| Management and Leadership |
Production Managemet |
| Douglas McGregor: Theory X and Theory Y |
What is Lean Manufacturing? |
| Transformational vs. Transactional Leadership |
What is 5S Production? |
| Max Weber’s three types of authority |
What is Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)? |
| Kurt Lewin's Leadership Styles |
Kanban Inventory System |
| What is Blake & Mouton's Managerial Grid? |
JIDOKA |
| What is Paternalistic Leadership? |
What is Concurrent Engineering? |
| What is the Situational Leadership Theory? |
Mass Customization Production |
| What is William Ouchi’s Theory Z of Leadership? |
What is the Learning Curve? |
| What are Henri Fayol's 5 functions of management? |
What are the Seven Types of Waste? (MUDA) |
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| Business Strategy |
Accounting |
| What are Michael Porter's 5 forces? |
Return on Investment (ROI) |
| Howard Perlmutter: Internationalization of Multinational Corporations |
Return on Assets (ROA) |
| Global strategies for MNCs: Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal |
Return on Equity (ROE) |
| What is the Balanced Scorecard? |
Return on Sales (ROS) |
| What is the PESTEL Framework? |
Return on Capital Employed (ROCE) |
| What is the BCG Matrix? |
Contribution Margin and Contribution Margin Ratio |
| What is a SWOT analysis? |
Asset Turnover |
| What is Michael Porter's Value Chain? |
Inventory Turnover |
| What is Michael Porter's Diamond Model? |
Accounts Receivable Turnover Ratio |
| What is Michael Porter's Generic Strategy Model? |
Accounts Payable Turnover Ratio |
| What is a Diversification Strategy? |
Financial Budgets (Profit & Loss) |
| What is Related Diversification? |
What is ABC Costing? (Activity Based Costing) |
| What is Unrelated Diversification Strategy? |
What is Full Costing? |
| What is a Blue Ocean Strategy? |
What is Target Costing? |
| What is Supply Chain Management? |
What is Controlling? |
| Supply Chain Management: Upstream Activities |
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| Supply Chain Management: In-house Activities |
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| Supply Chain Management: Downstream Activities |
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| Backward and Forward Integration |
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| Human Resource |
Organizational Theory |
| Frederick Herzberg's Motivation and Hygiene Factors |
What is Contingency Theory? |
| What is Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs? |
Jay R. Galbraith: Information Processing View |
| Victor Vroom's Expectancy Theory (VIE-model) |
Max Weber’s theory of Bureaucracy |
| What is the Hawthorne Effect? |
Mechanistic vs. Organic Organizational Structure (Contingency Theory) |
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What is Transaction Cost Theory?
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What is a Simple Organizational Structure? |
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What is a Functional Organizational Structure? |
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What is a Divisional Organizational Structure? |
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What is a Matrix Structure? |
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What is Scientific Management (Frederick Winslow Taylor) |
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What are Henri Fayol’s 14 Principles of Management? |
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What is Bounded Rationality? Herbert A. Simon |
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| National and Organizational Culture |
Marketing |
| What are Geert Hofstede's 5 Cultural Dimensions? |
Marketing Mix |
| What are Fons Trompenaar's Cultural Dimensions? |
What are the 4 p's of marketing? |
| Edgar H. Schein's Model of Organizational Culture |
What is a Market Segmentation Analysis? (Market Positioning) |
| National Culture Vs. Organizational Culture |
What is Relationship Marketing? (Customer Retention Tactics) |
| Organizational Culture: An Informal Control Mechanism |
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| Important Business Terms |
Green Business |
| Annual Report |
Green Strategy: Winners of the Future |
| Arbitrage |
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| Benchmarking |
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| Commodity |
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| Competitive Advantage |
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| Core Competencies |
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| Economies of Scale |
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| Environmental Scanning |
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| Inco Terms |
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| Invisible Hand |
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| Lead Time |
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| Predatory Pricing |
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| Statistical Process Control |
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| Strategic Alliances |
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| Strategic Group Mapping |
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| Time to Market (TTM) |
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| Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) |
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