Description: SkyRunner is a dune buggy and a power parachute in one. After almost three years in development, it is on track to hit the market later this year. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Jan 31, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/pf/2014/01/31/latt-skyrunner-flying-dune-buggy.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: Which target market would you focus on if you were in charge… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Part 1 Business in a Global Environment
Building engineering toys for girls
Description: GoldieBlox CEO Debra Sterling talks about what makes her toy company different and why she created GoldieBlox, an engineering toy for girls. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Jan 30, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/01/30/n-goldieblox-engineers-toys.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: How is this toy designed for girls rather than boys? Do you think these sorts of toys should… Read more »
After 100 Years, the Shaving Industry Is Finally being Disrupted
Description: The Gillette-Schick duopoly better watch out for Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s, which promise more convenience and less cost to do what men hate most in the morning. Don’t look now, bros but your morning routine is getting disrupted—in a good way. Source: TheDailyBeast.com Date: Jan 24, 2014 Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/24/after-100-years-the-shaving-industry-is-finally-being-disrupted.html Questions for discussion: Describe… Read more »
Retailers Ask: Where Did Teenagers Go?
Description: Luring young shoppers into traditional teenage clothing stores has become a tough sell. When 19-year-old Tsarina Merrin thinks of a typical shopper at some of the national chains, she doesn’t think of herself, her friends or even contemporaries. “When I think of who is shopping at Abercrombie,” she said, “I think it’s more of… Read more »
Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
Description: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he’s confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May. It’s also been a decade since his first date with Priscilla Chan, now his… Read more »
Bruno Mars’ big bucks
Description: He sang ‘I wanna be a billionaire’ and he’s working hard to make it happen. Bruno Mars is nominated for four Grammy awards and is performing at the Super Bowl. Not bad for a four-year-old Elvis impersonator from Hawaii. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Jan 24, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/01/24/n-bruno-mars-big-bucks-super-bowl-show-and-four-grammy-nominations.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: How… Read more »
Big game, big deductions for businesses
Description: New York City will get a $550 million economic boost from next weekend’s Super Bowl and corporations will get big deductions for their lavish spending. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Jan 24, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/01/24/big-game-big-spending-big-tax-breaks.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: What are the benefits to corporations that send employees or clients to the Super Bowl?… Read more »
Rival says Uber played dirty
Description: On-demand taxi service Gett accuses Uber of ordering 100-plus cars and canceling them. CNNMoney investigates. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Jan 24, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/01/24/t-uber-accused-dirty-tactics-gett-car-service-taxi.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: What do you make of this accusation against Uber? Do you think it might be initiated by employees and not sanctioned by Uber management? If… Read more »
How Imgur Became a Photo-Sharing Hit
Description: There is a website where cats and dogs rule the day, profanities are common, and clips from Lord of the Rings movies can be used to convey universal sentiments like the joy of revenge. All right, there are plenty of websites like that, but this one is more popular than those of the Weather… Read more »
The 30-Year-Old Macintosh and a Lost Conversation With Steve Jobs
Description: On a late-November day in 1983, Steven Levy, then a freelance journalist for Rolling Stone, got into a car outside 10460 Bandley Drive, in Cupertino, Calif. As the vehicle sped away from the white office building, Mr. Levy looked at the driver and said hello to Steven P. Jobs, then the young, spry co-founder of… Read more »
