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Business Management for the IB Diploma Study and Revision Guide
by Paul HoangThis Study and Revision Guide will ensure you approach your exams feeling confident and prepared through the help of accurate and accessible notes, examiner advice, and exam-style questions on each key topic.- Practise and check your understanding on a range of Exam Practice questions- Be aware of the essential points with key terms and facts for each topic- Discover what you need to achieve certain grades with advice and tips, including common mistakes to avoid. Answers are free online at: www.hoddereducation.com/IBextras
Business Mastery: A Guide For Creating A Fulfilling, Thrivin Practice And Keeping It Successful, Fifth Edition
by Cherie M. Sohnen-MoeFor the past three decades, Business Mastery has served as a trusted guide for people seeking to live their career dreams. It is specifically designed to support readers on their journey to a fulfilling and financially rewarding career. In the pages of this innovative, time-tested book, readers will find everything needed to launch and effectively manage a thriving practice. It also includes practical tools and tips for how to market one,,s skills, work smarter, develop alliances through networking, fine-tune communication skills, and increase profits. The 5th edition is completely updated and includes new information about the psychological aspects of purchasing, the purchasing cycle, how to effectively build an online presence, and tips on how Internet marketing can boost business growth. Business Mastery is filled with resources to help readers stay balanced, increase their client base, get organized, clearly define goals, and, most importantly, keep doing what they,,re passionate about while creating an excellent income stream. Developing business savvy is key to success%whether working for someone else or being self-employed. Whichever path is chosen, readers can count on Business Mastery to help make their dreams a reality.
Business Math: The Mathematics of Money
by Timothy J. BiehlerThe Mathematics of Money (3rd edition) covers general financial principles and the mathematical tools needed to understand and make use of those principles. <p><p> The Mathematics of Money is intended for use in college-level business and financial mathematics courses, and it does not assume that students have any particular level of math experience other than the ability to do basic arithmetic calculations with the aid of a calculator.
Business Model Pioneers: How Innovators Successfully Implement New Business Models (Management for Professionals)
by Kai-Ingo Voigt Oana Buliga Kathrin MichlBusiness model innovations are conceived and implemented by a special type of entrepreneur: business model pioneers. This book presents 14 compelling case studies of business model pioneers and their companies, who have successfully introduced new business ideas to the market. The examples range from industries such as retail, media and entertainment to services and industrial projects. For each example, the book provides information on the market environment at the time of launch and illustrates the driving forces behind these business models. Moreover, current market developments are highlighted and linked to the evolution of the business models. Lastly, the authors present the profile of a typical business model pioneer.
The Business of Bees: An Integrated Approach to Bee Decline and Corporate Responsibility
by Jill Atkins Barry AtkinsOur bee populations are under threat. Over the past 60 years, they have lost much of their natural habitat and are under assault from pesticides and intensive farming. We rely on bees and other insects to pollinate our fruit and vegetables and, without them, our environment and economy will be in crisis.The Business of Bees provides the first integrated account of diminishing bee populations, as well as other pollinators, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It explores the role of corporate responsibility and governance as they relate to this critical issue and examines what the impact will be on consumers, companies, stock markets and ultimately on global society if bee populations continue to decline at a dangerous rate.The book considers the issue of global bee population decline from a variety of disciplines, combining the perspectives of academics in accounting, science and humanities with those of practitioners in the finance industry. The chapters explore the impact of the rapid decline in pollinator populations on the natural world, on corporations, on the stock market and on accounting. The Business of Bees will be essential reading for those in academia, business and finance sectors and anyone invested in the future of our planet.
The Business of Creativity: How to Build the Right Team for Success
by Keith GranetLong known as the go-to management consultant of the design world, Keith Granet reveals more of his clear-eyed insights about running a creative business in this follow-up to his book The Business of Design. While aimed at creative enterprises, Granet's advice, quickly summarized as "know what you do best and focus on that," applies to any organization, small or large, commercial or nonprofit. He delves into the skill sets and people needed to grow a business, as well as the things you don't need (bad clients, bad employees, negative energy), in an engaging and easy-to-implement manner. His shrewd understanding, gleaned from decades of consulting for brands like Harrods, Pantone, John Varvatos, and Urban Archeology, makes this essential reading for anyone managing a business or thinking of starting one.
The Business of Fashion: Designing, Manufacturing, And Marketing
by Leslie Davis Burns Kathy K. Mullet Nancy O. BryantLearn how fashions lines are designed, manufactured, marketed, and distributed. The book covers the full supply chain - from textiles to fashion brand production to retailing - as well as supply chain management, and competitive strategies, so that you can be successful in your future career. Topics covered include sustainable design for a circular economy, 3-D printing, fashion entrepreneurship, disruptions in fashion calendars, supply chain transparency, impact of social media, growth and evolution of online retailing, expanded omnichannel strategies, and changes in international trade, among others. Case studies, a Career Glossary, and key terms help you connect concepts to practice.
The Business of Good: Social Entrepreneurship and the New Bottom Line
by Jason HaberThe Business of Good narrates the story behind social entrepreneurship as told by the individuals compelled to create a change in the world--not just another business. Serial and social entrepreneur Jason Haber intertwines case studies, anecdotes, and initiatives that have become part of the larger narrative of entrepreneurship.From Main Street to Wall Street, today's social entrepreneurs are rebooting capitalism, challenging the charitable industrial complex, and are disrupting the way companies do business with exciting innovations designed to solve society's most vexing problems. In this book, Haber examines Capitalism 2.0, philanthropy, and the role and power of media alongside the world's response as social entrepreneurship changes how we give, how we invest, and who we are.
The Business of News in England, 1760–1820 (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media)
by Victoria E. GardnerThe Business of News in England, 1760-1820 explores the commerce of the English press during a critical period of press politicization, as the nation confronted foreign wars and revolutions that disrupted domestic governance.
Business on a Mission: How to Build a Sustainable Brand
by Andy LastBronze winner of the AXIOM Business Book Award in the category of Philanthropy, Non-Profit, Sustainability. Please see: http://www.axiomawards.com/77/award-winners/2017-winners This easy-to-read and engaging book is the perfect introduction to how to build a sustainable brand for your organization. Intended as a roadmap that can be readily applied by busy managers and practitioners, the book includes interviews with business leaders, including Paul Polman of Unilever, Adam Elman of Marks & Spencer, and Jonas Prising of ManpowerGroup to provide insight into best practice and clear guidance for implementation. Throughout, the book avoids jargon and theorizing to ensure readability. Business on a Mission is based on more than a decade working with some of the first businesses to develop social missions and shows the foundations behind their success. It looks at how businesses can profit from working hand in hand with society and identifies a model for success. The book demonstrates how businesses can go from hiding behind "social shields" to picking up "social swords" and presents the six criteria to look for in assessing a social mission. It also focuses on how good communications can build trust and bring about positive change; and it provides clear ways to engage employees and improve productivity as well as "rules" for communicating social missions externally. This optimistic book explains the benefits of partnerships in the sustainable development agenda, particularly between businesses and NGOs. The book features guidelines for avoiding dysfunctional partnerships, and presents interviews with Marc Van Ameringen, Executive Director of GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition) 2005 to 2016, and Myriam Sidibe, Social Mission Director for Africa, Unilever, on how things can be managed to the benefit of both partners. .
Business Partnering: A Practical Handbook
by Steven SwientozielskyjA Business Partner is a professional who supports and advises strategic and operational decision-making through insights that drive better business performance. Often as a result of external changes, business partners must respond quickly to map out the future strategic development, keep the firm competitive and ensure all objectives and legal requirements are met. In this book, business partnering expert Steven Swientozielskyj introduces a framework that provides a set of practical tools and techniques via a simple six stage model that, when replicated, will take the practitioner from start to finish through strategic change; from the formation and agreement of the strategy to its delivery and sustainability. Business Partnering is a one-stop shop for understanding this important phenomenon and as such will be vital reading for practitioners and academics in the business arena.
Business Planning im Gesundheitswesen: Die Bewertung neuer Gesundheitsleistungen aus unternehmerischer Perspektive
by Wolf RogowskiDieses Lehrbuch bietet eine Einführung ins Business Planning für die Gesundheitswirtschaft - einem wichtigen Baustein der erfolgreichen Übertragung neuer medizinischer Erkenntnisse in die klinische und Public-Health-Praxis. Dabei schlägt es eine Brücke von der Frage, ob eine Innovationsidee eine gesellschaftlich wünschenswerte Verwendung knapper Ressourcen der Gesundheitsversorgung bedeutet, zur Betrachtung, ob und wie die Idee auch aus betriebswirtschaftlicher Sicht finanziell nachhaltig umgesetzt werden kann. Anhand verschiedener Kapitel eines Businessplans werden nicht nur Kriterien und Methoden zur kritischen Prüfung vorgestellt, sondern auch zentrale Entscheidungsträger über die Finanzierung auf dem ersten und zweiten Gesundheitsmarkt (Thema ,,Market Access") vorgestellt. Das Lehrbuch eignet sich für betriebswirtschaftliche oder gesundheitswissenschaftliche Studiengänge mit betriebswirtschaftlichem Schwerpunkt. Für Masterstudiengänge bietet es, insbesondere im Bereich der Lebenswissenschaften, eine unternehmerisch orientierte Einführung in das deutsche Gesundheitswesen und gibt einen anwendungsorientierten Überblick in Fragen des Gesundheitsmanagements.
Business Plans That Get Investment: A Real-World Guide on How to Write a Business Plan
by David BatemanYour business plan: turn ten minutes of attention into investment."David's book is an invaluable resource for any entrepreneur seeking to raise funding. Based on years of experience, David shows how to keep things short and clear!" --Thomas Hellmann, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford"Anyone interested in this subject should read this book." --Tim Hames, Director General of BVCA (British Venture Capital Association)The Business Plan is an essential tool for attracting an investor’s attention. They receive hundreds of plans every week and spend no more than ten minutes on each one before deciding if it is of further interest. This means that the plan needs to be a short, snappy document that conveys the facts about your business quickly and clearly.This book explains how to write a plan that has the information that an investor needs to see. It shows that it is a simple process and anyone can do it, irrespective of background or prior knowledge.Business Plans That Get Investment is a clear and comprehensive guide to writing a plan that turns those ten minutes of attention into investment.
Business Process Management Forum: BPM Forum 2016, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 18-22, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #260)
by Oscar Pastor Marcello La Rosa Peter LoosThis book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum from the International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2016, held in Rio de Janeiro, September 2016. The BPM Forum aims at gathering papers that showcase fresh ideas and emerging topics in BPM. They have to demonstrate substantial potential for stimulating interesting discussions, even if they are not yet completely matured. This way, 13 full papers were selected from 106 submissions, where each paper was reviewed by four PC members and by one Senior PC member who moderated the discussion and wrote the meta-review. The selected papers in this volume cover topics related to process modeling, process execution and management aspects of the BPM discipline.
Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2015, 13th International Workshops, Innsbruck, Austria, August 31 – September 3, 2015, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #256)
by Manfred Reichert Hajo A. ReijersThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ten international workshops held in Innsbruck, Austria, in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2015, in September 2015. The seven workshops comprised Adaptive Case Management and other Non-workflow Approaches to BPM (AdaptiveCM 2015), Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2015), Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2 2015), Data- and Artifact-centric BPM (DAB 2015), Decision Mining and Modeling for Business Processes (DeMiMoP 2015), Process Engineering (IWPE 2015), and Theory and Applications of Process Visualization (TaProViz 2015). The 42 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. In addition, four short papers and one keynote (from TAProViz) are also included in this book.
Business Project Management and Marketing: Mastering Business Markets (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
by Wulff Plinke Michael Kleinaltenkamp Ingmar GeigerMarketing and implementing large-volume orders and major projects calls for specific types of expertise. This textbook deals with all of the management tasks involved: order management, inquiry evaluation and proposal preparation, pricing and revenue planning, order financing and financial engineering, contract management, negotiation management, project management, and finally project cooperation. Adopting a cross-sector perspective, it examines both traditional manufacturing industries and business-to-business services. All contributions are presented in an accessible style, making the book well-suited as both a managerial textbook and valuable practical guide.
Business Strategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis: A Survey on Italian SMEs
by Laura GavinelliThis book focuses on the relationshipbetween business strategy and competition among Italian SMEs in the aftermathof the economic crisis. First examining business strategy and competitiveadvantage in a broader sense, BusinessStrategies and Competitiveness in Times of Crisis goes on to analyse thestrategic behaviour of SMEs and the key factors that allow them to overcome thechallenges they face. The book covers wide-ranging topics such as marketing andcommunication strategies, internationalization process and entry modes, accessto credit, networking, innovation process and human resources enhancement. Referring to insightful case studies and surveys conducted between 2011 and2014, it reflects on managerial implications for Italian SMEs and identifiestheir three main competitive challenges.
Business Trends in the Digital Era: Evolution of Theories and Applications
by Rui Li Xiaoming Zhu Bingying Song Yingzi Ni Yifan RenThis book introduces 10 mega business trends, ranging from big data to the O2O model. By mining and analyzing mountains of data, the author identifies these 10 emerging trends and goes to great lengths to explain and support his views with up-to-date cases. By incorporating the latest developments, this book allows readers to keep abreast of rapidly advancing digital technologies and business models. In this time of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, acquiring deep insights into business trends and grasping opportunities for innovation give readers (business executives in particular) and their companies a competitive advantage and the potential to become the next success story. The Chinese version of the book has become a hit, with some business schools using it as a textbook for their S&T Innovation and Business Trends programs. It also provides business executives with a practical guide for their investment and operation decisions.
Business Value and Sustainability: An Integrated Supply Network Perspective
by Ki-Hoon Lee Stephan VachonThis book connects business sustainability to supply network-based value creation and enhancement, and tests a number of key propositions in complex supply networks to identify key challenges. Examining practical issues such as carbon trading, green product development, worker safety, child labour and relations with local communities, Business Value and Sustainability advances the understanding of sustainability in supply network management. In presenting a supply management perspective including a tighter control of the supply base and the development of supplier capability through collaboration with NGOs, the authors contribute to both the theoretical advancement and practical development of this field. The book aims to raise the sustainability standards of businesses in an increasingly complex and inter- and intra-connected global supply network.
Business, Value Creation, and Society: Managing Corporate Impacts
by Jennifer J. GriffinManaging Corporate Impacts draws on the insights and experiences of managers from around the world to examine how companies can manage corporate impacts to co-create enduring value for business and society. Corporate impacts - the points at which businesses create or destroy value with others - extend well beyond financial impacts to include the workplace, procurement and delivery of goods and services, and shaping perceptions held about corporate behavior. This book uses simple frameworks to demonstrate why and how today's corporations co-create enduring value with multiple stakeholders simultaneously. By introducing multiplier effects and spillover effects, the frameworks move the attention of management beyond direct impacts to examine indirect impacts that create or destroy value connected to the core of the business. By purposely connecting with stakeholders through information-sharing, and effectively managing myriad impacts along supply and distribution chains, companies are poised to provide solutions and co-create value.
Business Writing Scenarios Writing from the Inside
by Jon RamseyWritten by an experienced instructor of business writing courses, Business Writing Scenarios offers a hands on approach that immerses students in the types of writing situations they will encounter throughout their working lives. Detailed guidance and numerous examples help students build the skills they will need to respond to these situations effectively. In each of the core chapters, students first learn how other writers addressed a particular writing situation—such as having to convey disappointing news to employees, explain a major policy change, or respond to a difficult customer—effectively or ineffectively. Students then apply what they’ve learned through guided activities ("applications") that ask them to respond in writing to a similar business scenario. Additionally, the book emphasizes the potentially serious consequences of ill-considered business communications, especially those delivered electronically. A chapter dedicated to business writing gaffes provides many real-world examples of these mistakes and advises students on how to avoid them. Suitable for use on its own or in conjunction with another text, Business Writing Scenarios is a useful addition to any course building students business writing skills.
Business Writing Today: A Practical Guide
by Natalie C. CanavorConfident writers succeed. Whether you aim for a career in the business, nonprofit or government world, good writing equips you to stand out. In this accessible and reader-friendly book, Natalie Canavor shares a step-by-step framework to help you write strategically, win opportunities, and perform better on the job. You’ll know what to say and how to say it in any medium from email to blog, cover letter, proposal, resume, report, website, tweet, news release, and more. You’ll discover practical, grammar-free techniques to improve all your writing and learn how to recognize and fix your own problems with clear demonstrations. Business Writing Today, Second Edition, gives you tools, techniques and inside tips drawn from the worlds of journalism, corporate communications and public relations. It prepares you to better understand the business world and communicate in ways that achieve your own immediate and long range goals in today’s highly competitive work environment.
Business Writing Today: A Practical Guide
by Natalie CanavorConfident writers succeed. Whether you aim for a career in the business, nonprofit or government world, good writing equips you to stand out. In this accessible and reader-friendly book, Natalie Canavor shares a step-by-step framework to help you write strategically, win opportunities, and perform better on the job. You’ll know what to say and how to say it in any medium from email to blog, cover letter, proposal, resume, report, website, tweet, news release, and more. You’ll discover practical, grammar-free techniques to improve all your writing and learn how to recognize and fix your own problems with clear demonstrations. Business Writing Today, Second Edition, gives you tools, techniques and inside tips drawn from the worlds of journalism, corporate communications and public relations. It prepares you to better understand the business world and communicate in ways that achieve your own immediate and long range goals in today’s highly competitive work environment.
Business Zen: Mit Achtsamkeit zu mehr Gelassenheit in der Führung
by André Daiyû SteinerDas Buch führt den Leser in die Welt des Business-Zen ein. Von der Geschichte des Zen bis zu praktischen Übungen wird der ganze Bogen des Zen-Leaderships gespannt. Dabei teilt der Autor mit dem Leser nicht nur Geschichten und Erfahrungen aus der Zen-Tradition, sondern auch Erkenntnisse aus der aktuellen Forschung aus Psychologie, Neurologie sowie aus der Management-Lehre. Auch eine Zen-Business-Ethik wird vorgestellt - nicht als Appell sondern als Angebot, Führungspersönlichkeiten bei ihren Herausforderungen zu unterstützen. Ein Einblick in das achtsamkeitsbasierte Leadership-Training verhilft dem Leser, die besprochenen Übungen sofort umzusetzen. Zum Abschluss wird ein Trainingsweg in all seinen Facetten aufgezeigt: die Meditation, die Arbeit an Körper und Geist usw.
Businessplan für Dummies
by Steven D. Peterson Paul TiffanySie möchten sich selbstständig machen möchten, einen Kredit für Ihre Firma aufnehmen oder die Strategie Ihres Unternehmens planen? Für all das benötigen Sie einen Businessplan. Er ist die Grundlage für Ihr Unternehmen und entscheidet über dessen Erfolg oder Misserfolg. Dieses Buch hilft Ihnen, sich im Dschungel der Marktmöglichkeiten, Konkurrenzanalysen und Verkaufsprognosen zurecht zu finden. Das Ergebnis: eine erfolgreiche Strategie und ein professioneller Businessplan, der Ihre potenziellen Geldgeber überzeugen wird!