BUS 105 Individual Assignment - Allison Wilkes

I chose to interview Courtney Noal as my role model. I chose Courtney because she is a great person to look up to and is very responsible and professional. Courtney is a Senior at Chatham University and is a studying for as an Arts and Management major while double minoring in Marketing and Museum Studies. Courtney graduated in 2015 from Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School and began Chatham in the fall of 2015. At Chatham Courtney is a very involved student. She is the President of the Chatham Marketing Association (CMA)  and helps with the Bonner Leader program. Courtney has been the president of CMA for the past two school years, before that she served as the VP of Social Impact. Her sophomore and junior year she worked for the Pittsburgh Center for Arts. This past summer Courtney interned for Arts Altoona, an organization working to bring arts into the Blair County Area. Currently, Courtney is interning in the Learning and Visitor Department at the Frick Museum. As she is ...

Allison Wilkes September 22, 2018 Professor Chung IA01 Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition I chose an article written by the Stanford Social Innovation Review. This article focused on what it meant to be a “social entrepreneur” and the distinctions to be made between being a social entrepreneur, social activist, social service providers and just an entrepreneur. This article broke down what it means to be an entrepreneur, much like the book did in the chapter two reading. The article talks about the characteristics that make a person and entrepreneur and how they become successful in their tactics. The article lists opportunity sensing, out-of-the-box thinking, and determination as the three main characteristics that are required in an entrepreneur. Similar skills are also listed in the book as being the starting points for entrepreneurship, “innovation, running a business, and risk taking.” In the article it tells stories of famous entrepreneurs we know of...