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and features looking at the economics and business arguments behind 
various news stories。 Its archive stands at around 3;000 articles and 200 
PowerPoint presentations covering strategy; accounting and finance; 
marketing; operations management; HRM; economics and a virtual 
case study of The Cameron Balloons Virtual Factory; showing every 
aspect of its operations from factory floor layout to cost breakdowns 
and pany history。 
。 Business Balls (businessballs): Launched in 1999 as ‘a free 
ethical learning and development resource for people and organizations’; 
this quirky site is run by Alan Chapman; in Leicester; England。 
Packed full with innovative ideas; materials; exercises; tools and 
templates; it is a first port of call for anything in the management 
development and training fields。 
。 Business Link (businesslink。gov。uk): This is the UK government’s 
online support service for small and new businesses。 The information 
and tools on the site are a valuable knowledge resource for any size 
of business。 Every aspect of business is covered; including in…depth information 
on IT and e…merce; finance; grants; taxes; and buying or 
selling a business。 Alongside each topic is a list of additional free tools 
and resources and information on any courses being run on or around 
that subject area anywhere nearby。 
。 CasePlace (caseplace); an initiative of The Aspen Institute; 
a business education think tank; is designed for business school 
faculty to help with new curriculum development。 Thousands of business 
cases and related teaching materials from a wide variety of publishers 
are listed and the site is free and open to students; executive 
educators; and anyone interested in learning more about social and 
environmental issues in business。 
。 Connections (h。。p://cnx): This initiative; initially spurred by faculty 
at RICE University Texas in 1999 and supported with grants; from 
among others; The William and Flora Hewle。。 Foundation; provides an 
environment for collaboratively developing; freely sharing and rapidly 
publishing scholarly content on the web。 Organized in small modules 
that are easily connected into larger collections or courses; all content is 
free to use and reuse under the Creative mons ‘a。。ribution’ licence。 
There are over 70 business…related courses listed。
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。 Easy Calculation (easycalculation): Free calculators and 
converters are available here for every type of mathematical and 
statistical activity; from the basic – mean; median; mode; standard 
deviation – through to the more plex – binomial distribution; 
negative binomial distribution; Poisson distribution; hypergeometric 
distribution。 Every MBA should at least know what these terms mean。 
。 Economy Professor (economyprofessor): This is a free dictionary 
of economic terms; concepts; theories and theorists。 Its purpose 
is to provide its users – in the format of an open…content website – with 
information on all economic theories and theorists。 With hundreds of 
subjects listed; from ‘ability to pay principle’ to ‘x…efficiency’; passing 
through ‘moral hazard’ and ‘Slutsky’s theorem’ on the way; the listing 
appears prehensive。 
。 Find Articles (h。。p://findarticles) is a service provided by BNET 
(bnet); a publisher of business; puter and technology 
news and information。 This search engine is geared up for hunting 
through hundreds of magazines (The Wall Street Journal; Financial 
Times; Harvard Business Review to name but a few)。 Alongside articles 
are flagged up tools; tips and other useful resources such as its ‘Crash 
Course’ related to the subject you are researching。 Looking for an 
article on mergers; for example; produces ‘How to Plan a Merger’; a 
very detailed article; as well as ‘Lessons from the Mega…Mergers’; 
‘Five Signs That Your Merger Is Doomed’ and ‘M&A Quick Analysis 
Worksheet and Video: Choosing a Merger Candidate’。 MagPortal。 
 (magportal) is another search engine and directory 
for finding online business magazine articles and Wilson on the Web 
(wilsonweb/research) claims to have the largest collection of 
annotated links to select web marketing and e…merce articles and 
resources ‘on the planet’。 
。 Free Management Library (managementhelp): This appears 
to be a labour of love provided by Authenticity Consulting; LLC of 
Minneapolis; Minnesota; which has refrained from adding pop…ups; 
advertisements; flashing banners etc in the Library; keeping it clu。。er 
free so that users can quickly identify and find the most useful content 
in the Library。 The Library’s purpose is ‘to enlighten users; not only 
from their reading the various articles in the Library; but also from 
their understanding of the arrangement of the information in the 
Library’。 Topics cover subjects such as Boards of Directors; Employee 
Performance Management; Finances; Leadership; Marketing; Organizations; 
Organizational Change and Development; Staffing; Strategic 
Planning and also Training and Development。 There is a vast range of 
free resources available in the ‘General Info’ section on the right…hand 
sidebar。 Also; see the ‘Related Library Topics’ and ‘Remended 
Books’ referenced from the bo。。om of each topic’s page。
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。 Mind Tools (mindtools): The purpose of this website is to 
persuade you to sign up to The Mind Tools Career Excellence Club; but 
you can get plenty of value without doing so。 Free on Mind Tools; you 
can take its modules on leadership; personal effectiveness; goal se。。ing; 
stress management; creativity; problem solving; time management and 
munication skills; covering writing; presentations; speaking and 
negotiating。 There are worksheets for such topics as SWOT and PEST 
analysis; an anger management ‘Hostility Log’; examples of Gan。。 charts 
and a speed reading tool to help you to read and understand wri。。en 
information much more quickly; this is an essential skill for MBAs who 
have to master large volumes of information quickly; as is usually on 
offer in business schools as a pre…a。。endance learning option。 
。 Money Terms (h。。p://moneyterms。uk) is another website describing 
a mass of financial terms; from abnormal return to zero coupon bond。 
It also has a useful translator turning UK accounting and finance terms 
from English into US English and vice versa。 So accountant bees 
CPA; gearing translates as leverage and current account as checking 
account。 As much of the teaching in business schools is still based on 
US material; this is a helpful facility。 
。 NetMBA (wwwmba): Contains prehensive information 
on key concepts in accounting; economics; finance; management; 
marketing; operations and statistics。 You can read online free; but paper 
or electronic copies have to be bought at 1。75 for individuals and 3 
for panies。 
。 Nobel Prize (h。。p://nobelprize/nobel_prizes/economics/video_ 
interviews。html): In 1968; Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank) 
established this Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel; founder of the Nobel 
Prize。 The first Prize in Economics was awarded to Ragnar Frisch and 
Jan Tinbergen in 1969。 You can watch videos of interviews with most 
of the laureates since 1987 on this website。 This will definitely put a 
feather in an MBA’s cap! 
。 ProvenModels (provenmodels): This site provides descriptions 
of management models designed for use by a munity of MBA 
graduates; executives; academic scholars and management consultants。 
It is used by business schools and corporate universities; including 
IMD; INSEAD and RSM Erasmus University; whose Vice…Dean is on 
the board that vets content。 
。 Rapid Business Improvement (rapidbi): This business provides 
consultancy tools for consultants。 The site has free details of over 
100 business models and tools; with information on what they do and 
how to use them。 
。 Reference For Business (referenceforbusiness): This is a 
prehensive and easily accessible reference source for students 
of business that want practical information that can be applied to 
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their own organizations。 There are hundreds of articles that detail 
information about financial planning; market analysis; sales; business 
plans; tax planning and human resource issues。 Also provided are 
in…depth business biographies with information on over 600 industry 
leaders worldwide; from Bernard Arnault; chairman; chief executive 
officer; Moét Hennessy Louis Vui。。on to Klaus Zumwinkel; chairman 
and chief executive officer; Deutsche Post。 Details included cover 
individuals’ biographical information; career paths; achievements; 
leadership strategies and management styles。 There is an Encyclopaedia 
of American Industries providing a prehensive guide to 460 
manufacturing industries and over 500 non…manufacturing and service 
industries as well as the outline histories of several hundred major 
national and international panies。 
。 SCORE (score/explore_score。html): This is a non…profit association 
dedicated to educating US entrepreneurs and is a resource 
partner with the US Small Business Administration (SBA)。 The site; 
though useful; is less than easy to navigate。 This link takes you to 
a page with details on the most useful areas for an MBA – ‘How to’ 
articles; business templates (spreadsheets for preparing accounting 
reports; ratio analysis and break…even charts) and online workshops 
and learning。 
。 Stat Trek (h。。p://sta。。rek): Here you will find everything you need 
to know about statistics; probability; and survey sampling。 The goal of 
this website is to help you solve mon statistical problems – quickly; 
easily; and accurately – without having to ask anyone for help and 
in nearly all cases without any cost。 There are free statistics tutorials 
covering the central ideas of basic statistics: probability; distributions; 
sampling theory; estimation; hypothesis testing; and survey sampling – 
all explained in plain English。 Analytical tools eliminate putational 
drudgery。 Everything is online and easy to use。 Frequently asked questions 
and sample exercises steer you clear of potential problems。 An 
online statistics glossary takes the myste

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