The author's goals in writing Exploring
Business is to introduce students to business in an exciting way and
provide faculty with a fully developed teaching package that allows them to do
the former. Topics covered includes: The Foundations of Business, Business
Ethics and Social Responsibility, Business in a Global Environment, Selecting a
Form of Business Ownership, The Challenges of Starting a Business, Managing for
Business Success, Recruiting, Motivating, and Keeping Quality Employees,
Teamwork and Communications, Marketing Providing Value to Customers, Product
Design and Development, Operations Management in Manufacturing and Service
Industries, The Role of Accounting in Business, Managing Financial Resources,
Personal Finances, Managing Information and Technology, The Legal and Regulatory
Environment of Business.
This book is designed to help prepare
future entrepreneurs to formalize and communicate their business idea to a
variety of audiences including potential funders such as banks, other lending
institutions, government agencies, and venture capitalists. This course will
help ensure that future entrepreneurs understand how to conduct a competitor
analysis by asking key questions about their competitors.
Objective of this note is to provide a basic
understanding of various statutory provisions that confronts business managers
while taking decisions. Topics covered includes: The Indian Contract Act: 1872,
Contingent contract, Quasi contract, essentials of partnership, Rights and
duties of partner, types of partners, Dissolution of partnership, Sale of Goods
Act, Contract of Agency, Relationship of Principal and Agent, Memorandum, The
Consumer Protection Act, Cyber Law, Types of Cyber Crimes.
This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were
designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for
developing a business plan. Topics covered includes: Developing a Business Plan,
Essential Initial Research, Business Models, Initial Business Plan Draft ,
Making the Business Plan Realistic, Making the Plan Appeal to Stakeholders and
Desirable to the Entrepreneur, Finishing the Business Plan, Business Plan
Pitches.
Author(s): Lee Swanson, University of
Saskatchewan
This note explores successful approaches to delivering healthcare in
challenging settings. It analyses organizations to find why some fall short
while others grow in size and contribute to the health of the people they serve,
and explore promising business models and social enterprise innovations.
The purpose of this note is to advance your understanding of how to use
financial information to value and analyze firms. We will apply your
economics/accounting/finance skills to problems from today's business news to
help us understand what is contained in financial reports, why firms report
certain information, and how to be a sophisticated user of this information.
Going green, green business, and sustainable business are topics on
everyone’s mind. But what does all this mean exactly? A Primer on Sustainable
Business answers that question and provides an introduction to the basics you
need to know. Topics covered includes: Operations Management, Human Resources,
Finance, Research and Development, Marketing, IT and MIS, Accounting,
Sustainability Strategy and Sustainable Business with Case Examples.
This
book introduces new insights into new problems in the aspects of performance and
quality improvement, networking and logistics in the interconnected world, as
well as developments in monetary and financial environment surrounding private
enterprises today.
This book covers
the following topics: The possibility of increasing human efficiency,
imitation as a means of increasing human efficiency, competition as a means of
increasing human efficiency, loyalty as a means of increasing human efficiency,
concentration as a means of increasing human efficiency, wages as a means of
increasing human efficiency, pleasure as a means of increasing human efficiency,
the love of the game and efficiency, relaxation as a means of increasing human
efficiency, the rate of improvement in efficiency: practice plus theory, making
experience an asset: judgment formation, capitalizing experience: habit
formation.
The object of
this paper is to discuss money-making; to examine its prevalence as an aim among
people generally and the moral standards which obtain among those who
consciously seek to make money.
This is a lecture the
President of The Bank of California Frank B. Anderson presented before the
students of The University of Califronia in Berkley February 15, 1911. It is
about Morals and Honesty within trade and commerce.