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100
This company was the subject of a recent New York Times article criticizing its workplace environment.
What is Amazon.com?
100
Any activity that seeks to provide goods and services to others while operating at a profit.
What is a business?
100
All the people who stand to gain or lose by the policies and activities of a business and whose concerns the business needs to address.
What are stakeholders? (they include customers, employees, suppliers, stockholders/owners, environmentalists, government leaders, etc.)
100
Governments can favor business by enacting policies like keeping taxes and regulations ______________
What is "low" or "to a minimum"?
100
The trend toward saving energy and producing products that cause less harm to the environment.
What is "greening"?
200
The process of establishing and maintaining contacts with key individuals and using those contacts to develop relationships that may help you develop professionally.
What is networking?
200
An organization whose goals do not include making a personal profit for its owners or organizers.
What is a nonprofit organization?
200
An organization whose goals do not include making a personal profit for its owners or organizers.
What is a nonprofit organization?
200
Everything from devices to software that make business processes more effective, efficient and productive.
What is technology?
200
Uber is currently facing a lawsuit in California by its drivers who claim they should be __________ instead of independent contractors.
What are employees?
300
A document that lists information an employer (or investor) would need to evaluate you and your background.
What is a resume?
300
The amount of money a business earns above and beyond what it spends for salaries and other expenses.
What is profit?
300
The chance an entrepreneur (or a corporation) takes of losing time and money on a business that may not prove profitable.
What is risk?
300
The amount of output you generate given the amount of input (e.g., hours worked).
What is productivity?
300
One way RedBox uses demographics to enhance its business is by using that information to determine the types of __________ in any given kiosk.
What are products? (DVDs, Blueray, video games)
400
A 30-60 second business description of what you do and why someone should work with you is known as this.
What is an "elevator pitch"?
400
The total amount of money a business takes in during a given period by selling goods and services.
What is revenue?
400
Contracting with other companies (often in other countries) to do some or all of the functions of a firm, like its production, accounting or customer service tasks.
What is outsourcing?
400
Giving frontline workers the responsibility, authority, freedom, training, and equipment they need to respond quickly to customer requests.
What is empowerment?
400
Bob, Steve and Kevin are this type of creatures.
What are Minions?
500
A person who risks time and money to start and manage a business.
What is an entrepreneur?
500
The #1 reason for failure mentioned by the founders of businesses that failed.
What is "no market need" or "no customer need" or selling a "solution in need of a problem"?
500
The resources used to create wealth -- Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship and Knowledge -- are known as the five _________ ___ _______________.
What are factors of production?
500
The statistical study of the human population with regard to its size, density and other characteristics such as age, race, gender, and income.
What is demographics?
500
The average cost of 30 selected industrial stocks, used to give an indication of the direction (up or down) of the stock market over time.
What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average (the Dow)?
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