Business is activity or enterprise aimed at making profit, and the study of Business explores different aspects, processes or parts of how that is achieved. There are a range of ways that Business can be divided further into subjects such as Management, Marketing and aspects of Economics, Accountancy and other fields. Below, you will find a list of things that you could use to learn more about Business, or to improve a future application to university.
Books; Business is a field absolutely full of books, and with constant new releases. It is worth being up to date with the best-seller list, but also keeping an open mind about what is useful and what isn't. The following books come highly recommended:
Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull (co-founder of Pixar)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Startup by J. Carreyrou
Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton
The Value of Everything - Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt by Michael Lewis
Newspapers, Magazines and Journals; The Economist Magazine; The Financial Times Newspaper; Business Insider; Forbes Magazine; The Harvard Business Review;
Podcasts; Business as Usual is aimed at school pupils; This is Money podcast; Bloomberg Business Week (US based); HBR Ideacast (Harvard Business Review Podcast); Business Wars (focuses on competition between businesses such as Red Bull and Monster Energy Drinks); How I Built This (interviews successful and well known Businesspeople); the $100 MBA; BBC World Service Business Daily Podcast
YouTube Channels; Business Casual; Harvard Business Review; Business Insider; Stanford Graduate School of Business; CNN Business; International Business Times
Video; Gresham College Lectures (Business Search) are a great resource; TED Talks (Business Search); There are some excellent Business Documentaries including; Betting on Zero; Requiem for the American Dream; The True Cost; Banking on Bitcoin; Holy Land: Startup Nations
Competitions; Tycoon - the competition founded by Peter Jones from Dragon's Den (School entry required); Student Investor Challenge (School entry); Young Financial Journalist Competition; In terms of essay competitions the Dukes Education Essay Prize (open to S4 and S5 (Y11/12) pupils) invites essays from any academic discipline provided it corresponds to one of the set concepts/words so you could enter a Business/Business Management essay
Events or Activities; A good way of showing a flair for Business is to start a small enterprise of your own in your spare time; another thing you could do is to start a Business club in your school which could discuss the major Business news, enter competitions as a team or run a school competition such as a Fantasy Stock Market or a small charity enterprise competition, for example entrants compete to see who can turn their initial £5 investment into the largest amount with proceeds to a charity and a small prize for the winner.