Blog and updates
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15 Aug 2016
Long-term Strategy & The Mittelstand - Sennheiser
The Mittelstand - Germany's group of thousands of privately-owned and often world-beating companies - is often used as an example of the benefits of long-term business thinking.
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13 Aug 2016
Can Ikea Succeed in India?
Ikea has started work building its first store in India. Can Ikea succeed where other multinational retailers have struggled?
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12 Aug 2016
Market Supply & Demand: Heavy Losses for New Zealand Dairy Farmers
A slowdown in demand for dairy products from China together with the impact of excess dairy supply is causing the New Zealand dairy industry (the world's largest) to suffer heavy losses.
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12 Aug 2016
Leadership & Strategy: Nine Ways Tim Cook Has Transformed Apple Since He Became CEO
it is now five years since Tim Cook was appointed CEO of Apple. During that period, Apple's revenues have tripled, profits boomed and the business has developed a 1 billion-strong user base. Not bad.
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12 Aug 2016
Retrenchment for Macys
Imagine if M&S announced that it was closing 15% of its stores in the UK. That's the relative significance of an announcement by US department store giant Macy's that it is to close 100...
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4 Aug 2016
Will Free Fruit Help Differentiate the Tesco Shopping Experience?
We all love free - and what's not to like about free fruit as we begin our journey of discovery around one of 800 Tesco supermarkets? The catch? The free fruit will only be for people aged 16 and...
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4 Aug 2016
Uber Calls Time on Winning in China
The challenge of achieving market share in China is beautifully illustrated by the battle that Uber has been facing against local rival Didi. After many billions of losses, Uber has finally decided...
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4 Aug 2016
Gearing Up for Growth - Microsoft Sources Huge Debt Finance
Debentures (or company bonds) are very much back in fashion and the recent use of debt finance by Microsoft to pay for its takeover of LinkedIn is a good example of why.
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4 Aug 2016
Culture Change is Driving Microsoft Performance
An interesting article here from an entrepreneur writing in the FT about how a change in organisational culture at Microsoft has changed the way Microsoft approaches external growth and business...
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4 Aug 2016
Have Tablets Entered the Decline Phase of their Product Life Cycle?
Sales of consumer electronic products often provide excellent examples of the classic bell shape of the traditional product life cycle. Global shipments (sales) of tablet computers such as the iPad...
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20 Jul 2016
Fake Farming - Tesco and Business Ethics
Fancy some beef mince from Boswell's Farms? How about some pork chops from Woodside Farms? No problem. You can get both from Tesco right now. The only problem - Boswell's Farms and Woodside Farms...
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17 Jul 2016
John Lewis Takes the Low-Risk Approach to International Growth
Here's a topical example of how a business can expand into international markets using a relatively low-risk approach.
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17 Jul 2016
Brexit, the Falling Pound and John Lewis Gross Profit Margins
The impact of a falling exchange rate are illustrated with this recent warning from John Lewis on the effect of a significantly weaker £/$ exchange rate.
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17 Jul 2016
Business Teacher Jobs on Sunday
We've had more top teaching opportunities for business teachers posted to the tutor2u jobs board this week.
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13 Jul 2016
AQA A Level Business (Year 2) Topic Worksheets and Case Studies
We are delighted to announce the completion and immediate availability of the our topic worksheets and case studies for Year 2 of the AQA Level Business specification. This superb resource is an...
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13 Jul 2016
Breakeven and Cutting Production Capacity - the Airbus 380
A great example here to use when teaching real-life breakeven analysis.
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13 Jul 2016
Brexit and the Falling Pound - How Does This Affect Households?
As soon as it became clear that the UK had voted to leave the EU the pound Sterling fell sharply against other major currencies. What are the possible implications of this for the UK economy, in...
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13 Jul 2016
The Business Impact of Brexit
What impact is Brexit going to have on UK businesses now that it seems highly likely Brexit will occur?
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7 Jul 2016
Will M&S Follow BHS?
It has been known that M&S have struggled with their clothing sales and this core part of their business has been their weak link.
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1 Jul 2016
Could You Make a Profit From a Cardboard Box?
In the Business Studies department we are setting our new recruits an induction task over the summer holidays to show us what they can do. This years task is to turn a cardboard box into a...
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