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Pallavi Chawla (006)
Anchal Gupta (039)
Divya Bhateja (055)
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The entrepreneur is an individual who introduces something new in
the economy- a new production method, a new product, a new source
of raw material, a new market etc.
- Joseph Schumpeter.
An entrepreneur is the one who always searches for change, responds
to it and exploits it as an opportunity. Innovation is a specific tool by
which he exploits change as an opportunity, for a business or service.
- Peter Drucker
A true entrepreneur is the one who is endowed with more than
average capacity in the task of organising and coordinating the various
other factors of production.
– Francis Walker
‘Women Entrepreneur’ is a person who accepts challenging role to meet
her personal needs and become economically independent.
Women owned businesses are highly increasing in the economies of almost
all countries.
A strong desire to do something positive is an inbuilt quality of
entrepreneurial women, who is capable of contributing values in both
family and social life.
The glass ceilings are shattered and women are found indulged in every line
of business from pappad to power cables.
In India, although women constitute the majority of the total population,
the entrepreneurial world is still a male dominated one.
Have Clear vision and ambition
They tend to work more in
teams
Efficient execution
Effectively coordinating the
available factors and resources
Are less self-centered
Personal ego to them is less
important for them than success
of the organization.
• Lack of confidence
• Socio-cultural barriers
• Market-oriented risks
• Knowledge in Business
Administration
• Awareness about the financial
assistance
• Psychological Factors
Educate/train the women
entrepreneurs
Help then in setting up of home
based businesses
Make easy finance available
Develop special schemes for
women entrepreneurs
Examine the processes of gender
inequality
Founder of Akanksha foundation
CEO of Teach for india movement
• She was born in Mumbai, in a Parsi family. She is a graduate of
University of Mumbai. Shaheen Mistry is young, brilliant and very
articulate. She is also fearless and a natural leader.
• Shaheen has felt drawn to working with poor children since college,
when she first began looking for volunteer opportunities.
• Visits to Mumbai's slums made the wide gap between the rich and
poor very apparent.
• Shaheen realized how powerful education could be for slum children
• One of Shaheen's first goals was to tackle existing stereotypes about
educating children from slums
Ashoka Fellow (2001)
Global Leader for Tomorrow at the World Economic
Forum (2002)
Asia Society 21 Leader (2006)
Akanksha began with a simple idea.
There were thousands of college students who had
the energy, enthusiasm and time to teach.
There existed pockets of available spaces located in
schools that seemed ideal teaching environments.
The simple idea then, was to bring together the
three - kids, student volunteers and spaces- in
schools for less privileged children run by college
students.
A request for space to teach the children
To find children and convince them to come
The aim - a good time for the children
She founded organization in 1989
started her organization with just 15 students
but now it has more than 3,500 children across
Mumbai and Pune.
This organization hires exceptionally brilliant college
graduates and young professionals to teach full time
for two years in under-resourced schools and
become life-long leaders across sectors.
To impact the lives of less privileged children
Enabling them to maximise their potential
It addresses formal and informal education
Building a good and dedicated team
lack of awareness of the movement
Scarcity of funds.
To attract top-notch teachers to her centers by
offering them professional development
opportunities.
She didn’t know the hindi language while she was
to deal with the people of slum area.
Every child is also enrolled in a public school
Teacher training
They also conduct bi-annual evaluations
Coordinators visit regularly to help teachers
Housing the Akanksha Centers in donated spaces
The partner organizations encourage their staff
members to develop relationships with students by
teaching them a skill
Oprah Gail Winfrey
•January 29, 1954
•Talk show host,
entrepreneur and an actress...
•Net Worth : $ 2.4 billion
•1983-Present
Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi.
Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high
school and began co-anchoring the local evening
news at the age of 19.
Winfrey relocated to Chicago to host WLS-TV’s
low-rated half-hour morning talk show, AM In 1983
Chicago. The first episode aired on January 2, 1984.
Within months after Winfrey took over, the show
went from last place in the ratings to overtaking
Donahue as the highest rated talk show in Chicago.
It was renamed
The Oprah Winfrey S
how
, expanded to a full
hour, and broadcast
nationally beginning
September 8, 1986.
Entertainment Production Company.
In 1988, she purchased a state-of-the-art production
studio in Chicago and took over ownership and
production of "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
Films
Winfrey has co-authored five books and publishes
two magazines :
O, The Oprah Magazine and O at Home
www. oprah.com
Radio
Future Projects
Winfrey endorsed presidential candidate Barack Obama
in the 2008 presidential election.
Winfrey was named as the '2008 Person of the Year' by
animal-rights group PETA.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Oprah created the
Oprah Angel Network Katrina registry. As of September
2006, donations to the Oprah Angel Network Katrina
registry total more than $11 million.
Winfrey has also helped 250 African-American men
continue or complete their education at Morehouse
College in Atlanta, Georgia.
Started in the year 1959 with a
seed capital of Rs. 80
Turnover more than Rs 3
billion and exports worth
Rs.100 million
42000 employees
67 branches and 35 divisions
Jaswantiben Jamnadas Popat, Parvatiben Ramdas
Thodani, Ujamben Narandas Kundalia, Banuben. N.
Tanna, Laguben Amritlar Gokani, Jayaben V. Vithalani
The women borrowed Rs 80 from Chaganlal Karamsi Parekh
On March 15, 1959, they gathered on the terrace of their
building and started with the production of 4 packets of
Papads. They started selling the papads to a known merchant
in Bhuleshwar.
Lijjat expanded as a cooperative system
publicity through word of mouth
by the end of the third year it had more than 300
members.
By 1962-63, annual sales of papads touched Rs.
1.82 lakh.
July 1966, Lijjat registered itself as a society under
the Societies Registration Act 1860
In 1988, Lijjat entered the soap market with Sasa
detergent and soap. Sasa had annual sales of Rs 500
million, accounting for 17 percent of Lijjat's total
turnover in 1998
1990s, Lijjat started attracted attention of foreign
visitors and officials.
"Best Village Industries Institution" award
from KVIC for the period 1998-99 to 2000-01
Lijjat marks its 51st year of existence on March 15,
2010
Stopping production for four months during the
rainy season.
An attempt to start a branch in Malad suburb of
Mumbai, in 1961, was unsuccessful.
An attempt to start a branch in Sangli town, in 1966,
was unsuccessful
As its popularity grew, Lijjat started facing the
problem of fake Lijjat papads being introduced in
the market.
A literacy campaign for sisters began through
literacy classes at Girgaum on June 18, 1999
Chhaganbapa Smruti Scholarships to the daughters
of the member-sisters
Valad-set up an educational and hobby centre for
the rural women. courses in typing, cooking,
sewing, knitting and toy making, child welfare, first
aid and hygiene were taught.
Distributing nutritious food for poor children
Donating money for conducting community
marriage
Instituting prize-money for spread of primary
education
Undertaking blood donation drive
Organizing health camps
Plantation drives
Making donations to Government bodies
