2.1 Which Corporate Culture Do You Value?

Imagine that upon graduation, you have the good fortune to face two entrepreneurial opportunities. The first is with a startup known to value a hard-nosed, no-nonsense business culture in which keeping long hours and working intensely are highly valued. At the end of each year, the company plans to donate to numerous social and environmental causes. The second entrepreneurial opportunity is with a nonprofit recognized for a very different culture based on its compassionate approach to employee work-life balance. It also offers the chance to pursue your own professional interests or volunteerism during a portion of every workday. The earnings plan with the first opportunity pays 20 percent more per year.

• Which of these opportunities would you pursue and why?
• In what ways might company contributions to a cause carry more power to impact the cause? In what ways might individual contributions be more powerful? Think of examples for each scenario.
• How important an attribute is income, and at what point would a higher income override for you the nonmonetary benefits of the lower-compensated opportunity?

Your task is to answer the above questions in a well-developed multi-paragraph response. Your submission should be no more than 500 words in total.