BUSINESS STUDIES WEBSITES
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A comprehensive website with activities, student notes, tests and links to other sites.
The site covers economics and business studies. There are notes and examination questions and answers.
www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Economic and demographic information on every country in the world.
Economic and business briefings and articles. Some must be paid for.
Materials on social responsibility.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/
Latest news and archives of materials from the Guardian and Observer newspapers.
http://cms.3m.com/cms/GB/en/1-6/iirzzFZ/view.jhtml
Corporate and social responsibility for 3M
http://www2.coca-cola.com/ourcompany/ourbeliefs.html
http://www2.coca-cola.com/citizenship/index.html
The underlying principles and values of coca cola.
Site for US entrepreneurs.
Many useful articles from Ansoff’s Matrix to Charles Handy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/
The BBC business links page – excellent for both current and archived materials.
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/b/bu/business.html
Excellent US site with links to a range of business topics and articles
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_business.html
Need a useful business quote?
http://www.scjohnson.com/family/fam_com_phi.asp
Fortune magazine’s darling company for social responsibility. This links to S C Johnson’s famous ‘We Believe’ philosophy.
http://www.caci.co.uk/index.html
CACI is the world’s leading direct marketing organisation. Its products are used to classify and target markets.
http://www.learnmarketing.net/
Loads of excellent materials on marketing topics from Ansoff’s matrix to SWOT analysis. It even has some ready made powerpoint slides.
Access the website of one of the’ world’s most expensive to hear live’ management gurus, Tom Peter’s. At least read his words for free! Plenty of marketing and brand articles – see his Brand Café site.