Jimmy Marshall

(1) Consider your participation in and contribution to. the charity event for your second piece of coursework. Reflecting on your experience, critically analyse ALL of the following

1a: your severance of group formation and group working, some of the difficulties that arose and how you dealt with them. explore motivations and group behavior, mapping onto theory where available.(800words)

1b: the value of the pre-planning that you and your group carried out. what light does this shed on the prescriptive approaches set out in standard textbooks on small business and entrepreneurship? (800words)

1c: the marketing carried out: list the activities, evaluating the relative success and failure of each one, and commenting on the experience. how does your experience relate to the small business approach to marketing?

your use of personal networks. how does your experience fit with small business networking theory? (800words)

2)

A)john often wonders what it would have been like if he had insisted that all of his daughters were involved in harpo's. discuss the likely advantages and disadvantages of harpo's being run as a family business from the perspective of both john. his daughters and the business itself.（400words）

B) as john approaches retirement age evaluate possible options for the future of the business, including consideration of succession.（400words）

3) when jon set up harpos in 1976 with a partner, they borrowed £500 in the form of a bank loan. today this would be equivalent to needing £10k to start the business. assuming all other factors mentioned in the case study remain the same. discuss the funding options that would and would not be likely available to john and his partner should they need £10k to start Harpo's in 2010.（800words）