McCombs School of Business

degree is in Psychology and I have experience in social work. I have often wondered if I could go into business for myself using my degrees and if so how. I have had trouble finding employment using my degrees, so I decided to add a second masters degree in business and still hope that one day I can go into business for myself and not have to work for a school system. If I were to open a business today it would be an employment agency that helped people with college degrees find full time…

William H. Harrison, MBA, PMP is the owner and founder of West Arlington Consulting Group. Will is a highly experienced, results-driven project manager, with over 13 years of experience, who has worked within a wide range of businesses and industries. He has led large-scale and complex initiatives for a diverse array of companies, including Humana, Deloitte, FBI, Fannie Mae and the United States Military. Will most recently completed work on a major process improvement project for Comcast…

I am very thankful that I got chance to take this subject which granted me to grow up in a way few other educational skills have. Before starting this subject, I thought I am an IT student, so I do not need to study about this MBA subject. But after looking at subject outline of LB:5205 , I found that this subject defines the relations between individuals, people and some types of organizations, and interpersonal relations between different people in the workplace including groups and teams.…

THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, SBA SBA was founded through the Small Business Act of July, 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government of the United States of America. Its mission is to help the Americans initiate, build and grow businesses. It aids, counsels, assists and protects the interests of small businesses, maintains free competitive enterprise and strengthens the United States’ overall economy. According to SBA, small businesses are crucial to the US economic recovery…

(MICRO ANALYSIS) Porter's Five Forces is Harvard Business School’s Competitive Position Analysis. It was developed as a simple framework for assessing and evaluating the competitive strength and position of a business organization (Porter, 1980). The base of the theory is the concept which consists from five forces that determine the density of competition and market’s allurement. Five forces of Porter help to determine where power lies within a business situation. It also can help to…

The same organizational practices implemented at the beginning of the business are not appropriate in this stage, where OCB as an already successful organization (age of the organization [2]), is trying to grow further in a new sector. Throughout the years, company’s size grew as well as the number of patients served (Size of the organization [2]) and that fact dictated the need for a more structured process of operations. The company, failed in this phase to recognize the upcoming needs for a…

themselves as entrepreneurs dream of quitting their jobs and going into business for themselves; whether it’s a bed and breakfast, a bookstore, or even “… launching a restaurant and spending their days surrounded by great food and drink.” Johnson poses the question “But what’s it like to actually do it?” and evaluates the dream two entrepreneurs, Diana Dixon and Thomas Sergio, had with vastly different…

If you google Big Data you will notice big corporations like IBM, SAS, Oracle providing enterprise solutions with punch lines “Transform Your Business” and “Big Data Can Generate Big Brainstorms” promising business growth. The reality behind investing in Big Data analytics is still hidden. Today we have the tools to analyze massive amount of data but we still lack the expertise to derive correlations from it. In the public realm finding relation between health and air pollution can be an example…

“One hires the best consultants on airfield layout, noise impacts, terminal layout, on-site roadways, off-site roadways, cost estimating, financial analysis, and forecasting,” observed DIA administrator Gail Edmond. “They brainstorm and generate as many alternate layouts as possible.” Alternatives were discussed and eliminated at periodic joint working sessions, and a technical subcommittee was organized to gather input from the eventual airport users, airlines, pilots, and the FAA. “Everybody…

Nantucket Harbor and expanded their floating business to include making fresh juice drinks which customers seemed to love. This prompted the two friends to open Allserve General Store on Nantucket’s Straight Wharf. Other stores in Nantucket began selling their juices and they sold 8,000 cases the first year and 20,000 the following year (Harvard Business School, 2000). While the two friends started the business on what seems to be a whim and with no real business plan or model, they did…