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Gender As A Predictor Of Planning In Small Business, Calvin Wang, Elizabeth Walker, Janice Redmond

Janice Redmond Dr

The increase in women-owned small businesses in recent times has led to a corresponding rise in interest in women entrepreneurship. While some of this interest has focused on differences between male and female operators and their business operations, there has been relatively little attention paid to gender comparisons in relation to small business planning. Given that women are broadly acknowledged to behave and manage their businesses differently from men, then knowledge of how gender might influence planning activities has important implications for the small business sector. Accordingly, this paper presents results of an empirical study into small business planning and …

Gero-Sys, Plan For A New Adult Day Care Center, Vikas Singh, Katherine Goodnight, Chris Ellis, Stacy Schriver

Vikas Singh

Executive Summary

The environment in Tucson, Arizona is the ideal location for Gero-Sys to put its new Adult Day Care Center. Over the last decade, large numbers of elderly people have settled in the area for retirement, causing the median age to jump by 11%. The population has a high incidence of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and other conditions affecting the elderly, as well as, a high rate of disability with over 46% of the 65+ population having some form of disability. With the area growing at twice the national average, the economy in the area is very attractive …