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Business Management (New Syllabus)
IB DP Category 2
Paris, France, 21 - 23 February 2025
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Business Management: A focus on internal assessment
IB DP Category 3
Online (IB Approved), 21 - 23 March 2025
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Paper 3 in Business Management (focus on social enterprises)
Virtual Think-In, 13 January 2025
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Paper 2 DP Business Management (quantitative techniques)
Virtual Think-In, 15 January 2025
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The IA in the DP Business Management
Virtual Think-In, 17 January 2025
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Paper 2
The Paper 2 exam (first assessments 2024) The Paper 2 exam is different from those in previous iterations of the syllabus. A significant change is that the stimulus material will be presented in parts,...
1 - Intro to BM
1 - Intro to BM Free
Unit 1 - Introduction to Business Management The first unit of the IB Business Management syllabus provides the introductory context to business management. Unit 1 examines both the internal and external...
1 - Intro to BM
Economies & diseconomies of scale
Internal & external economies and diseconomies of scale (AO2) Economies of scale enable a business to benefit from lower average costs (the cost per unit) by increasing the size of its operations. Hence,...
1 - Intro to BM
Types of for-profit organizations
Types of for-profit organizations (AO3) This section of the IB Business Management syllabus covers the following types of for-profit (commercial) organizations: Sole traders Partnerships Privately held...
1 - Intro to BM
External growth methods
External growth methods (AO3) "We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."- Oprah Winfrey (b. 1954), American television producer, author, and philanthropist External growth (or inorganic...
1 - Intro to BM
For-profit social enterprises
Types of for-profit social enterprises (AO3) Source: TradeKindness “Social and environmental dimensions are woven into the fabric of the company itself. They are neither first nor last among our objectives,...
BMT
BMT 2 - Ansoff matrix
Business Management Toolkit 2 - Ansoff matrix The Ansoff growth matrixSource: adapted from Ansoff, I.: Strategies for Diversification, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 35 Issue 5, Sep-Oct 1957, pp. 113-124...
BMT
BMT 3 - STEEPLE analysis
Business Management Toolkit 3 - STEEPLE analysis “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.”- George Bernard Shaw (1856 -1950),...
1 - Intro to BM
The interests of stakeholders
The interests of stakeholders (AO2) Stakeholders are individuals, businesses, or groups with a vested interest in the activities and outcomes of a specific organization. All stakeholder groups are directly...
1 - Intro to BM
1.5 Growth and evolution Free
Unit 1.5 - Growth and evolution This section of the IB Business Management syllabus examines the growth and evolution of business organizations. Almost all businesses strive to grow, whether this is...