What you'll learn
- Product Innovation vs. Market Demand
- Expansion vs. Core Competency
- Cost Leadership vs. Premium Quality
- Sustainability vs. Immediate Profitability
- Automation vs. Workforce
- International Expansion vs. Domestic Focus
- Digital Transformation vs. Traditional Business Model
Requirements
- You should either be intending to or are already, studying business.
Description
This is a course dealing with Business Conundrums. The format is simple: 20 Case Studies. One per week is discussed. Each Case Study comes with:
a. a printed version which you should print before we discuss
b. some key areas identified for discussion
c. a highly interactive Instructor!
This last category (c) is significant. Each week we only focus on ONE Case Study. Any points/suggestions/comments about other Case Studies will be dismissed. We all need to focus, explore, develop and discuss.
Section A Case Studies
1. Product Innovation vs. Market Demand
2. Expansion vs. Core Competency
3. Cost Leadership vs. Premium Quality
4. Sustainability vs. Immediate Profitability
5. Automation vs. Workforce
6. International Expansion vs. Domestic Focus
7. Digital Transformation vs. Traditional Business Model
Section B Case Studies
This section, rather than give you the 3 key areas, poses a series of discussion questions.
1. Balancing Profitability and Accessibility in an Online Education Platform
2. Ethical Data Acquisition in AI Personalization Start-Up
3. Balancing Commercial Success and National Security in a Defence Technology Firm
4. Implementing AI in Healthcare While Ensuring Equity and Privacy
5. Integrating Cutting-Edge Technology in a Private Education Chain
6. Sustainable Innovation in AgriTech for a Farming Cooperative
7. Enhancing Guest Experience through Technology in the Hospitality Sector
8. Balancing Development and Sustainability in Boosting Local Tourism
9. Maximizing Impact through Fundraising for Stroke Survivor Support
10. Balancing Affordability and Profitability in the Housing Sector
11. Competing in the Premier League with Limited Financial Resources
12. Innovating in the Weight Loss Industry Amidst Ethical and Efficacy Challenges
13. Navigating Innovation, Ethics, and Profitability in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Think of this like one big classroom with an Instructor ensuring that the class remain focused on the particular topic/Case Study. This exchange of ideas between students from all over the world, is where true learning will take place.
Who this course is for:
- MBA students
- Business/Economics students studying a degree
- A level Business students
- Entrepreneurs
- Anyone and everyone with an interest in business
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 10,496 Reviews
- 252,464 Students
- 144 Courses
Studied at:
· University of Oxford (Philosophy and Economics)
· Oxford Brookes (Teacher training)
· University of Glamorgan (Business and Economics)
Qualifications
· Professional qualifications at Masters level
· Business and Economics degree
· Examiner for four major examining boards, at ‘O’ and ‘A’ level.
· Three teaching diplomas plus CELTA
· Qualified fitness trainer
Key academic positions held:
· Principal Oxford School of Learning
· Director of Studies: St Joseph’s Hall, Oxford
· Head of Economics: Cherwell Tutors
· Head of Business and Economics: Pipers Corner School, Buckingham
· Founder: Almost Random Theatre
I have experience in four main areas:
a. Teaching (40+ years of face-to-face experience)
b. Running businesses and conferences
c. Acting in films and theatre
d. Volunteering for a number of charities
Teaching/Instructor experience
Face-to-face: MBA students on a 1-1 basis; at University; Grammar, Comprehensive and F.E. College. This has included being Principal, Director of Studies; Head of Business and Head of Economics at various times in the past 40 years!
I have taught: Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics, English Literature and Psychology.
I have also run seminars for Teachers of |Psychology, Sociology, Businessman Economics.
I have run Therapeutic Art groups at Care Homes.
The success of my Business and Economics students has been featured in several newspapers plus I have appeared on BBC.
Running businesses and conferences.
I started Oxford School of Learning in the 1980s. From the college came Marketing Education Services, OSL Training and Saturday tutors.
In 201 I started Almost Random Theatre and have taken actors to Poland and the Czech Republic as well as running Drama days at schools.
Writing: my plays are sold to schools; I have 100+ books on Amazon; I used to write a regular column for The Guardian and BBC Bitesize.
Acting in films and theatre
My plays are sold to schools. I have performed at Oxford and Brighton Fringes as well as appearing in 100+ films, national TV advertising campaigns and role-played a hospital patient for Buckingham University’s medical degree students.
Volunteering
I have worked/am still working for Care Homes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dystonia Society, Stroke Association, Stroke Club, Talkback, Oxford Recovery College, Tandem, Age UK and Sport in Mind. I’ve given my tutorial fees to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dystonia Society. I currently have a GoFundMe page to help lonely elderly people.
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 7,691 Reviews
- 183,285 Students
- 52 Courses
Oxford School of Learning was set up in 1986. It became a limited company which was then closed down around 2018 as there was no need to keep it going. The School kept going though, writing/providing books, online courses and issuing the Oxford School of Learning Diploma to those who met difficult criteria.
As the name suggests, Oxford School of Learning is based in Oxford, UK. The original Principal was Chris Sivewright who now delivers various Economics and Business courses for us.