In her book, "Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America", who are "the pigs"?
What are certain CEOs?
100
The Gates Foundation, and the Northwest AIDS Alliance are examples of this type organization.
What are non-profit organizations?
100
An expression which means that you rise from poverty to wealth.
What is "from rags to riches"?
100
Many Americans prefer to
use this phrase rather than the word
“capitalism”.
What is free enterprise?
200
This person visited the U.S. in the 1830’s and made many insightful observations about America.
Who is Alexis de Tocqueville?
200
The entrepreneur business hero is similar to this type of hero from the frontier days.
What is a rugged individualist?
200
Corrupt business leaders in the latee1800’s were called this.
What were "robber barons"?
200
Some Americans are suspicious of government because it holds a __________________ of power.
What is a monopoly?
300
A popular author who wrote about poor people who become wealthy and successful.
What is Horatio Alger?
300
The _________ company is notorious as one of the worst examples of corporate executives taking huge sums of money, lying to stockholders, mismanaging the business, and treating employees cruelly.
What is Enron?
300
A phrase meaning that someone is not receiving their fair share of something.
What is "getting the short end of the stick"?
300
A company that sends manufacturing, data processing, and technical support outside of America is doing this.
What is outsourcing?
400
This group of people - mostly on the west and east coasts - create new ideas and solve complex problems in a wide range of fields.
Who are creative workers?
400
Americans think that business competition protects these three values.
What are individual freedom, equality of opportunity, and hard work
400
The life insurance company MetLife's 5-year study identified this new version of the American Dream.
What is the "Do-It-Yourself" American Dream?
400
When a lot of people collaborate on designing, engineering, financing, manufacturing, and distributing a product, this is called _________.
What is crowdsourcing?
500
These very rich people businesspeople want to spend some of their money trying to solve some of the world's most serious problems.
Who are the technophilanthropists?
500
According to Arianna Huffington, the persistence of the American Dream through hard economic times is expressed in these three factors.
What are resilience, creativity, and acts of compassion?
500
According to Jeff Skoll, "By nature, these people aren't satisfied until they do change the world, and (they) let nothing get in their way."
What are social entrepreneurs?
500
When the price and value of housing rises very quickly but is likely to drop again just as quickly, this is called a __________.