Business Studies & BTEC Business
Books
How I Made It: 40 Successful Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Made Millions, Rachel Bridge
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
The Google Story, David A. Vise
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer, Jeffrey Liker
Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours, Tarun Khanna
Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson
Sun Tzu - The Art of War for Managers: 50 Strategic Rules Updated for Today’s Business, Gerald A. Michaelson
The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
No Logo, Naomi Klein
House of Cards: How Wall Street’s Gamblers Broke Capitalism, William D Cohan
Anyone can do it – Duncan Bannatyne
The Rise And Fall Of Marks & Spencer - and How It Rose Again – Judi Bevan
What You See Is What You Get: My Autobiography - Alan Sugar
Management in ten words - Terry Leah
Rebel Ideas – Mathew Syed
The Barcelona Way – Unlocking the DNA of a Winning Culture – Damien Hughes
Screw it, let's do it – Richard Branson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9FkeyvdA2M
The Virgin Way – Richard Branson Audio Book (free) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wz40rdz7i4
The New One Minute Manager – Blanchard & Johnson Audio Book (free) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar4lrwXM4ao
Wake Up and Change Your Life by Duncan Bannatyne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqLVkMeJwE4&list=PLosYlgqowJvECmirOpdlI_Ynw5Lb4MTf&index=10&t=0s
Podcasts
University of Warwick: https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/podcasts/media/
The Bottom Line: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sz6t
Lectures
Visits
Museum of Brands
London Legoland
Cadbury’s World
Harry Potter Experience
Bank of England
Parliament Tours
Web sites
London Stock Market - http://www.londonstockexchange.com
Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com
Grocery industry research - https://www.igd.com/Research/
Bank of England - https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/
Bank of company reports - http://www.northcote.co.uk/
Office for National Statistics - https://www.ons.gov.uk/
Statistics on EU - http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
Government publications - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications
Documentary - https://www.channel4.com/programmes/tricky-business
Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB3lJuMNUEk - Inside Cadbury
Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qwucutFTsQ - Inside the Supermarket
Documentary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwrUYS9UTeU - The Truth Behind the Click - Amazon
Other Documentaries
Pepsi vs Coke – Amazon prime video
Jobs Vs Gates: The Hippie and The Nerd – Amazon prime video
Starbuck unfiltered – Amazon prime video
Facebook – Cracking the code – Amazon prime video
Data centre the true cost of the internet – Amazon prime video
Learn from The Experts - Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder – Amazon prime video
Learn from The Experts - Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX – Amazon prime video
The millennial dream – Amazon prime video
Business mindset for success – Amazon prime video
Steve jobs – Billion Dollar Hippie – Netflix
American Factory – Netflix
Inside Waitrose – Channel 5 on My5
Inside the factory – BBC2
Dragons Den – BBC2
Films
The Founder – Dvd – Amazon prime video or Netflix – Franchising
Deep Water Horizon – DVD - Amazon prime video – Ethical issues
Trump – What’s the deal – Amazon prime video
The Internship – Amazon Prime video
The Social Network – Netflix
The Big Short – Netflix
The Great Hack – Netflix
Enron: the smartest guys in the room – Amazon Prime
Research
Global Shocks: How to Manage Change in the Global Business Environment
Digital Skills: Digital Marketing
Competitions