You will turn in a paper at the end of Week 7 which will consist of 10-15 pages (including title page, abstract, table of contents, references and any appendices) regarding a sport entrepreneur of your choice (approved by your instructor no later than Week 3 with the outline assignment).This paper will discuss the life and business venture that the person of your choice has taken on (e.g. Michael Jordan’s vast entrepreneurial ventures after his successful basketball career, Mark Cuban, Jerry Jones, or someone less popular or maybe more local to you). THIS PAPER IS ABOUT THE PERSON’S ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITIES, NOT THEIR SPORT ACHIEVEMENTS. —Michael Jordan
Your paper will judged on originality, description of the entrepreneurial ventures of the person of your choice. The person does not have to be a sport celebrity, but can be someone who started a sport business.
I will also check for proper APA formatting, citations and references. You must have at least 10 sources from the Internet and/or professional journals.
The paper should have the following:
- Table of Contents
- Chapter I: Introduction (include the name of the Sport Entrepreneur)
- Chapter II: Review of Literature
- Overview of the Sport Entrepreneur
- Upbringing and history of sport entrepreneur
- Challenges faced by the entrepreneur (be sure to consider legal or ethical challenges)
- Failures of the entrepreneur
- Successes of the entrepreneur
- Future endeavors of the entrepreneur (if not deceased)
- Chapter III: Conclusions, Discussions and Recommendations
