Individual Assignment 1

Cameron Smith Dr. Chung BUS105 10 December 2018 IA05 On September 14th, guest speaker Dr. Charlotte Lott came in to speak to our class. Dr. Lott is an economics professor at Chatham University. Before becoming a professor at Chatham, Dr. Lott was an academic librarian at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. She came in to talk to the class about several aspects and provided a brief overview of working in economics. The class was somewhat aware of the aspects of economics due to the business textbooks that were used throughout the Business 105 course. The lecture was related to aspects of business due to the large amount of overlap in the curriculum in the two courses. Personally, Dr. Lott also teaches my microeconomics class and has provided me with a large amount of information throughout the semester. The lecture went hand and hand with the Wall Street Journal because both were heavily economics based and provide solid information. In the textbook, student were c...

Cameron Smith Dr. Chung BUS 105 10 December 2018 TA04 Richard J. Harshman -Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Elliot S. Davis -Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary Patrick J. DeCourcy -Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer Kevin B. Kramer -Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial and Marketing Officer Elizabeth C. Powers -Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer The major challenges and opportunities are the same as any other major companies and they have to deal with the accomplishments and issues that they achieve. The company is led by well-qualified professionals and a board of accomplished people that are capable of handling any possible situation that they may have adequately. The challenges and opportunities for employees at ATI are that it is hard work but if an employee is capable of handling the rigorous workload, then they have many opportu...

Cameron Smith Dr. Chung BUS 105 5 December 2018 IA 04 I attended Chatham’s Business and Entrepreneurship Club Accounting and Information Systems Networking Mixer on September 25th. The event had speakers that spent a little while talking about a number of things. The speakers took time to talk to the audience about aspects of business and then allowed for the audience to ask questions that they wanted a professional’s answer on. The event included a two hour panel that was conducted by Dr. Chung. On this panel was Tom Bartos, the CFO of Cognistx, Jim Marino, technology manager at PNC and professor at Chatham University, Dan Desko, the team leader of auditing and risk management at Schneider Downs. The panel consisted of Dr. Chung asking the three panelists a question that they would answer. This event was very helpful and allowed me to learn much additional information. My takeaway from this event was that it is very possible for people to be successful in their small ...