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Welcome to InThinking for the IB Business Management website!
Our webpages are designed to help you and your students to achieve success in the Business Management course as part of the IB Diploma Programme (IB DP) and IB Career-related Programme (IB CP) by:
- Addressing all learning outcomes of the syllabus, including comprehensive notes for all sections of the course (first examinations in May 2024). Content for all parts of the syllabus can be accessed in the eBook via the Student access page.
- Providing guidance on all aspects of IB curriculum framework (including the internal assessment, external assessments, the Extended Essay, CAS, TOK, concept based learning, and ATL skills).
- Providing students with a range of resources to assist their revision, such as key terms glossaries and flashcards, covering all sections of the IB Business Management course, including the Business Management Toolkit (BMT).
- Giving you ideas for delivering engaging lessons and learning experiences for students, including ATL activities, interactive quizzes, worksheets, crosswords, embedded videos, exam practice questions, and mock examination papers (with full mark schemes).
At the start of this academic year (May centres), the number of IB-accredited schools worldwide was 6039 - an increase of 175 from the previous year.
The highest number of IB schools is in the Americas (IBAM), with a total of 2957 schools. There are 1728 IB schools in Africa, Europe and the Middle East (IBAEM) combined, and 1354 schools in Asia-Pacific (IBAP).
The countries with the highest number of IB schools are:
- United States: 1906 IB schools
- Canada: 375 IB schools
- China: 300 IB schools
The top five countries with the highest number of new IB programme accreditation in 2024 were:
- United States: 97 schools
- Spain: 46 schools
- India: 36 schools
- China: 35 schools
- Colombia: 23 schools
Source: TES
The Business Management course is offered in three primary languages. As of 5th March 2026, the number of schools delivering the course is as follows:
- English: 1965 schools
- Spanish: 462 schools
- French: 93 schools
These figures highlight the strong global reach of the course. The IB Diploma is a rigorous and academically challenging programme, with just over 80% of candidates successfully passing it.
Source: IB Statistical Bulletin, 2025
Watch this brief introductory video to see what the website has to offer you and your students:
InThinking Business Management is also fully compatible with Google’s built-in translation feature, making the site more accessible to teachers and students whose first language is not English. For example, we have more than 65 registered schools in Spain, as well as many more across other Spanish-speaking countries, so some teachers and students choose to view the site in Spanish:
Alternative language translations are also available in your web browser. This is an example from Firefox:
As of August 2026, there are 2945 registered teachers and 33 407 students from across 120 different countries using the InThinking Business Management website (representing about 68% of all IB World Schools that offer IB Business Management).
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Content on the website exceeds 1 850 000 words - to put this into context, that's more than 460 Extended Essays(!) whilst the 768-page IBID Press textbook is around 360 000 words. So, there are plenty of resources to engage and support teachers and students alike.
For teachers using Google Classroom, you can share a site page with your students simply by copying and pasting the relevant URL. If the students are logged in already, it will take them to that site page. If they are not logged, it will ask them to log in and then re-direct them automatically to that page.
For ATL activities, teachers should apply their professional judgement. An activity that might work well in a particular school setting in one part of the world with a certain group of students might not work equally well for others. It is strongly advised that teachers review the activity and pre-watch any embedded videos to assess the suitability for their own students.
Answers are not always provided for ATL activities as context is important. In all cases, teachers should review the activities first and apply their professional judgement before using, or tweaking these to use, with their students.
At InThinking, we value authenticity and the voice of experienced practitioners. While AI can be a useful supporting tool, the core contents of our subject sites - written materials, weekly updates, and replies to subscriber comments - are all written by our site authors and not by AI.
Student Access
Please note that your IB Business Management students can have completely free access to the website once you have activated Student Access. You can also register other teachers in your school to gain access to the website, which is updated every week, 52 weeks a year.
The annual subscription therefore represents extremely good value for money and will save you hundreds of hours of planning:
| Currency | Annual | Per week | Per day |
| USD 🇺🇸 | 285 | 5.48 | 0.78 |
| EUR 🇪🇺 | 250 | 4.81 | 0.68 |
| GBP 🇬🇧 | 225 | 4.33 | 0.62 |
To add some context, a three-day IB Business Management workshop with IBICUS costs around £940 and the cost for a similar three-day (15 hours) IB workshop organized by IBSCA is around £1085.
To find out how to manage Student Access, please go to InThinking's help page here.
The InThinking Business Management website is organized in syllabus order:
- Unit 1 - Introduction to Business Management
- Unit 2 - Human resource management
- Unit 3 - Finance and accounts
- Unit 4 - Marketing
- Unit 5 - Operations management
- Business Management Toolkit (BMT)
There is also coverage of all other aspects of the IB Business Management course:
- The Internal Assessment for both HL and SL students. This section of the website includes advice on formulating focused research questions, research methodologies, and interpretation of the common assessment criteria. Sample research questions are included along with many top tips to support you and your students in understanding how to successfully complete the internal assessment.
- The External examinations section of the website provides an array of resources for all three papers: Paper 1 (based on a pre-released statement), Paper 2 (structured questions with a quantitative focus), and the Paper 3 (HL only). These include advice on command terms, key terms (glossary), and revision. This section also includes exam practice questions and full mark schemes to support teachers and students. An "exam tracker" is also included to help teachers to plan their assessments and mock exams for students.
- The DP Core aspects of the IB Diploma Programme (CAS, EE, and TOK) are covered in this section of the website. It provides advice and case studies about embedding CAS in the delivery of the IB Business Management course, and integrating TOK in the Business Management curriculum. There is an array of resources to support teacher who are supervising students undertaking a Business Management Extended Essay.
- Updates & Notices are provided to help teachers and students to see the latest additions to the website.
- Resources for IB Business Management such as textbooks, workbooks, resource packs, YouTube channels, and so forth are included. Make sure you check this section of the website on a regular basis for updates and additions.
To get an overview of the syllabus, watch this short introductory video.
Click on the hyperlinks below to access other InThinking resources to help you get started with the IB Business Management course:
One of the many benefits of your subscription to InThinking Business Management is your ability to ask questions directly to the site author. Please feel free to post any questions you may have related to the relevant part of the website. InThinking also welcomes any suggestions that you may have.
Supporting and advising teachers is a hugely rewarding aspect of my role with InThinking. So, please feel welcome to ask any questions that you may have. To do show, scroll to the bottom of any page on the website and enter your comments and click on the "Submit comment". You will typically get a response directly from the site author within 24 hours.
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Please contact the IT team ([email protected]) for any technical issues related to the InThinking IB DP Business Management website.
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