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Business cycle
The business cycle, also called the trade cycle, is the recurring alternation of expansion and contraction in economic activity such as output, employment, and income.
Business day
A business day, also known as a working day, is a day on which banks, financial markets, or other institutions are open for general business, unlike a calendar day.
Business development
Business development, also known as biz dev, is the organizational function that creates new revenue opportunities through markets, partnerships, and relationships, handing qualified opportunities to sales.
Business economics
Business economics is a field of applied economics, defined by Joel Dean as economic analysis applied to business policy, studying the financial, organizational, market-related, and environmental issues corporations face.
Business ethics
Business ethics, also known as corporate ethics, studies the moral aspects of trading goods and services and the conduct of the organizations supplying them, emerging as an academic field in the 1970s.
Business incubator
A business incubator, also called a startup incubator, is an organization that provides early-stage companies with workspace, mentoring, networks, and back-office services, a model dating to 1959.
Business Insider
Business Insider is a New York-based business, technology, and economy news site founded in 2007 as Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget, Kevin Ryan, and Dwight Merriman, acquired by Axel Springer in 2015 at a $442 million valuation and rebranded Insider in 2021 before returning to the Business Insider name in 2023.
Business letter
A business letter, also called a formal letter or commercial correspondence, is formal written communication between an organization and external parties, typically printed on letterhead and used where formality matters.
Business magnate
A business magnate, also called a business tycoon, mogul, or baron, is an especially wealthy businessperson whose fortune comes from entrepreneurial activity, a subgroup of the broader economic elite.
Business model
A business model describes how a company creates, delivers, and captures value while generating profit; scholars still lack a consensus definition, and the dominant framework is Osterwalder's nine-block Business Model Canvas.
Business model canvas
The business model canvas is a one-page template with nine blocks describing how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value, created by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur.
Business networking
Business networking, also called professional networking, is goal-directed behavior aimed at building and using informal relationships that facilitate work-related activities such as finding clients, jobs, referrals, and information.
Business plan
A business plan is a written document describing what a company does, its goals, strategy, and financial projections, prepared for lenders, investors, or its own management.
Business Plot
The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch or White House Putsch, was an alleged 1933 conspiracy by wealthy businessmen to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It became public through retired Marine General Smedley Butler's 1934 testimony to the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, which verified his core claims but led to no prosecutions.
Business process
A business process, also called a business method, is a set of interrelated activities that uses inputs to deliver an intended result, such as a product, service, or decision.
Business process management
Business process management (BPM) is a management discipline that discovers, designs, monitors, optimizes, and automates an organization's business processes, distinct from methodologies like Six Sigma and Lean.
Business process modeling
Business process modeling, also called business process design, is the practice of diagramming an organization's activities, decisions, and responsibilities, most commonly in the BPMN notation, so processes can be analyzed or executed by software.
Business process outsourcing
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the contracting of functions like customer service, payroll, or claims processing to an external provider, with the client remaining accountable for outcomes.
Business process reengineering
Business process reengineering (BPR) is a management method that radically redesigns core business processes for dramatic gains in cost, quality, service, and speed, introduced by Michael Hammer in 1990.
Business school
A business school, also known as a B-school, is a higher-education institution or university school teaching management disciplines such as finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, and strategy.
Business Standard
Business Standard: Indian English and Hindi business daily founded 1975 in Kolkata by ABP Group, Kotak-controlled since 1997; distinct from the unrelated US site businessstandard.org.
Business studies
Business studies is the academic field covering how businesses are created, financed, marketed, operated, and managed, spanning accounting, finance, marketing, and strategy, and the largest US bachelor's degree field.
Business valuation
Business valuation, also called corporate or enterprise valuation, is the process of estimating a business's economic value through income, market, and asset approaches, for tax, litigation, transaction, and reporting purposes.
Business-level strategy
Business-level strategy is the plan for how one business unit competes against direct rivals, distinct from corporate-level and functional-level strategy, with Porter's cost leadership, differentiation, and focus as its classic generic forms.
Business-to-business
Business-to-business (B2B) is commerce in which one company sells goods or services to another company, differing from consumer selling in longer buying cycles and negotiated pricing.
Businessperson
A businessperson, also called a business man, is a person who works in business, especially in an important position in a company or as a company owner.
Busoga
Busoga is a region and historical confederation of chiefdoms in eastern Uganda between Lake Victoria and Lake Kyoga, unified under British rule and led today by an elected Kyabazinga.
Busr ibn Abi Artat
Busr ibn Abi Artat (بسر بن أبي أرطاة) was an Arab commander for the Umayyad caliph Mu'awiya, known for a brutal 660–661 expedition through the Hijaz and Yemen.
Bussa
Bussa, also recorded as Busso or Bussoe, was an African-born enslaved man who led Barbados's 1816 slave rebellion and was named a National Hero in 1998.
Bussa's Rebellion
Bussa's Rebellion was a slave rebellion in Barbados begun on 14 April 1816, led by the enslaved African Bussa and crushed by British forces within three days.