A-level Business Studies

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• Useful Mnenonic for Business Studies Exams

  

  Tip for answering the higher mark questions in business studies exams Nearly every question in the exam will depend on one or all of the following factors. Therefore, learn these off by heart to get maximum marks in evaluation and analytical questions. Elasticity of demand for...

• Movers & Shakers

  

  Movers & Shakers Interview with Hugh Scholaert, Senior Vice President, Aastra Technologies   Published: 16 Nov 2006 Frost & Sullivan’s analysis of enterprise communication market in Europe picked up Aastra Technologies, Inc. as a strong market participant. Industry Analyst Shomik Banerjee...

• International Engineering Consortium Interview

  

  http://www.iec.org/newsletter/may08_1/analyst_corner.html Interview Summary As service providers grapple with the challenges to develop and open an adaptive infrastructure to deliver personalized services to the individual, HP positions itself as their trusted advisor to help maximize value and...

• Business Review Magazine

  

  I recommend the following: Business Review Magazine This available in print or on-line and at a reduced rate through your school or college. See the April 2012 edition for my article on branding. Business Review includes up-to-date articles relevant to A Level Business Studies students, as well...

• Learning about Business with Dragons ^{Editor's Pick}

  

  AS Business Studies begins by teaching us how new businesses start up. We can of course march happily through our lessons to an A grade with no more than textbook and business examples to hand. But we can also spice up the course a little by competing for business "dragons" investment with a...

• Exam Success in Business Studies

  

  Business Studies students are blessed with the knowledge that there is rarely a right of wrong answer! It's all about being able to make a point and back it up with valid evidence, whether that's based on theoretical knowledge or a case study. The key thing to remember when answering an exam...

• Evaluation tips for Business Studies

  

  General tips for evaluation: At Advanced Level you are required to show a two sided argument. A suggested conclusion to any answer could be: Overall, I think that... because in the short term... in the long term...the most significant point to note is that... another factor leading to this...

• Kraft and Cadbury's

  

  At the moment I am helping my students with their final two Business Studies exams. We are concentrating our BUS4 studies on mergers and acquisitions and have been looking at the Kraft takeover of Cadbury's. If you are doing the same, check out the Sunday Mail website - they had an article on...

• AQA Business Studies book recommendation

  

  I recommend the following: AQA Business Studies by Ian Marcouse. 2nd Edition A highly recommended book as it enables students to consolidate their subject knowledge and build on their powers of analysis.

• Business skills, GMAT and forgetting

  

  It seems that over the last 30 years I have read dozens of articles in which employers bemoan the lack of certain skills in apparently well educated individuals. Comments like, "They can't write letters.. presentation skills are non-existent ... why can't they do simple calculations without a...