Investopedia Business Basics
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A reference hub of short, edited articles defining core business concepts: company types, corporate structure, management, marketing, operations, and common metrics. Useful for looking up unfamiliar terminology encountered elsewhere rather than working through a structured curriculum.
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hbr.org
Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives.
SBA Learning Platform
The U.S. Small Business Administration's official guide to starting and running a company: choosing a legal structure, registering a business, writing a plan, funding options, licensing, taxes, hiring, and closing or selling.
The Indicator from Planet Money
Daily NPR podcast from the Planet Money team, with episodes of about ten minutes each explaining a single economic number or news story, such as inflation data, jobs reports, interest rates and trade. Builds a habit of interpreting economic headlines.
Business Essentials
An introductory survey textbook of the business world: economic systems, ethics, entrepreneurship, forms of ownership, management, marketing, operations, accounting, and finance. Gives newcomers a shared vocabulary and a map of how business functions fit together.
Introduction to Business
Jeff Madura's undergraduate survey text organized around business planning, covering management, marketing, finance, and information systems, with running examples of how each decision affects firm value. Suited to a first course in business rather than reference use.
The Business Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
A visual reference summarizing roughly one hundred influential management and economics ideas, from Taylorism to disruptive innovation, with diagrams, quotes, and short biographies. Gives a fast orientation to thinkers whose vocabulary recurs across business writing.