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Business ownership: Jellycat plans £58mn payday for owners
Pricing strategies: Fans look back in anger on dynamic pricing
External influences: UK cycling industry struggles despite road and track success
Managing change: Nike shares tumble 20% as sales warning rattles retailers
Corporate strategy: Boots chief to depart after sale process stalls
Management: Linda Yaccarino shakes up X amid pressure from Elon Musk over costs
Business strategy: Woman sues Netflix for $170mn over ‘Baby Reindeer’ link
Shareholders vs stakeholders: Tesco boss says he is ‘well paid’ as investors back £10mn package
Business strategy video. Building blocks: Lego’s next move
Organisational design: Margherita Della Valle, the woman trying to turn Vodafone around
Video: International trade. The Brexit effect: how leaving the EU hit the UK
External influences: Hitachi UK rail plant suffers multimillion-pound writedown
Operations: Nissan to lead £2bn electric-car investment in Sunderland plant
Corporate culture: Elon Musk tells Rishi Sunak AI will render all jobs obsolete
Assessing financial performance: Fashion retailer Asos predicts sales dip in 2024 as losses balloon
Change and entrepreneurship: The dangers of succeeding a star CEO
Demand: The return of the rice crisis
Video: case study: Inside F1 Academy
Introduction to business: When will the UK reach peak Aldi and Lidl?
Video: the environment - Inside London’s ‘zero waste’ restaurant
Case study: UK car industry - Jaguar Land Rover pledges £15bn investment in electric vehicles
International business: BrewDog to expand in China after Budweiser tie-up
The market: Electric vehicles defy price war after Ford and Tesla discounts
The market: YouTube Shorts takes on TikTok in battle for younger users
Business growth: Hotel Chocolat to open 50 new stores as it enjoys best Christmas shop sales
Location assessment: Apple hires workers in India as it looks to open first flagship stores
Global marketing: Mars convinces emerging market consumers to eat more chocolate
International business: How cricket-crazy Pakistan became a major football factory
Video: Research and development — Sniff technology: detecting everything from drugs to diseases
Video: Strategy — The strategic moves that transformed AC Milan’s fortunes
Video: Marketing and new technology — Breaking into the livestream shopping market
Shareholders vs stakeholders: Patagonia founder hands company to trust to tackle climate crisis
Video: Meeting customer needs — Can e-bikes transform our cities?
Quantitative skills: Real Madrid strikes €360mn events deal for revamped stadium
People: P&O Ferries sacks 800 sailors and halts crossings for days
Business growth: Brompton to fold up London base as capital’s rental costs surge
Business growth: Amazon and Nike evaluate separate bids to buy Peloton
Marketing: The great Japanese toaster problem
Marketing: Nappy manufacturers shift focus in China from infants to elderly
Operations: Glass bottle shortage leaves US distillers high and dry
Workforce planning: Halfords urges UK government to train mechanics for shift to electric
Retrenchment / rationalisation: Mobiles were a ‘ball and chain’ for Dixons Carphone
Strategy and marketing: Ikea warns stock shortages likely to last another year
Strategy and implementation: Cinemas bank on Bond to put regular movie outings back in the diary
External influences: England eases Covid travel curbs and simplifies traffic light system
International business: M&S reviews future of French stores amid Brexit delivery delays
Human Resources: Marriott warns of ‘fight for talent’ as hotels struggle to find staff
Revision: Pret A Manger vs Greggs: who will win the battle for lunch?
Business growth: Made.com set for £1bn London float
Business growth: AT&T nears deal to create $150bn streaming giant with Discovery
Demand and supply: UK pubs caught on the hop after drinkers roll through the barrels
Operations: VW warns of big production hit as chip shortage worsens
Global marketing: How the KitKat went global
Corporate strategy: John Lewis warns of further store closures
Finance and leadership: FC Barcelona’s presidential hopefuls vow to restore finances — and keep Messi
Demand and supply: Cruise operators see brighter horizon as vaccines spur bookings
Approaches to staffing: Uber loses landmark UK battle as Supreme Court rules drivers are workers
International trade: Brexit woes: small UK distillers struggle to ship gin and whisky to EU
Sources of finance: Football transfers hit by ‘double whammy’ of Covid and Brexit
Political/economics influences: Online sprees help Britain’s shops defy the doomsayers
Business growth: LVMH names new team to run Tiffany
Stakeholders: HSBC targeted by shareholders over fossil fuel financing
Human resources: Just Eat offers hourly wages in UK gig economy shake-up
Legal structures: Aston Martin board meets over emergency fundraising
Demand and supply: PlayStation 5 launch in UK descends into chaos
Stakeholders: Supermarkets face calls to waive right to business rates relief
Dynamic markets: Bookshops fight back as pandemic sends consumers online
Demand and mass marketing: The post-Covid consumer: is back-to-basics shopping here to stay?
Strategy and competitiveness: John Lewis triples cost-cutting target
Strategy / external environment: Cineworld set to shut all UK and US screens
Technological change: Is it game over for the console?
Synoptic: Can London’s high-end restaurants survive the pandemic?
Distribution channels: Microsoft closes shop windows
Marketing and branding: New calls for American football team Redskins to rename
Competitiveness: Bentley to cut quarter of workforce as UK car sector job losses hit 5,000
Change/sources of finance: Pret brings in consultants to advise on business overhaul
Strategy and Product design: Russian brothers behind ‘Gardenscapes’ emerge as lockdown winners
HR strategies: Amazon faces scrutiny as operations return to normal
Operations/markets: Recipe box sales surge under lockdown
Organisational design: The retail boss devising a strategy to survive lockdown
Markets: Lockdowns lower personal grooming standards, says Unilever
Marketing: Apple prices new iPhone version at $399 for pandemic era
Cash flow: EasyJet boosts cash after fresh pressure from Sir Stelios
Markets, operations: How coronavirus is affecting pasta’s complex supply chain
Enterprise: Alternative meat industry moves beyond the burger
Risk/uncertainty, Positioning: UK’s first 5G service
Market segmentation, ecommerce: Gucci turns to call centres
Market segmentation, assessing innovation: Dublin’s first alcohol-free bar
What is a business: Bonmarché to be acquired
Managing change: Companies cannot ignore older workers
Marketing: Luxury watchmakers unnerved
Operational decisions: Fast Retailing
Analysing the external environment: Serving Africa’s online consumers
Understanding markets and customers: UK consumers hold off spending
Understanding markets and customers: Diesel’s demise
Competitive environment: Honda’s investors back UK closure
Political and legal: Competition watchdog seeks new powers
Marketing: Amazon restructures in India
Political and legal: Hotel booking site clamp down
Social and technological change: Rise of the stay-at-homes
Different business forms: Levi Strauss launches IPO
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