Business-Wise is the closest retired badge that is equivalent to the current Business Owner

Business Owner 2011	Business-Wise 2001	Unknown 1999
Unknown 1994	Business-Wise 1990	Unknown 1986
Business-Wise 1980	Unknown 1977	Unknown 1963
Unknown 1953	Unknown 1947	Unknown 1938
Unknown 1936	Unknown 1934	Unknown 1930
Unknown 1927	Unknown 1920	Unknown 1917

2011 – Business Owner

Girl’s Earn it at Home
Leader’s Guide to Earn
See 2011 Junior Handbook for full requirements. What is listed below is taken from Badge Explorer to give an idea of what you would need to do.
Complete all 5 steps:

• Explore a business you might like to start someday
• Learn the basics of running a business
• Find out what kind of support is available for small-business owners
• Investigate what makes great customer service
• Understand the importance of consumer research

2001 – Business-Wise

See 2001 Junior Girl Scout Badge Book manual for complete requirements. This list only gives a general idea of what would be required.
Complete 6 of the following 10 options:

• List your skills and talents. Talk to neighbors to get ideas of products and services they need. List businesses your skills would meet the community’s needs.
• Talk to a successful female business owner and ask these questions.
• With troop, debate advantages and disadvantages of working for yourself.
• What business could you start now? Answer questions from list and make a business plan. Share plan with adult.
• Talk to friend interested in starting a business with you. Create guidelines to help guarantee a successful working relationship. “Communicate” should be at the top of the list.
• Interview someone who owns a business and ask specific questions on cost and profit.
• Create an advertising campaign. Answer these questions.
• Choose a scenario from list to demonstrate how you present yourself and your product to customers. Prepare a presentation for about your product or service.
• Take part in running a business according to your business plan for at least 1 month.
• How do you open a savings or checking account for a business? Learn what services are offered by the bank for business customers.

1990 – Business-Wise

See 1990 Girl Scout Badges and Signs manual for complete requirements. This list only gives a general idea of what would be required.

Complete this item:

• Think about a business you could start. Answer these questions.

Complete 4 of the following 7 options:

• Take part in running a business for 1 month, or start your business and carry out the advertising campaign, or create an imaginary advertising campaign.
• Choose a scenario from list to demonstrate how you present yourself and your product to customers.
• How do you open a savings or checking account for a business? Learn what services are offered by the bank for business customers.
• Talk to a business owner ans ask questions from the starting business activity, or Visit a business and learn what goes on there or watch a film or show on economics or business and share what you learn or find out about types of savings accounts and figure out what works best for you or compare advertising used by 2 companies to sell the same product. Which would you buy and why?
• Use profits from your business to carry out a project to benefit others or find out how some businesses use their profits to help others. Learn what foundations and grants are.
• Review magazines devoted to business. Find some written for women or people who own their own businesses. Make a list of magazines you would subscribe to if you had your own business.
• Write and complete your own activity.

1980 – Business-Wise

Requirements unknown