Reshoring for Frog Bikes
A terrific example here to use with students as they study the reasons for and choice of production location.
Harriet Green on Big Data and the Internet of Things (IoT)
Former Thomas Cook CEO Harriet Green is now leading IBM's IoT business and she's clearly passionate about the potential for business and societal benefits from harnassing Big Data.
Competitive advantage involves looking for ways of developing and sustaining a significant difference with competitors in often fast-changing markets. How important is taking a long-term...
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.
Can Ikea Succeed in India?
Ikea has started work building its first store in India. Can Ikea succeed where other multinational retailers have struggled?
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Here's a topical example of how a business can expand into international markets using a relatively low-risk approach.
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.
Business Teacher Jobs on Sunday
We've had more top teaching opportunities for business teachers posted to the tutor2u jobs board this week.
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...
AQA A Level Business (Year 2) Calculation Practice Sheets
Our first collection of Calculation Practice Sheets for Year 1 (AS) proved incredibly popular and we're delighted to announce that the first volume of calculation practice sheets for Year 2 of AQA...
Breakeven and Cutting Production Capacity - the Airbus 380
A great example here to use when teaching real-life breakeven analysis.