My Unfair Advantage

List of Resources

1. Personal experience with socially responsible financial services:  VRIN (Very valuable for obvious reasons, valuable; my experience is also rare because the socially responsible financial services market is still in a development stage; it is also inimitable because copying experience cannot be done; there are other practitioners in this space so I would say that my experience is substitutable)

Growing My Social Capital

This is a very important assignment but one that proved to be difficult for me for two reasons.  One, I was traveling for a good portion of last week and this week so I was not able to devote enough time to the assignment and two, my concept and the industry it relates to is difficult to pin down.

Week 10 Reading Reflection

Questions

1) What was the biggest surprise for you in the reading? In other words, what did you read that stood out the most as different from your expectations?

This chapter is pretty standard for understanding the basic financial statements and metrics.  Therefore, nothing really was a surprise.  I just found the organization of information to be very useful so it stood out but this is a common theme throughout this excellent text.

Elevator Pitch 3

Reflection

I decided to repost my second elevator pitch because I received all positive feedback for it.  I had addressed the issues identified in my first elevator pitch in it.  I am hoping that by reposting it, either the first set of feedback (4 comments) will be validated or I will get feedback in this round to improve it. Obviously, I was surprised by the overwhelming positive feedback.

Week 9 Reading Reflection

Questions

1) What was the biggest surprise for you in the reading? In other words, what did you read that stood out the most as different from your expectations?

The difference between qualitative and quantitative research and its application was a surprise because I had always considered qualitative research to be more important.

My Secret Sauce

I believe that humility is one of the most important of human traits so this exercise presents an interesting dilemma.  I am supposed to talk about myself so, like it or not, here is an honest attempt at it.

Human Capital:  My Perception

Idea Napkin No. 2

The five important elements of my business concept, SORIN (the SOcially Responsible INitiative) are presented here again with the aim of incorporating the feedback that was provided in Idea Napkin 1.  They are as follows:

1) You.

I am a seasoned financial services professional with 25 years of experience that includes a dozen years working with socially responsible financial services.  Professionally, I have been described as a jack of all trades because my experience is expansive comprising of entrepreneurship, technology, finance, marketing, management, business, and product development.  I see SORIN as the embodiment of my ideals and now consider it my life's work because it integrates all of my past experiences and future educational goals into a cohesive movement dedicated to proving that socially responsible financial services are the antidote to the potentially self-destructive tendencies of free market capitalism.