Mr Marcus McGowan MSc PgDip BA (Hons)

This Business Education Learning Blog is aimed primarily at Higher Business Management students/teachers and ICT students/teachers.

The aim of this blog is to provide you with interesting articles, news, trivia as well as resources or links to materials which will help in your course of study.

I am a Teacher of Business Education and I have written for Education Scotland and BBC Bitesize.

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Friday 21 February 2014

Bitcoin

Interest Rates may rise in 2015

Have a look at this:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26282194 - a PESTEC External Factor in practise!

 

Now think about the effect on businesses and consumers.

 

Tuesday 18 February 2014

The World's Most Successful Toy

Great article on the success story of Hasbro’s G.I. Joe or Action Man as they were known in the UK.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26196760

 

For students see if you can find all the PESTEC factors that affected Hasbro and their decision making. There are quite a few.

 

Also I learned something else… Hasbro is from the smallest state in the USA: Rhode Island.

 

Inflation Calculator

Useful website calculator for business, economics and history classes:

 

http://www.moneysorter.co.uk/calculator_inflation2.html#calculator

 

 

 

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