Resources for IB DP Business Management
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- Resources for IB DP Business Management
Textbook and Workbook for the new syllabus (for first exams May 2024)
Business Management for the IB Diploma, 5th edn, IBID Press ISBN: 9781921917820 | IB Business Management Toolkit Workbook, Hodder Education ISBN: 9781398358409 |
The best-selling and most comprehensive textbook (at 762 pages) that is available for the IB Business Management course, with over 126,800 copies sold worldwide - which is around 250 tonnes or 2 jumbo jets full (cargo configuration) - and now in its 5th edition and rewritten to cover all aspects of the new course. There is an accompanying answer book, with full mark schemes for all 230 exam-style questions in the textbook. An accompanying and fully revised PowerPoint Pack is also available. This is the new 5th edition of the best-selling textbook for the IB DP course, published by IBID Press. For those interested in using the 5th edition as their main textbook, please contact Jodie Henry from IBID Press (the publisher) directly: [email protected] Details can be found here, where you can also download a complimentary chapter featuring one of the tools in the new "Business Management Toolkit" in the 5th edition textbook. There is also an e-book version available via the Box of Books platform. At the time of writing, IBID Press has dispatched more than 16,870 copies of the 5th edn. textbook to teachers and students across the world. Testimonials for 5th edition "Just received the 5th Edition e-book version - looks absolutely awesome! This will be invaluable for students.” "Thank you so much for the 5th edition of your textbook. It provides our students with everything they need for success at HL and SL Business Management. They all love the book as it is so much better than anything else on the market." "Congratulations Paul! Your textbooks are the best." "The best textbook since its launch in 2007. Every edition, including this one, has something more to delight the learning experience." "We are currently using your book (5th edition) in our IB Business and Management course at our school. I would like to first express my gratitude for all the work and sources that you make available to my colleagues and I. These make my day-to-day tasks much easier." "Your textbook is OUTSTANDING! Can’t tell you how resourceful it’s been for me." "You're the definitive author(ity) on this subject matter Paul. This new edition is outstanding! Keep doing the awesome things you do." "I wanted to let you know that your Business Management book is a godsend, and you have been the reason that my stress levels are manageable :) Thank you again for a very thoughtful book!" "When you look at the markscheme and how the IB expects student responses to be structured, Paul Hoang's textbook makes the most sense. His book is written in a similar structure so the student can transition what they are learning in the textbook to their assessments." "Recently, our school replaced the old Business Management textbook with your's. I wanted to personally compliment the effort you've put into the book; it's very in-depth, organized, and overall a great companion to the course. It's helped a lot with exam revision and content understanding. In addition, all the business teachers here refer to you as the "Business Management Guru", and I think now I can understand why!" "Paul Hoang - Thanks so much ... your book is hands down the best." "Your book was our friend and companion during nights of insomnia as it guided us in our IA and EE papers. I majored in Business at university and now just wanted to say - your book has helped us tremendously and prepared me for my current work and studying. Thank you for your contribution to our academic success. We hope you continue to motivate future students with your exceptional works. I absolutely love your book and the kind of solutions it provides, and I was thrilled with the impact that this book has made on me and my life." "I would like to start off my thanking you immensely for all of the help that your textbook has provided me with being a consistent 7 student in Business Management. I attribute all of my success to you and thank you for helping Business Management students like me. Thank you again for everything you do!" I would like to thank you for whiting this book. I am having an amazing time studying it in my IB Business Management class." "Hoang's textbook is the best when it comes to complex ideas and really going in depth. The questions inside the book really helped with my exams." "I have been using earlier versions of this text until now, and it is unquestionably the standard to which all other books attempt to measure up." | Business Management Toolkit Workbook for the new syllabus (first teaching July/Aug 2022), available now for pre-order from Hodder Education. The workbook contains a set of over 80 exam-practice questions for the entirety of the toolkit, to hep students practice the skills needed for the new Paper 2 assessment. Answers will be available free of charge from the publisher's website. "Thanks a lot for all your amazing books and wise #ibbusinessmanagement tips. Our school in Cali, Colombia https://colombobritanico.edu.co has achieved amazing results because of your guidance.This new workbook arrives as a great tool!" "Highly recommended for any BM department. Great resource to have, with solutions in easy format to follow. Thanks for saving me weekends of prep work!" |
Business Management Workbook, 5th edn ISBN: 9781921917837 This fully revised Workbook is intended for use by students following the International Baccalaureate course in Business Management (first exams 2024) and accompanies the main textbook, now in its fifth edition. The Workbook can be used as end-of-topic reviews throughout the two-year course or it can simply be used as a revision tool prior to the examinations. There are cloze ‘fill-in-the-blank’ tasks, key terms and concepts quizzes, short-answer examination-style questions, and over 900 multiple choice questions. The latest edition has been co-authored with Dr. Rima Puri. Testimonials "Excellent workbook with exercises for all components of the IB business management syllabus. This resource is a gold mine, and just brilliant for revision purposes! Thank you." "This resource is absolutely brilliant, containing a variety of exercises to test students' learning and understanding. It saves me so much time, and my lessons are planned much more efficiently with this resource to rely on. Just brilliant!" | Business Management PowerPoint Pack for 5th Edition ISBN: 9781921917851 The ideal companion to the 5th edition IBID Press textbook, this PowerPoint Pack covers the entire syllabus (first exams 2024), saving teachers hundreds of hours of planning time. The PowerPoint Pack covers all topics in the syllabus, and includes links to ATL Activities, TOK, the IB Learner Profile, and additional examination practice questions, as well as engaging YouTube video clips embedded in the presentations. There are also accompanying Teachers' Notes for additional guidance. The PowerPoint Pack comprises of 47 PPT files, covering the contents of the entire syllabus as well as the Internal Assessment, integration of the key concepts (concept based learning), the Extended Essay, and the three external exam papers in Business Management. This resource is co-authored with Vivien Jack. Get a complimentary PPT sample file by contacting [email protected] Testimonials "This is an outstanding resource that has saved me countless hours of preparation. Each PowerPoint is immaculately produced and matches the learning outcomes in the syllabus. Brilliant! Thank you!" "Thank you, both. I recommend everyone this resource. It is a time saver for busy teachers like us and it is perfect to use in combination with the textbook of Paul Hoang. I bought this with my own money (not the school) because the amount of time to produce something like this is huge and I prefer to use this time with my family or my hobbies." "Received my resource pack today. Looks FANTASTIC! These resources have saved me so much time (and it’s only been a couple of weeks). This is my school’s first year offering IB Business Management, so I was building things like this from scratch (drowning) during an already crazy school year. Grateful!" "Vivien Jack & Paul Hoang - used this with my class for the first time yesterday and we loved it. Very interactive and a great way to revise previous topics too. Thank you for building such amazing resources." "The IBID PPTs that match the Hoang textbook have been a lifesaver for me. Best money I have spent in ages. Highly recommended." "This is a great resource and reckon all IB BM teachers must have in their toolkit. I do use it for my teaching and it has cut down so much of my planning time." "Just wanted to say that I am really impressed with the PowerPoint Pack. As this is my first year to teach IB, the resources have really saved my life. Thank you." "I was in my first year last year and started with grade 12. All I can say is that the PPT was an absolute life saver! Totally worth it." "Thank you - got it, they are brilliant and I am thrilled. Brilliant resource. Lifesaver. Thank you again." |
Business management for the IB Diploma: Prepare for Success ISBN: 9781398358423 This is the latest edition Revision Guide, published for the DP Business Management course (first exams 2024) available from the Hodder Education website. Enable your students to achieve success with the ultimate course companion, which provides fully worked explanations of all topics in the new syllabus, with exam practice questions and top tips to support and develop student learning. Answers are available free of charge. Testimonials from previous edition of the Revision Guide: "My students have found Paul Hoang's IB Business Management Study and Revision Guide very useful in their revision for the recent exams. The revision guide is laid out logically and is easily digestible with mini revision questions helping students apply theory to practice. Paul Hoang clearly understands the requirements of an IB course and has created this valuable resource to compliment the recent syllabus change by also including revision questions on the new concepts." Ian Mills, Teacher of IGCSE Global Perspectives, IB Business Management and IB CP Service Learning Coordinator, Leipzig International School "I would like to offer my gratitude to you for your great books which has helped me to a great extent in understanding various concepts of Business and Management. Your case studies really play a vital role in making the understanding of basically everything much easier. We have been using your books from Day 1 and honestly surviving IB BM would have been impossible without them." Yatharth Dhoot (IB DP Student) "This IB business management revision book is amazing and very thorough! Your hard work is appreciated Mr. Hoang!" Osman H. Fadul, Student of Khartoum International Community School, Sudan "I just wanted to thank you for your work with the IB business management content. I use your books and study guides extensively. My students appreciate your work as much as I do. They prefer your guide to others I have made available. We find them relevant and very insightful." Bradylee McGeough |
There are also Business Management textbooks available form Oxford University Press (OUP), Hodder Education, Cambridge University Press, and Pearson.
InThinking Business Management website
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InThinking Business Management – testimonials
"InThinking is helping me and my students tremendously. We are new to IB and having our first IB exams in November. The teaching resources, guidance and tips are just awesome 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽. Thank you Paul and other contributors."
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"I love that you are adding more activities in InThinking. I love these little activities (like the hexagon activities for the P&L and Balance Sheet sections) and they help my students so much! These have changed how I teach the units a lot."
- Alan Furnas, American International School Vietnam
"I’ve gone through sections of the InThinking Business Management platform - it’s something I have been waiting for to get published for some time now and I think it covers the content very well such as the question banks, lesson plan ideas, embedded videos, comprehension review questions, etc. However, I think the best part of this website are its resources for Paper 2 as well as for the Internal Assessments. I’ve struggled to find / make resources as clear and manageable for students to understand."
- Chris Taylor, Secondary Principal, International School of Schaffhausen, Switzerland
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- Jane Guy, St. Andrew’s International School, Bahamas
"The website is fabulous, congratulations. Our Business Management classes grow each year."
- Jil Robinson, International School of Geneva, Switzerland
"I use your site daily for all of my lessons. There are so many great ideas and activities that have been invaluable to me and my students."
- Joseph Stefania, Clarkstown North High School, USA
"I have been going through your InThinking site for Business Management it really is made wonderfully. It is definitely going to be very useful and I am going to ask my school to subscribe for the same."
- Nitin Dhareshwar, Aditya Birla World academy, Mumbai, India
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- Ekta Punjabi, Podar International School, Mumbai, India
"My students are enjoying accessing your site, as have I. The way you format the notes, including the advantages and disadvantages are beneficial for note taking and review purposes. As a teacher, I appreciate the varied sources you use for video case studies. As head of my school's ATL committee, I especially appreciate the inclusion of ATL classroom activities."
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"Great fan of your work, Paul. We have the InThinking subscription as well as your textbooks."
- Adam Rooney, HoD Individuals & Societies, GEMS Education, UAE
"I am very glad that my school decided to subscribe to your website. It is honestly very beneficial and supporting me throughout my classes. I am a new BM teacher, and your help is MUCH appreciated! So, thank you for such a detailed explanation of the IBDP Business Management course!"
- Danyah Barqouni, IBDP Business Management Teacher, Mashrek International School, Jordan
"Thank you again for InThinking - it is a great teaching site."
- Andrew Spagnardi, Head of Business Management, SIS Medan, Singapore Group of Schools (Indonesia)
"This year will be my first time teaching IB Business Management. I have been reviewing InThinking Business Management and I think it is great. Thank you very much."
- Alfred Rasmussen, Thuringia International School in Weimar, Germany
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"Just subscribed with my school here in Dubai, fantastic resource and very much up to date with the current business and economic climate. Keep up the great work, Paul!"
- Cathal O'Mahony, Service Learning Coordinator at Swiss International Scientific School in Dubai, UAE
"InThinking Business Management is an excellent and varied resource for teachers and students. Many thanks for your continued contributions."
- Dr. Rima Dinesh Puri, Senior IB Business Management Examiner & IA and EE Moderator
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"Paul Hoang, it really is an amazing website! Feeling a bit more confident now!"
- Dhanya Seshan, International School of Budapest
"Just my personal and professional opinion, but Paul’s website is definitely better than Kognity (which is not as in-depth as InThinking) and IB Business Management by Derek Burton (not as well organized or content-rich as InThinking). I’ll certainly be asking my school to switch to InThinking this year."
- Matt Temp, Nord Anglia Education, USA
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"I just have to say that BM on InThinking is a real life-saver, really Paul thank you so much! I gave my students access this year and they just love it too."
- Rana El Matarawi, Business Management Teacher at Notion International School, Egypt
"On behalf of all my Business Management students, I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for all your hard work in making the site what it is, a truly useful resource that adds value to our students."
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Journals and magazines
IB Review, Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471857249
Business Review, Hodder Education ISBN: 9781471856945
Watch the ITN cover IB Review magazine as a learning tool for IB students:
IB Business Management resource packs (Level7 Education)
Examples of some of the excellent resources from Level7 Education include:
50 Worksheets Pack for Unit 1 - Introduction to Business Management, by Dr. Rima Puri
50 Worksheets Pack for Unit 2 - Human Resource Management, by Edward Creigton
50 Worksheets Pack for Unit 3 - Finance and accounts, by Kenneth Tang
50 Worksheets Pack for Unit 4 - Marketing, by Dr. Rima Puri
50 Worksheets Pack for the Business Management Toolkit (BMT), by Alric Chong and Lois Johnston-Walker
Multiple Choice Questions Pack (covering the entire syllabus, the Business Management Toolkit, and the prescribed key concepts), by Jason Marchant
Business Management Toolkit (BMT) worksheets pack, by Alric Chong & Lois Johnston-Walker
Video documentaries / educational programmes
An absolute must if your school can afford the annual subscription - access to all of TV Choice's educational videos via online streaming. The videos cover almost every topic in the syllabus and although are targeted at GCSE and A Level students, they are very suitable for IB learners. Click here for the link.
Top tip!
If your department budget doesn't stretch far enough to subscribe to TV Choice, why not pool with other Humanities and academic subjects who can also access videos for Economics, English, Geography, History, ICT, English & Media, and even PSHE. After all, this resources comes with a site license for the subscribing school. Practise what you preach and benefit from economies of scale!
Extended Essay
Extended Essay: Skills for Success, Hodder Education
Over 11,700 copies sold worldwide!
Download a free chapter from the book here, and a free infographic poster here.
"This is, hands-down, the best resource available to help EE students. Presented in a very student-friendly format, with great tips and advice throughout, and suitable for all DP students. A must-have for all libraries in IB World Schools".
- Pooja Bhatia, Mumbai
“A must for all IB DP Students! I received a sample of this resource in March 2019 and don’t know how I’d manage the EE anymore without it! It’s a must for all students to have as they prepare for and write their essays. It breaks the assessment components down to manageable chunks for all students at every level.”
- H. Guy, Bahamas
InThinking Business Management resources
- InThinking Question Bank (with over 1,975 questions and answers)
- Key terms glossary (more than 700 key terms from the website, covering the entire IB Business Management syllabus)
- Command Terms
- The Internal Assessment
- The prescribed key concepts
- The Business Management Toolkit (BMT)
- Exams (Paper 1, Paper 2, and Paper 3)
- Quantitative techniques in Business Management
- CAS & Business Management
- The Extended Essay
- Theory of Knowledge (TOK) and Business Management
- Professional reading & resources for IB educators
- Distance Learning resources
- Online Video documentaries (with teachers' notes and/or worksheets)
- Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
1. Business Case Studies online (http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/)
Business Case Studies is a great online resource for adding contexts to the IB Business Management syllabus. The website provides (mainly) free resources, including some lesson plans and SWOT analyses.
2. PanMore (http://panmore.com/)
Panmore is an excellent source of business case studies and a fantastic and free resource which provides excellent case studies to supplement the content in the course. Many of the case studies include SWOT and/or PEST (STEEPLE) analyses, which could also be very useful for the Internal Assessment.
3. STEEPLE Analysis (https://pestleanalysis.com/)
This is a brilliant resource for Unit 1.5 and for students looking for real-world examples of STEEPLE (PESTLE or PEST) analysis for their Internal Assessment. A free resource, PESTLEanalysis.com provides read-made secondary market research for the IA.
4. Harvard Business Review (https://hbr.org)
Harvard Business Review is a useful resource for some great articles covering many tools, theories and techniques in the IB Business Management syllabus, including (indirectly) coverage of the CESC key concepts. For example, this video introduces how cultures across the world approach leadership and management. The Harvard Business Review can be a very useful resources for students writing their Extended Essay in Business Management.
5. Twitter (X)
Stay up to date with developments on social media platforms such as Twitter. Follow these hashtags #IBBusinessManagement #IBBusMan #IBBM #IBBusiness #InThinking and/or the author on Twitter @paulhoang88 for regular updates.
6. Facebook teacher support group
Join the 2,100+ members on the InThinking IB Business Management support group for teachers on Facebook. You do not need to be an InThinking subscriber to join this growing support group, to share questions, ideas and resources. Click this link to join the group and to see the recent posts from the global community of IB Business Management teachers.
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