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Business management best practices including corporate strategy development, financial management, human resource management, information management, resource planning, marketing and sales.

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cafeteria benefits

Business administration; Business management

A form of reward where employees are given some choice from a range of fringe benefits.

fringe benefit

Business administration; Business management

A reward beyond the basic pay for the job. Examples can range from subsidized meals and travel to pensions, holidays and sickness benefits.

diminishing returns

Business administration; Business management

(1) In economics, this is the point beyond which any additional input of resources will result in a less than proportionate increase in output. (2) This idea has been borrowed by ...

risk capital

Business administration; Business management

capital invested in an enterprise with a high risk of failure, though usually with the possibility of a large financial gain.

supply-side economics

Business administration; Business management

A form of economic policy that emphasizes the importance of supply rather than demand in the workings of the economy. It encourages measures like the removal of restrictive ...

indirect taxation

Business administration; Business management

A form of taxation which is not paid directly to the government, as in direct taxation, but added to the cost of goods and services; for example, Value Added Tax or the tax on ...

brand personality

Business administration; Business management

A way of characterizing the image of a brand by giving it personal associations as though it were an individual. Using descriptions like ‘masculine’, ‘feminine’, ‘traditional’, ...