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Study notes with diagrams, and a free web app for network analysis, from the B.B.A. papers I teach. Use them, print them and pass them on.

Study notes

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  • EXIM Policy and DocumentationSemester 5

    Incoterms 2020 explained: all 11 rules, risk and cost on one chart

    What each of the 11 Incoterms 2020 rules means for an exporter: where risk passes, who pays freight, insurance and duties, and what changed from 2010.

  • Principles of ManagementSemester 1

    Fayol's 14 principles of management, with examples

    Henri Fayol's five functions and fourteen principles of management, each with an everyday example, plus the scalar chain, gang plank and Fayol versus Taylor.

  • Research MethodologySemester 6

    Hypothesis testing: steps, p-values, and Type I and Type II errors

    The six steps of a hypothesis test, a worked one-sample z-test, what a p-value does and does not mean, and the four possible outcomes of every test.

  • Managerial EconomicsSemester 1

    Break-even analysis: contribution, P/V ratio and margin of safety

    The break-even formulas, worked through one example drawn to scale: contribution, P/V ratio, break-even point, target profit and margin of safety.

  • Organisational BehaviourSemester 5

    Goleman's five components of emotional intelligence

    Study notes with definitions, workplace examples, a self-check and exam-style questions.

  • Human Resource ManagementSemester 2

    Herzberg's two-factor theory of motivation: hygiene factors and motivators

    Why removing dissatisfaction is not motivating people: Herzberg's study, hygiene factors and motivators, job enrichment, the criticisms, and Maslow compared.

  • Operations Research for ManagersSemester 3

    Critical path method (CPM): a worked example with floats

    How to draw a project network, run the forward and backward passes, find the critical path and work out total, free and independent float, step by step.

  • Operations Research for ManagersSemester 3

    Linear programming: formulation and the graphical method

    How to turn a business problem into an LPP and solve it graphically, with a fully worked example and practice problems.

  • Business LawSemester 5

    Indian Contract Act, 1872: essentials of a valid contract

    Section-by-section notes on what makes an agreement enforceable, with the leading cases and exam-style questions.

  • International BusinessSemester 6

    Modes of entering a foreign market

    Exporting, licensing, franchising, contract manufacturing, joint ventures and wholly owned subsidiaries compared on control, risk and cost, with Indian cases.

  • Business LawSemester 5

    Choosing a legal form for an NGO in India: trust, society or Section 8 company

    How the three main legal forms for non-profits in India compare, and the registrations an NGO needs to receive donations, foreign funds and CSR money.

Free web app

Network Diagram Simulator

A free web app for network analysis in Operations Research. Enter activities, durations and dependencies, and it draws the project network, works out earliest and latest times, floats and the critical path, tests crashing against cost, and plots a Gantt chart.

Open the app ↗ Source code ↗

Papers I teach

Management and people

Marketing and enterprise

  • Marketing Management
  • E-Commerce
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Management of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Numbers and systems

Economics and finance

Law, operations and global business