Introduction to Business - W23 Update

Introduction to What Is Business? What you’ll learn to do: explain the concept of business The ...

Introduction to For-Profit vs. Nonprofit What you’ll learn to do: distinguish between for-profit...

Introduction to Factors of Production What you’ll learn to do: list and explain the four factors...

Introduction to Functional Areas What you’ll learn to do: identify the primary functional areas ...

Introduction to Stakeholders What you’ll learn to do: identify business stakeholders and describ...

Introduction to External Forces What you’ll learn to do: identify the external forces that shape...

Putting It Together: Role of Business Synthesis Now that you have been exposed to some of the t...

Top Business Frameworks  Business frameworks are practical tools that can assist with problem-so...

A PESTEL analysis or PESTLE analysis (formerly known as PEST analysis) is a framework or tool use...

Porter’s Five Forces analysis is a framework that helps analyze the level of competition within a...

BCG Matrix (also known as the Boston Consulting Group analysis, the Growth-Share matrix, the Bost...

The business model canvas is a great tool to help you understand a business model in a straightfo...

SWOT Analysis (also known as SWOT Matrix) is a business framework that helps assessing a wide var...

A company is in essence a collection of activities that are performed to design, produce, market,...

The Product Life Cycle (PLC) is a marketing framework that helps visualizing and understanding th...

Introduction to Choosing an Organizational Type What you’ll learn to do: list and explain the im...

Introduction to Sole Proprietorships What you’ll learn to do: discuss the advantages and disadva...

Introduction to Partnerships What you’ll learn to do: discuss the advantages and disadvantages o...

Introduction to Corporations What you’ll learn to do: discuss the advantages and disadvantages o...

Introduction to Hybrid Forms of Ownership What you’ll learn to do: discuss the advantages and di...

Introduction to Franchises What you’ll learn to do: discuss the advantages and disadvantages of ...

Introduction to Mergers and Acquisitions What you’ll learn to do: describe the two types of merg...

Putting It Together: Business Ownership Synthesis Now that you have come to the e...

Introduction to Product What you’ll learn to do: explain common product marketing strategies and...

Introduction to Promotion What you’ll learn to do: explain how organizations use integrated mark...

Introduction to Place What you’ll learn to do: explain common product distribution strategies an...

Introduction to Price What you’ll learn to do: explain common pricing strategies and how organiz...

Putting It Together: Marketing Mix Synthesis In this module you have seen how bus...

Introduction to Human Resource Management What you’ll learn to do: explain how the functions of ...

Introduction to Human Resources and Laws What you’ll learn to do: summarize and discuss key laws...

Introduction to Recruitment and Hiring What you’ll learn to do: discuss how organizations can ef...

Introduction to Training, Development, and Rewards What you’ll learn to do: discuss effective ap...

Introduction to Termination What you’ll learn to do: describe the different HR management option...

Introduction to HR Challenges What you’ll learn to do: discuss the challenges facing today’s HR ...

Putting It Together: Human Resource Management Synthesis Since the 1900s, American society has ...

Introduction to Accounting in Business What you’ll learn to do: define accounting, and explain i...

Introduction to Key Financial Statements What you’ll learn to do: identify key financial stateme...

Introduction to the Break-Even Point What you’ll learn to do: calculate the break-even point, wh...

Introduction to Financial Ratios What you’ll learn to do: use financial statements to calculate ...

Introduction to Ethical Practices in Accounting What you’ll learn to do: discuss the importance ...

Putting It Together: Accounting and Finance Synthesis Whether or not this module convinced yo...

Introduction to Managers What you’ll learn to do: describe the three levels of management and th...

Introduction to Management Theory What you’ll learn to do: summarize the development of manageme...

Introduction to Planning What you’ll learn to do: identify the types of planning and decision ma...

Introduction to Organizing What you’ll learn to do: describe the organizing function of manageme...

Introduction to Leading What you’ll learn to do: describe common management and leadership style...

Introduction to Controlling What you’ll learn to do: explain why control is an essential part of...

Putting It Together: Management Summary Managers Managers wear many hats and must bring with t...

Introduction to Globalization What you’ll learn to do: explain why nations and U.S. firms engage...

Introduction to Measuring Global Trade What you’ll learn to do: describe how nations measure glo...

Introduction to Global Business Strategies What you’ll learn to do: evaluate common strategies u...

Introduction to Global Trade Forces What you’ll learn to do: identify and describe forces that a...

Introduction to Global Trade Agreements and Organizations What you’ll learn to do: describe glob...

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Introduction to Ethical Challenges in the Global Environment What you’ll learn to do: describe e...

Synthesis Remember the humble banana we talked about at the start of this module? ...

Introduction to Technological Changes in Business What you’ll learn to do: Discuss the role of t...

Introduction to How Businesses Use Information What you’ll learn to do: discuss ways in which in...

Introduction to Information Networks What you’ll learn to do: compare the ways that businesses c...

Introduction to Current Issues in IT What you’ll learn to do: Identify security, privacy and eth...

Putting It Together: Using Technology to Manage Business Information Summary In this module you...

Introduction to What Is Economics? What you’ll learn to do: explain what economics is and why it...

Introduction to Economic Systems What you’ll learn to do: describe and differentiate between maj...

Introduction to Demand What you’ll learn to do: explain the law of demand Imagine that the pric...

Introduction to Supply What you’ll learn to do: explain the law of supply So far, you’ve learne...

Introduction to Equilibrium What you’ll learn to do: explain market equilibrium, surplus, and sh...

Introduction to the Health of the Economy What you’ll learn to do: describe how economists evalu...

Introduction to Economic Stages What you’ll learn to do: identify and explain the four stages of...

Putting It Together: Economic Environment Synthesis In this module, you learned a...

The Book Slides have been Canadianized. Changes are noted under each chapter.  1. Introduction ...