Authenticity in Scaling the Vision: Defining Boundaries in the Food and Beverage Entrepreneurship Development Cycle

The October 2015 Food and Beverage Entrepreneurship Roundtable brought together over 30 food and beverage industry leaders, entrepreneurs, faculty, and students at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University. Discussion topics covered entrepreneurship in the food and beverage industry, including development, intrapreneurship, operational efficiency, beverage product development, and technology. The roundtable began with the presentation of a five-point framework on food and beverage venue development. The first three phases focused on the launch of a venue, including how to define the guest experience; the creation of operational functionality by strategically planning out the design, flow, and efficiency of a defined space; and development capacity. The remaining two points of the framework focused on post-opening considerations, including operating systems and culture development. Participants discussed the importance of culture in the growth of a business. They suggested that intrapreneurship needs to be fostered in the culture of an organization and in an educational curriculum for those who are preparing to enter the industry. Participants also discussed the fine balance between setting expectations for an experience and subsequently being able to maintain this experience in a fast changing environment. In particular they considered what it means to say no to customers. A discussion on the beverage industry focused on how to distribute products in a crowded marketplace. One method to ensure that the product gets into the hands of the consumers is face-to-face sales. Finally, in the technology session, the group discussed technology adoption, specifically focusing on the point at which technology detracts from the guest experience, how to minimize operational risk from technology, and how to maximize consumers’ adoption rates.

Étude du comportement statique et cyclique de deux argiles sensibles de l’Est du Canada

Un projet de recherche de trois ans a été mis sur pied afin d’étudier l’amortissement, les vitesses des ondes de cisaillement et la résistance au cisaillement cyclique des argiles des mers post-glaciaire de l’est de l’Amérique du Nord. Cette maîtrise se situe dans la partie 1 du projet visant «la caractérisation des sols cohérents des sites et l’étude du comportement mécanique des argiles du site 1 et 2 sous sollicitation cyclique». Pour ce faire, les propriétés caractéristiques des trois sites (Outardes-2, Kinburn et Breckenridge) ont été déterminées en laboratoire. Les dépôts du site 1 : Outardes-2 proviennent de la mer de Goldthwait tandis que les dépôts des sites 2 et 3 : Kinburn et Breckenridge, proviennent de la mer de Champlain. Les caractéristiques physiques des matériaux ont été comparées avec les propriétés physiques typiques des argiles de l’est du Canada présentées par Leroueil et coll., (1983). En plus, le comportement sous sollicitation statique des sites 1 et 2 a été étudié en laboratoire à l’aide d’essais de cisaillement simple à volume constant (CSVC) statique et d’essais de cisaillement triaxial CIU. Les résultats de ces essais ont mis en évidence que les deux sites ont un comportement similaire qui est caractéristique des argiles de l’est du Canada. Le programme d’essais CSVC cyclique de laboratoire a permit de caractériser le comportement sous sollicitation cyclique de deux sols argileux de l’est du Canada. Les résultats ont permit de mettre en évidence des similitudes de comportement des deux sites. Ils ont permit également de mettre en évidence une plage de résistance cyclique des sols à grains fins des mers post-glaciaire de l’est de l’Amérique du Nord.

Comparison of the Distribution, Abundance, and Diversity of Zooplankton in Trevor Channel and Alberni Inlet, Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 444

Survey of dinoflagellate cysts in Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445

Replicating the Networking, Mentoring and Venture Creation Benefits of Entrepreneurship Centres on a Shoestring: A Student-centred Approach to Entrepreneurship Education and Venture Creation

As support for both university-level entrepreneurial education and the use of experiential learning methods to foster student entrepreneurs increases, so too have the number of university-established or affiliated entrepreneurship centers. The activity at the center of this study aimed to combine experiential learning methods with assets associated with entrepreneurship centers, including venture creation, networking, and mentoring. Students were invited to participate in a competition wherein they were guided through the business creation process and pitched their ideas to investor judges who chose the winner and provided capital start-up funding and consulting. This research puts forth that university faculty at institutions without entrepreneurship centers can organize experiences to provide the benefits of entrepreneurship centers. The study used interviews to find that many of the benefits of entrepreneurship centers were able to be replicated using this method. The project is outlined, outcomes are analyzed, and the results and lessons learned are discussed.

Spatial variability in surface sediment organic carbon structure in Barkley Sound, Vancouver Island, Canada

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445

Spatial distribution of plastic pollutants in a transit from Puget Sound to outside Nootka Sound Canada

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445

Analysis of zooplankton species composition and depth-based habitat preference in Nootka Sound, B.C., Canada

Senior thesis written for Oceanography 445

Is there really a value in entrepreneurship education?

This paper considers whether entrepreneurship education has a value outside of the education institutions in which it takes place. The paper takes an indirect form of enquiry and argues that entrepreneurship education is driven by three factors; the growing emphasis on supply side policy interventions in the economy; the emphasis placed on the agency of management in the growing literature on globalisation and international reforms to public sector organisations. The paper concludes that there is a tension between the activity as descriptive and the activity as promotion and until this tension is resolved it is unlikely that there will be clarity about the value of this form of education.

Building Smarter Cities through Social Entrepreneurship

The objective of the present study is to examine the extent to which social ventures are able to increase the smartness of the cities. To achieve this goal, we adopt a qualitative approach, based on the case study method to obtain valuable insights about different characteristics and strategies of Cais (a non-profit association dedicated to help disadvantaged people in urban areas). By focusing on the analysis of the Cais activities, we assess whether its social intervention match the dimensions proposed by Giffinger et al. (2007) to rank smart cities’ performance, namely if it has smart: (i) economy; (ii) people; (iii) governance; (iv) mobility; (v) environment; and (vi) living. The research shows that the action pursued comprises elements from all the above mentioned dimensions. Further, the analysis reveals that Cais reinforces the smartness of the city where it acts (attributes such as living, economy, people, and environment).

Consulting to social entrepreneurship initiatives - using business skills to help solve social problems: ERG: A sustainable approach

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Return migration and entrepreneurship: An IV approach

Double Degree. A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Master’s Degree in Management from NOVA – School of Business and Economics and a Masters Degree in Economics from Louvain School of Management

Internationalization strategy of Quinta dos Termos to Canada

Quinta dos Termos, a Portuguese winery, currently faces the need to expand internationally due to difficulties in distributing its current production in Portugal. This work project will analyze the firm’s characteristics, its development in the Portuguese market and the value proposition it offers. A market analysis will also be performed prior to evaluating the internationalization need of Quinta dos Termos. The Canadian market will be assessed as an opportunity to expand internationally by evaluating factors supporting that strategy; namely the market attractiveness, the most adequate implementation plan and a competitive analysis to better understand the success expectations in the market.

Essays in entrepreneurship among foreign individuals

We study how countries of origin affect foreign individuals’ choice between salaried work and entrepreneurship upon arrival to the host country. Using a change in the Portuguese immigration law we evaluate the impact of reducing regulations on entrepreneurship upon the probability of foreign individuals choose entrepreneurship upon arrival. We find that foreigners from countries more dissimilar to the host country and those from wealthier countries are more likely engage in entrepreneurship upon arrival than those from similar countries. Foreigners from countries outside the European Economic Area, who have to fulfil requirements that are not required to those from countries within this area, are less likely to enter the labor market as entrepreneurs than those from countries within this area. According to our findings reducing legal requirements to foreign entrepreneurship may encourage foreigners to engage in entrepreneurship upon arrival, although such impact is not considerable.