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AdamMielnik
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| Name: | Adam Mielnik | | Location: | New York |
| Date registered | 09.22.2013 |
| Date of birth: | 22. January 1992 |
| Last online: | Tue Nov 19, 2013 11:30 am |
| Sex: |  male |
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11.19.2013 |
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Tue Nov 19, 2013 2:05 am | jump to post
The two readings for this week share a common theme and emphasize the importance of investing in entrepreneurship. Both the chapter titled “Reluctant Entrepreneurs” and “The Parable of the Black Sheep” take on a similar approach to addressing the issue of poverty and lack of upwards mobility in the lower class. The chapters point out the shockingly high number of poor business owners compared to the proportion those actually attempt to grow their business. However, the tones used by the authors...
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11.12.2013 |
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Tue Nov 12, 2013 4:42 am | jump to post
In the chapter from Novogratz’s book, she discusses an innovative take on philanthropy and how she was able to take these ideas and make them a reality. Rather than just give out charity grants, she tried to incorporate business concepts into philanthropy. Her goal was to build greater transparency and accountability which meant that she would focus on entrepreneurs with real marketable ideas. She also stressed the importance of back and forth communication between the poor who were viewed as c...
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11.04.2013 |
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Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:17 am | jump to post
I was always under the impression that Fair Trade was always the best option to ensure social justice for indigenous people. My past beliefs were only strengthened by what we learned about in the class from the exploitation of people in the Congo in the Coltan trade or the use of child labor in the cocoa industry. However, Sarah Besky has provides us with an example in which this is not the case. In “Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade Futures,” Besky shows that the fair trade framework can sometimes...
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10.21.2013 |
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Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:40 am | jump to post
The reading titled “Game Playing: Rethinking Power and Empowerment” focused on defining empowerment, the association of power with business, and the distinctions between different types of power. Hutchen defines empowerment as “a force exerted by an individual or group as a capacity to produce change and an affecting and transforming power but not a controlling power.” As defined by her, someone who is empowered does not really have absolute control over the wellbeing of another human being. Th...
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10.07.2013 |
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Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:49 am | jump to post
Tonight’s reading, titled “Harnessing Entrepreneurial Energy,” proves that it is possible to steer clear of business as usual and it in some cases more efficient. The CEO of Root Capital, Will Foote, actually started off as a Wall Street banker. He abandoned his respectable position to try to expand banking services to those who need it most. He created a microfinance institution that provides loans to underprivileged communities that are often neglected by commercial banks. His experience remi...
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09.30.2013 |
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Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:11 am | jump to post
The statistics in “A Brilliant Idea” were thought provoking. The statistics help put the struggles of living in a first world country into perspective. In the world there are over 1.4 billion people who are living below the World Bank’s poverty line and make an average of $1.25 per day. Another fact that stood out was that over 40% of the world’s population is living on less than $2 a day.
That means that almost 3 billion people struggle to get by on less than the price of a coffee in NYC. The...
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09.23.2013 |
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Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:27 am | jump to post
The book titled Fair Trade: A Human Journey shows the importance of reducing the exploitation of people in third world countries. It was unfortunate to see the level of poverty that millions of people live under in order for people in industrialized to have access to luxury items at low costs. Items such as chocolate, diamonds and smart phones might make are lives easier or more enjoyable, but they do not play a crucial role in our survival. This makes this exploitation even more disturbing. It...
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