What are the 5–10 most useful takeaways you have learned in this course?

One of the biggest things I will be taking away for the course, is how to use excel to build
spreadsheets. Allowing the excel formulas to calculate the information needed. Not, just doing the
work on paper and imputing the numbers. Some of the other things I will be taking away from the
course are, risk factors- making sure that all internal and external factors have been evaluated when
creating a business plan, the difference between organically/inorganically growing a business- and
making sure both options are carefully examined- the one that you are planning might not be the
best option, when doing financial forecasting - make sure that you take the best case and worse case
scenarios into account, and the different loan types- there are some many different types and each
one has its advantages /disadvantages.

How will you apply what you have learned in this course to the Marketing and Strategy Business Plan
that you’ve been developing throughout your MBA studies?
The Marketing and Strategy Business Plan has Starbucks partnering with other organizations. The
information we have learned during this class, has giving me a better understanding of it will work,
and some of the things I need to take into consideration when factoring in the risk that will be
associated with the join adventure.
How might you apply what you learned in this course to your future professional work?
The organization I currently work with just partnered with another faith-based healthcare
organization in September. Taking this class allowed me to have the advantage of understanding
some of the terminology. I would like to advance within our organization and the understanding I
have gain from this class will help me learn different aspect of our business.