copyrights, tell you what each of them can do and how you get apply for one or each of them. There is also some information on overseas and international patents and trademarks.

~Angela

http://community2.business.gov/t5/Small-Business-Matters/Protect-your-Invention-or-Product-Patents-Trademarks-and/ba-p/2301;jsessionid=6D8C30D41C195E1149222EBA8CAE3AE5

Antinori: Keeping It All In The Family Family Has Run Wineries For 623 Years, With No Plans To Sell

Families, the poet Philip Larkin wrote, they mess you up. Only he used slightly stronger language. When it comes to family business, he was right on the money.

A recent survey found only 15 percent of family businesses survive past the second generation. If the whims of the market place don't get you, rivalry or old fashioned greed will.

Which makes the Antinori family of Italy all the more remarkable: as 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer first reported last fall, they've been in the same line of work for six centuries now.

The Antinoris make wine and the family story reads like a wine review - complex, stylish, sophisticated with a bouquet both elegant and earthy.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/10/60minutes/main4514254.shtml

Chapters 20-21 5 points

1. This article is from Edge Business Magazine. I talks about stragies for working with relatives in a family business.
http://edgebusinessmagazine.com/tag/family-business/


2. This article is written by Edward Hess, the founder of The Center For Entrepreneurship and Corporate Growth and the Values Based Leadership Institute. It's about keeping the family business in business.
http://www.smallbusinessnotes.com/interests/family/success.html


3. This article is by Henry Posters from the American Society For Quality. It discusses the importance of ethics in business.
http://www.asqsandiego.org/articles/ethics1.htm


4. This is article is from Ezine Articles. It is about unethical behavior in the workplace.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Unethical-Behavior-In-The-Workplace&id=954264


5. This article is from Harvard Business School. It discusses how corporate social responsibility rating can predict corporate social performance.
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5542.html

Chapter 20-21 5 points

family businesses makes strong bonds and drives a businesses performance. investors also look at family business as being more stable and willing to fund them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwUvWQyR9Vc&feature=PlayList&p=7B75392492010106&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=26

Family members need to have meetings about there business and the family itself. having an outsider might be a good idea and will help in the next generation of the business.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dK9N5YvA98

Hiring a senior staff member from outside the business can help the business grow and provide a look on how to do things that hasnt been seen before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh5CDcfX_cI

Ethical behavior is something that is needed at a business and needs to be enforced among a business.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-nz0kojLv8

this video goes over the business ethics and how to handle these issues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDPsSyaZNIw

Family:Good or Bad for Business?

This first video is a clip on the infamous Adidas company. This business is a family founded and run company. The video goes on to explain how the family coming together really help their company to be successful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQaSKDZAVAs


The link below provides not only text but also a video. These two resources are in the perspective of Jack Connors telling of the importance of management succession and much more. He relates his opinions to his own personal experiences and talks of the values shared...

http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jan2009/ca20090130_544017.htm


Paul Puckridge explains what succesion management planning is and how to go about it. He goes on to talk about how by having a plan such as this will allow a person/business to be taken more seriously and be given a new level of opportunity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txed8nYbc4I


Although very long, this video is very informative. Jeffrey Sachs, a professor at Columbia University, discusses the levels of ethical standards in business. The only downfall about this video is it does take him a bit to get to the information because it's basically a lecture he gave recored...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOlmr9hWnTk&feature=PlayList&p=14AFE0B8468ECAD8&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4


The article is about a person by the name of Pamela Hawley who is a global social entrepreneur. Pamela wants to make a social impact through the Web based marketplaces. Pamela started an organization called UniversalGiving which is a non-profit organization which collects donations and sends it to the project of the donator's choice...

http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/dec2008/ca20081224_387821.htm

Chapters 20 & 21 - Five Points of Interest

According to this article, family businesses have the traits to survive during these tough economic times. Since family businesses make up 80% of the worlds businesses, will they be the ones who can pull through in this recession?

http://www.pbn.com/detail/40521.html


Purchasing business insurance can be a confusing and costly experience for a business owner if they do not have the right information. This article does a great job of breaking down the different types of insurance a company may need and tells you what and when you need them.

http://businessinsure.about.com/od/insuringyourbusiness/tp/listtypesins.htm


Business Ethics magazine is a web based magazine that provides readers and business owners information and updates about business and ethics. One section I really liked was their ranking of the 100 Most Corporate Citizens which is a listing of companies and corporations that they deemed to be ethically and socially responsible.

http://www.business-ethics.com/


Many businesses and companies have started to cut back on their Social Corporate Responsibility because of the downturn in the economy, but according to this video that is a poor decision.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=businesses%20and%20social%20responsibilty&rls=com.microsoft:*&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv#q=businesses+and+social+responsibilty&rls=com.microsoft:*&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wv&start=20


Sexual Harassment is something that is still thriving in workplaces and companies all across the nation and the world. This website provides support to victims of sexual harassment in the workplace. It gives good information on what sexual harassment is, statistics about sexual harassment, liability information and tell the reader what to do if they have been sexually harassed.

http://www.sexualharassmentsupport.org/SHworkplace.html

~Angela