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Mechelle’S Bridal Palace Business Plan, Lakendra Montgomery

Theses

This project aims to develop a comprehensive business plan for a one-of-a-kind bridal store called Mechelle's Bridal Palace, which offers an innovative and unique bridal shopping experience. The plan goes beyond the traditional bridal store concept and includes a café, which will provide customers with additional relaxation and convenience. This business plan focuses on redefining the traditional bridal shopping experience and making it more enjoyable for customers. Moreover, this project aims to address the issue of diversity, representation, and inclusion in bridal fashion. The bridal industry has historically been exclusive, and it aims to address this by creating a more …

Canvas Creations Hub, Mengting Yan

MA Projects

This is a business plan about CCH that has not been implemented. With the
rapid development of the Internet in China, e-commerce market has come into the
period of explosive growth after more than ten years of market cultivation. Recently, the amount of APP online shopping in one year has exceeded 40 trillion yuan. In this situation, traditional enterprises are getting involved into e-commerce. This paper studies the situation of the e-commerce market and the art derivatives industry, elaborates the market opportunities, and makes an economic analysis of the operation of art derivatives APPs, which can be used as a …

The Moment Of Beijing, Zhang Yue

MA Projects

After a complete COVID-19 lockdown of three years, most Chinese people crave opportunities to replenish their already waned and suffocated needs in the cultural and artistic realm (21st Century Economy, 2023). Seeking this invaluable time to enhance city influence and cultural image, major metropolises, especially Beijing, actively appeal to various exhibitions, shows, and cultural tourism resorts. The scope is almost unprecedented: cultural tourism, music, art, fine art, creative art, and traditional produce harmoniously integrate and captivate thousands of people. People’s need for art and culture is here, and Beijing is ready to make full strides. It is at this critical …

Bunzi, Non-Profit Contemporary Art Center For Archive And Craftmanship In Abidjan, Ivory Coast., Kinda Ghandour

MA Projects

Growing up in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, I discovered my passion for arts through my fine art teacher. Every two months, she would arrange visits to the Cecile Fakhoury gallery or the Donwhahi foundation. As I walked through these spaces, my imagination and mind expanded. These contemporary art platforms opened doors to me, giving me the opportunity to work in the arts. Cecile Fakhoury has proved that west African art offers great promise and growth since 2013. According to artsy, Aboudia was one of the top 20 selling artists in 2022. The 1-54 art fair, which has existed for 10 years, …

Business Plan For Destraal Bakery, Lauren Frazier

Marketing Undergraduate Honors Theses

Destraal Bakery is a bakery café that will offer patrons a space to slow down and treat themselves. Offering bread products and coffee, Destraal differentiates itself through product quality, shop atmosphere, delivery, and social responsibility. Destraal will eventually seek B- Corp status.

Located in West Colorado Springs, more specifically, Old Colorado Springs, Destraal will benefit from grants and loans offered to female entrepreneurs, high levels of tourism and foot traffic, and close proximity to the target demographic. In a growing industry, Destraal is forecasted to be profitable within the first year. The bakery café will achieve 14% profit margin in …

Turbocharge Tutoring Business Plan, Daniel Rugen Haller

Management Undergraduate Honors Theses

College tutoring business plan.

Wakesurf Nwa: A Surfing Entertainment Business Plan, Ethan Carney

Management Undergraduate Honors Theses

WakeSurf NWA is a thrilling entertainment facility that will fill a void in this highly affluent market. Our design is to bring surfing where surfing has never been before, in a land-locked location. With high-tech engineering to allow surfing on land, WakeSurf NWA will provide real surfing to the people in and around Northwest Arkansas. Our company will also be built around helping our community, donating a portion of proceeds to a local nonprofit. What sets WakeSurf NWA apart from other companies in the area is how we will bring something completely new to the region that can be enjoyed …

Dissecting Sauan Sibarrung's Business Plan Credit Union, Selmita Paranoan, Made Sudarma, Roekhudin Roekhudin, Noval Adib

The Qualitative Report

This article aims to describe the accountability practiced in credit unions. This study examines formal and informal practices and underlying approaches to accountability to members. Design/methodology/approach, namely with an ethnomethodological approach, this study explores accountability of Credit Union in Indonesia, through interviews and observations with practitioners, management, government, and credit union members, as well as documentation analysis. The results of the study found that Credit Union Sauan Sibarrung prioritizes accountability to members through the actualization of the vision and mission, which is manifested concretely in the preparation of programs (business plans) in the form of mindset transformation through Education and …

Creating A Responsibly Made Product For A Handcrafted Business, Jordan Khusnulgatin

Theses

The purpose of this project is to build a small scale handcrafted product and business from scratch that incorporates sustainable practices. There are many factors that make up a business. For this project in particular, the main concern will be centered around all aspects of the product and customer experience, including finding a niche, the aesthetic, branding, packaging, pricing, sustainable practices, and creating a business plan. This project will follow the steps described above to discover a niche and the basis upon which this handmade business will be derived from, providing a physical example of what a thoroughly thought-out handcrafted …

Platforming Gamification As A Means Of Engagement In Employee Recruitment And Onboarding, Samuel D. Lipson

Management Undergraduate Honors Theses

Gamification, generally understood as the application of game elements and design concepts in non-game contexts, is a field of academic study and multibillion-dollar business tool whose popularity is growing as a means of employee engagement, education and training, and talent selection. While there are companies that attempt to gamify separate processes within the employee life cycle, no company exists that gamifies the stages surrounding talent selection: attraction and recruitment of applicants and onboarding of final candidates. To this end, this thesis proposes a software and consulting company, GameON Business Solutions, that will work with small and medium enterprises to expand …

The Importance Of Business Plan Proficiency To Business School Graduates, Madeline Colclasure

Senior Honors Theses

Small businesses are one of the largest groups of employers in the United States. Success of these businesses is, therefore, very important to the economy at large. Entrepreneurs who write business plans, in general, receive more funding from third parties such as banks and venture capital firms and are more likely to be successful. Entrepreneurs who receive a business education and have the support of a mentor are also more likely to be successful in the long term. Incorporating business planning, and activities such as business plan competitions and building incubators on campus, enhance classroom learning.

Plan De Negocios Para La Creación De Empresa Porcicultora En El Municipio De Ubaque, César Andrés Cortés Rivera

Contaduría Pública

El presente documento elabora un plan de negocios para la creación de empresa porcicultora “Porcicola Villa del Carmen” en el municipio de Ubaque Cundinamarca a partir de los conocimientos en la carrera profesional de Contaduría Pública en la Universidad de la Salle. Se realizó una investigación de tipo descriptivo para analizar la viabilidad de creación de empresa del sector porcicultor. La empresa “Porcicola Villa del Carmen” se constituye con el fin de criar cerdos de engorde con 23 a 25 días de vida que es después de que son retirados de su madre y empieza su etapa de levante y …

Intercollegiate Wine Business Invitational, Nathan Saragoza, Ally Bushman, Cassidy Robinson, Hanna Bingham, Sam Weymouth, Luca Mallon

Student Engagement Posters

Nathan Saragoza, Ally Bushman, Cassidy Robinson, Hanna Bingham, Sam Weymouth, and Luca Mallon discuss student engagement at Linfield College with regard to their participation in the Intercollegiate Wine Business Invitational.

Altart, Hannah Nashman

MA Projects

AltArt is short for Alternative Art. The mandate of AltArt is to incorporate art into our lives in an alternative way. The goal is to create a modern network of professionals immersed and/or interested in the arts.

AltArt is an arty club located in the heart of Toronto, Canada. Our mission is to provide our local creative community with the best opportunity for innovation, networking and success. AltArt offers an array of unique services in a gallery space with rotating art programs, alternative spaces for creating art and a platform allowing our members to collaborate with one another.

AltArt is …

Plan De Negocios Para La Creación De Un Parque Temático Equino En La Dorada, Caldas, Alejandro Alzate Salazar

Administración de Agronegocios

El presente documento muestra los resultados del plan de negocios realizado para el montaje de un parque temático equino. Se realizó un estudio de mercado a nivel nacional, teniendo en cuenta los parques de competencia, determinando su ubicación, requerimientos técnicos, administrativos para poner en operación el parque. Siendo la rentabilidad financiera del proyecto e $27.226.551.181, con un costo de oportunidad del 10% y un periodo total de recuperación de la inversión de cuatro años lo cual refleja que el negocio del parque temático es una excelente alternativa para un inversionista

Strategies To Obtain Loans For Black-Owned Small Businesses, Trenessa Baker

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Less than 30% of Black business owners successfully obtain small business loans to sustain their businesses longer than 5 years when compared to evidence that shows that more than 65% of White small business owners obtain small business loans to sustain their businesses longer than 5 years. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the experiences of 3 Black owners of small businesses who successfully obtained small business loans and maintained operations longer than 5 years in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. The conceptual framework for this study was systems theory and contingency theory. …

Funding A Feature: Creating A Film Business Plan, Jordan C. Hunt

Senior Honors Theses

Every film, from the smallest indie to the biggest studio blockbuster, must be funded, and all investors who finance a movie expect that the movie will give them a return on their investment. In order to seek funding, many filmmakers create a business plan to present to potential investors. Beginning with the film industry as a whole, this paper will define a specific target audience and distribution plan for one film in order to create a business plan. The film, titled Intertwined, is an independent low budget family drama that will primarily raise funds through equity investors. This is …

Business Plan: The Coffee Project, Lauren Porter

Accounting Undergraduate Honors Theses

Executive Summary

The Coffee Project will be a specialty coffee shop in downtown Bartlesville, OK offering direct-trade coffee, tea, simple meals, and TCP merchandise. The shop will offer the standard specialty coffee drinks like cappuccinos, lattes, macchiatos and cortados, as well as shots of flavors and a selection of milk alternatives. In achieving its mission to provide great specialty coffee with a cause to Bartlesville, a portion of the profits from every food or drink purchase at The Coffee Project will be donated to local and regional charity organizations of the customers’ choosing. All net profits from TCP merchandise will …

A Business Plan For The Three Barn Farm, Jessica Loechler

Marketing Undergraduate Honors Theses

The Three Barn Farm is a rural wedding venue that offers a personal, intimate experience for those who appreciate the simple beauty of the American countryside. Our mission is to make our home your home on the best day of your life. The name “The Three Barn Farm” reflects the three beautiful fixtures on the land. The first barn is the one-hundred-year-old classic red barn. With recently refurbished wood to capture the barn’s original beauty for years to come, this barn serves as a Pinterest-worthy spot for bridal photos, a welcome area, and many other purposes. The second barn is …

Kolkata Biennial Foundation, Aman Bacchawat

MA Projects

The Kolkata Biennial Foundation project is a blueprint to establish a biennial in the city of Kolkata, India. With the proliferation of the biennial format since the 1990’s there are currently 250 active biennials that occur every year. The project is a study of finding the feasibility of the hosting a biennial and various costs and funds required to realize this dream. With the contemporary art infrastructure in India still in its adolescence, the foundation will become the catalyst in improving the current scenario of artistic progression in the country and the region and provide the foundation blocks for the …

Kaya | Project Public Art, Tenzin Lama

MA Projects

KAYA|Project Public Art exhibits public art in public spaces in Kathmandu every two years. Every year we have two special events around the topic of Public Art and Public Sphere. It’s a private foundation initiated by a Kathmandu dweller who understands the ever changing landscape of Kathmandu. On the verge of gentrification, and other political transformation, Kathmandu requires a selfexpression of urbanity and dwelling. This foundation gives agency to the ordinary citizens to define their public sphere in the long run through it’s forum and active advocacy.

Yu Buyu: A Curatorial Studio: A Business Plan 2019-2024, Jing Mei Yu

MA Projects

The paper proposed a five-year business plan for establishing a curatorial studio in Chengdu, China - YU BUYU. It analysed the current statues of contemporary art in Chengdu from different perspectives, for example, in terms of museums, galleries, art fair, and etc. By analysing the situation, the paper identified Chengdu’s area of improvement - to grow the local art ecosystem between museums, galleries, artists and individual collectors by strengthen the connections and relationships between different sectors and increase interactions with wider art community. The paper thus proposed the curatorial studio as an active gathering place to exhibit emerging art, to …

The Aaart Fund, Jill Jongen

MA Projects

Art is no longer only perceived as an “investment of passion”. Rather, art constitutes a viable alternative financial asset class that can be exploited through strategic trading. Due to the lower volatility and lesser correlation with traditional assets, holding art in an investment portfolio offers diversification benefits that will maintain returns while reducing risk. However, acquiring the “right” artworks, that is, the ones that will appreciate in value, can be pricey and risky. Investors can overcome these two challenges through participation in pooled art investments such as THE AAART FUND.

THE AAART FUND, located in New York City, is a …

Business Plan Project, Hejun Xu

MA Projects

The business plan is to build an online trade platform dedicated only to selling ceramic art and design in China, our mission is to provide high quality and modern design of ceramic art to middle - and upper - middle class of the country, and is to also reinvigorate the country’s tradition and culture of aesthetic object appreciating

Koda: Business Plan, Klaudia Draber

MA Projects

High costs of real estate prevent artists and social entrepreneurs from unleashing their curiosity. Secluded working spaces limit inspiration and the ability to cross-pollinate ideas. Traditional entrepreneurship is often disconnected from local realities, and fails to address the pressing societal and communal challenges. KODA provides space for collaborative work and enables synergy. It is a laboratory of creative concepts and a platform to advance the careers of artists and social entrepreneurs in an experimental manner to enable mutual learning and co-creation.

KODA will launch in two locations. The primary exhibition and co-working space will open in 2021 in Crown Heights, …

Kalaheo Art Space, David Hanlon

MA Projects

On Oahu, our local art scene is seeing a renaissance of sorts when it comes to contemporary art practices mixed with local flavor. Kaka’ako area is a great example of this. Kaka’ako and China Town on the island of Oahu are new venues and outlets of contemporary theories and methods of showcasing art and the new generations both social and economic ideologies that have been adapted for island life.

While all of this is happening, there still isn’t a place where creatives on Isle can go to create, collaborate and grow their artistry all in one permanent place. More often …

Gallery Swap, Denise Szekely

MA Projects

In a world increasingly dominated by mega-Galleries like Zwirner and Gagosian with outposts in several continents, an international presence seems almost required for success. The rising cost of real estate in art capitals like London or New York is harming the gallery ecosystem, with less than half of the galleries reporting profitability. Smaller galleries, if they continue to run the current course, will never be able to compete with the likes of Hauser & Wirth or David Zwirner.

Art fairs are an expensive alternative to providing international reach, as they provide a small yet impersonal space in a different place …

Mccoll Consulting, Virginia Mccoll

MA Projects

McColl Consulting is a full-service art-consulting firm based in Atlanta, Georgia, which assists individual and corporate clients in the acquisition, disposition, relocation, and management of collections of fine art and other collectible assets.

We believe that art has the ability to influence our daily lives and transform the spaces in which we live and work. Works of art can inspire, create, and communicate values throughout each environment they are placed.

McColl Consulting provides clients with complete assistance in the purchasing, shipping, handling, installing, and storing of objects as well as managing inventory of the entire collection of fine art and …

"Proper Uses Of The Business Plan" From The Entrepreneur’S Intellectual Property & Business Handbook, Jon Garon

Faculty Scholarship

This article is part of a series of book excerpts from The Entrepreneur’s Intellectual Property & Business Handbook, which provides the business, strategy, and legal reference guide for start-ups and small businesses. A useful business plan provides a blueprint for the operations, direction, and growth of a business. It explains the needs for funding, anticipates the cash flow operations of the business, highlights strategic partnerships, and serves as a proof-of-concept for key partners. The credibility of the business plan will help investors, founders, suppliers, lenders, and other key partners be able to assess the thoughtfulness and planfulness that has gone …

Sustainment Strategies Small Business Owners Use For More Than 5 Years, Son Thanh Nguyen

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

U.S. Small Business Administration reports that small businesses are one of the pillars of the U.S. economy, providing employment, innovation, and productivity. However, these businesses are constantly faced with challenges resulting from limited resources and continuous technological advances. This qualitative multiple-case study was performed to explore the strategies that small business owners (SBOs) in Maryland use to acquire capital to sustain their businesses financially for more than 5 years. The study's framework, the strategic management theory, was applied to determine the most effective approaches for the small businesses. Face-to-face interviews with 6 recruited SBOs were performed. A qualitative thematic analysis …