Blog #1

Hello, my name is Matt Glantz and I'm from Newton, Ma.  I attended Newton public schools for all of k-12 just graduating for Newton North High School last year.  I'm now a freshman attending Nichols College and majoring in General Business.  I chose this major because I'm not really sure what I want to do when I get out of college so I figured general business would keep my options open.  I've always enjoyed following professional sports, mostly the NBA and MLB.  Being from Massachusetts I'm a Celtics and Red Sox fan.



I enrolled in this class because I was required to take a management class and this interested me the most.  I've always wanted to work in the Business world and I think that this class will give me a great introduction to it.  I also hope to learn about how to approach the world after college.  Where are the best places to start to work your way up.

My assignment was to read and comment on the article "Importance Of Business In The Present Day World".  The article sums up what Business is from the writers point of view.  He breaks business down into 4 steps: Production, Distribution, Service and Customers.  I'm not a fan of this article for many reasons.  First of all, I think that one of the most important things about Business is Professionalism.  This article had many typos and a lot of mistakes in grammar.  This made it hard to understand at times and makes me take the article less seriously.  Another thing I didn't like is that the writer was listing off the "activities" in which business take place.  The 4th topic in his list said that Business raised the standard in living.  This did not fit in with the other 4 topics.  The others all described aspects of Business and this topic described something that Business does.