Blog and updates
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30 Aug 2016
China Enters the Global Aircraft Engine Market
Watch out General Electric, Pratt & Whitney and Rolls Royce. The Chinese have decided to start making aircraft engines.
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30 Aug 2016
Pressure Groups Who Changed the Strategy of Multinationals
Can pressure groups really change the way multinational businesses act? This excellent piece from in The Guardian highlights examples of social and environmental campaigns that pressured companies...
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29 Aug 2016
Stocks and Shares Explained - Lesson Resource
This is a really simple and clear explanation of how stocks and shares work - from the point of view of a shareholder.
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29 Aug 2016
Brilliant Starter Activity - What Happens in an Internet Minute!
I saw this amazing infographic on twitter over the weekend that shows what happens in an internet minute. Its absolutely staggering!
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28 Aug 2016
Prada Changes its Marketing Mix
A topical example here of a necessary change in the marketing mix to support a new marketing strategy.
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28 Aug 2016
Alphabet and GSK Enter £0.5bn Joint Venture to Invest in Bioelectronic Medicines
This looks like a really interesting example of a joint venture between two global multinational businesses - GSK and Alphabet (the parent company of Google).
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28 Aug 2016
More Focus for Dave Lewis & Tesco as Bakery Diversification Ended
Step by step, Tesco CEO Dave Lewis is retrenching back from the failed diversification strategies of his predecessors. This time it is the sale by Tesco of a bakery chain it bought.
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28 Aug 2016
Retrenchment at Frankie & Benny's
One of the UK's largest restaurant operators has decided to close down a substantial number of under-performing locations.
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26 Aug 2016
Technological Change - nuTonomy Steals a Ride in the Global Driverless-Car Race
Watch out Uber and Alphabet (Google). The WSJ reports here that Singapore has became the first country in the world to launch a self-driving taxi service, beating ride-hailing giant Uber T to...
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26 Aug 2016
What's It Like to be an Uber Driver
This investigative video from Channel 4 explores the issues facing some of the 30,000 Uber driversmaking themselves available in London. Lots of interesting issues raised, including business ethics!
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25 Aug 2016
Global Joint Ventures - Uber Partners with Volvo
A great example here of the use of a joint venture. The motivation for this one - between Uber and Volvo - the race to develop driverless cars.
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25 Aug 2016
Shareholders in Revolt at Sports Direct Corporate Governance
The strained relationship between the Board of Sports Direct plc and its shareholders is perhaps the best topical example in the UK at the moment of the issue of corporate governance.
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25 Aug 2016
Edexcel A Level Business 12 mark Homework Activities - Free Resource Download
The new academic year is nearly upon as and Edexcel centres will soon be tackling Theme 3 and Theme 4.
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25 Aug 2016
AQA A Level Business (Year 1) Scheme of Work
Below is a fully editable scheme of work for the AQA Business A Level Year 1.
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25 Aug 2016
Legal Environment: Starbucks Customer Claim Gets An Icy Reception
A great example here of the legal environment facing multinationals like Starbucks.
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25 Aug 2016
AQA A Level (Year 2) Scheme of Work
The new academic year is nearly upon us and for AQA centres Year 2 has lots and lots of new models and theories to keep everyone entertained!
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24 Aug 2016
Blake Mouton in the Office
This is an excellent activity that can be used when teaching Blake Mouton (AQA A Level Year 1).
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24 Aug 2016
Blockbuster and Strategic Drift
There are lots of excellent examples to use when teaching strategic drift but one of my favourites is Blockbuster.
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24 Aug 2016
Banish Bad Odours with Big Data!
We are producing more data than ever before, in fact, so much new data is being produced that 90% of all the data that has ever existed was made in the last few years.
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24 Aug 2016
The Balanced Scorecard Explained
Kaplan and Norton's Balanced Scorecard is one of a number of new models on the AQA A Level Business Specification and this short video is pure gold.
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