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P

• Pacesetting Leadership
• Packhard, Vance
• PAEI
• Paradox
• Paralysis by Analysis
• Parcell, Geoff
• Parental Value Creation
• Parenting Advantage
• Parenting Styles
• Pareto Principle
• Parochial Self-Interest
• Participative Leadership
• Participative Management
• Parkinson's Law
• PARTS
• Par Value
• Pascal, Richard Tanner
• Pathfinder Card
• Path-Goal Theory
• Payback Period
• PDSA Cycle
• Peer-Appraisal
• Peer Review
• PEG Ratio
• PEGY Ratio
• Penetration Pricing
• Penetration Strategy
• Pension Parachute
• People Capability Maturity Model
• People CMM
• People Pill
• P/E Ratio
• Perceived Value Pricing
• Percentage of Completion Method
• Perception
• Performance Appraisal
• Performance Management
• Performance Prism
• Performance Risk and Valuation Investment technology
• Performing of A Team
• Perishability
• Permission Marketing
• Perpetual Warrant
• Personal Belief Bias
• Personal Power
• Personnel Management Types
• Persuasion Techniques
• Persuasion Theory
• Persuasive Written Message
• PERT
• PEST Analysis
• Peter Principle
• Peters, Tom
• Pettigrew, Andrew
• Phantom Stock Plan
• Phenomenological Focus Group
• Physiological Needs
• Pierce, Charles Sanders

• P&L
• Placebo Effect
• Planning Fallacy Bias
• Planning School of Strategy Formation
• Plant Role, Belbin
• Plausibility Theory
• Play Theory of Mass Communication
• Pluralistic Ignorance
• PMBOK
• PMMM
• Poetic Principle
• Poincaré, Henri
• Poison Pills
• Poison Put
• Polanyi, Michael
• Policy Deployment - Hoshin Kanri
• Political, Economic, Social, Technological Analysis
• Polymorphic Opinion Leadership
• Porter, Michael E. | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
• Portfolio Agility
• Portfolio Insurance
• Portfolio Management | 2 | 3
• POSDCORB
• Positioning
• Positioning School of Strategy Formation
• Positive Deviance
• Positive Principle
• Post-Merger Integration
• Power
• Power Distance
• Power / Dynamism Matrix
• Powerful Media
• Power / Interest Matrix
• Power, Legitimacy And Urgency Model
• Power, Personal
• Power School of Strategy Formation
• PPM
• PR
• Prahalad, C.K. | 2 | 3 | 4
• Pre-Employment Screening
• Preferred Stock
• Prescripttive Intervention
• Presenteeism
• Present Value
• Pressure Group
• Preventive Maintenance
• Price Skimming
• Price to Earnings Ratio
• Price to Earning to Growth Ratio
• Primary Stakeholders
• PRIMO-F Model
• Prince2
• Principles Of Management
• Principles Of Reinvention
• Principles of Scientific Management
• Prisoner's Dilemma

• Private Incubators
• Privatization
• Proactive Downsizing
• Proactive Risk Management
• Problem Analysis Tree
• Process, Context, Content
• Process Culture
• Process Modeling
• Produce or Perish Style
• Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur, Integrator
• Product Development | 2
• Production Economies of Scale
• Productive Maintenance
• Product Leadership
• Product Life Cycle
• Product/Market Grid
• Product, Price, Place, Promotion
• Professional Bureaucracy
• Profitability over Responsibility
• Profit and Loss Statement
• Profit Center
• Profit Impact
• Profit Pools
• Pro Forma Earnings
• Program Evaluation and Review Technique
• Program Measurement
• Programme Management Maturity Model
• Project Deliverable
• Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Project Milestone
• Project Overview
• Project Planning Matrix
• Promise, Picture, Proof, and Push
• Promotional Pricing
• Proportional Representation
• Proportional Voting
• Prospector
• Protest Group
• Prudence Trap
• PRVit
• Pryor, Dr. Mildred Golden
• Psychographic Segmentation | 2
• Psychological Pricing
• Public Incubators
• Public Relations
• Purchasing Economies of Scale
• Purchasing Management
• Purchasing Patterns
• Purchasing Portfolio
• Pursuing Enlightened Self-Interest
• Put Option
• Puzzle
• Pygmalion Effect
• Pyramid Principle
• Pyramid, Bottom Of the

Q

• QFD
• QRM
• Quality Function Deployment
• Qualitative Investment Analysis
• Quantitative Investment Analysis
• Question Mark
• Quick Ratio
• Quick Response Manufacturing
• Quinn, James Brian
• Quinn, Robert

• Quotes on Business Ethics
• Quotes on Change and Organizations
• Quotes on Communication
• Quotes on Decision-making
• Quotes on Finance and Investing
• Quotes on HRM
• Quotes on Knowledge Management

• Quotes on Leadership
• Quotes on Marketing
• Quotes on Project Management
• Quotes on Quality
• Quotes on Strategy
• Quotes on SCM

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R

• RACI
• RADAR Scoring Matrix
• Ramaswamy, Venkatram
• Rapid Approach
• Rapid Deployment Specialist
• RAROC
• RASCI
• RASIC
• Rate of Return
• Rationalization
• Rätselvermehrung
• RBV
• R&D Consortium
• Reacquired Stock
• Reactive Downsizing
• Reactor
• Real Options
• Real Ratio
• Reassurance of Worth
• Rebalancing
• Rebranding
• Recallability Trap
• Recapitalization
• Recovering Investments
• Redemption Value
• Red Ocean Strategy
• Reengineering
• Referent Power
• Refreezing
• Regression Analysis
• Reis, Geoff
• Relational Capital
• Relation Analysis
• Relationship Builder
• Relationship Marketing

• Relative Value of Growth
• Remunerative Incentive
• Repeat Purchases
• Repetition-Validity Effect
• Reported Earnings
• Reputation, Corporate
• Reputation, Online
• Required Rate of Return
• Required Return
• Residual Income
• Residual Value
• Resilience, Organizational
• Resistance To Change
• Resonance
• Resource-Based View
• Resource Investigator Role, Belbin
• Responsibilities, Assigning
• Responsibility, Corporate
• Responsibility Over Profitability
• Restraining Forces
• Restructuring
• Result Oriented Management
• Results-Based Leadership
• Retail Mix
• Retained Earnings
• Retention Ratio
• Retroductive Reasoning
• Return on Capital Employed
• Return on Equity
• Return on Invested Capital
• Return on Investment
• Return on Net Assets
• Return on Sales
• Revans, Reg

• Revenue Center
• Revenue Recognition
• Reverse Auction
• Reverse Logistics
• Reverse Positioning
• Reverse Takeover
• Review of 163 Leadership Trait Studies
• Reward Power
• RFID Technology
• Ries, Al
• Ring Fencing
• Risk-bearing Economies Of Scale
• Risk Management
• Risk Threshold
• Rivkin, Jan. W.
• ROCE
• ROE
• Rogers, Everett
• ROI
• ROIC
• RONA
• Root Cause Analysis
• Roots
• Rule of 72
• Rule of Three
• RVG
• Ryan, Tony

S

• Safe Harbor
• Safe Harbor Statement
• Safety Needs
• Sale and Leaseback
• Salience Transfer
• Salvage Value
• Say's Law
• SBU
• Schein, Edgard
• Scenario Planning
• Schiller, Herbert J.
• Schmidt (the Good worker)
• Schmidt, W.H.
• Schmitt, Bernd
• Schnelle, Wolfgang and Eberhard
• Schön, Donald
• Schouten, Jan
• Scientific Management
• Scorched Earth Defense
• SCQ Framework
• S-Curve
• SECI model
• Second-mover Strategy
• Second Round Financing
• Secondary Stakeholders
• Secured Bond
• Securitization
• Seed Money
• Segmentation
• Segmented Marketing
• Selective Distribution
• Self-Actualization
• Self-Appraisal
• Self-Censorship
• Self-Directed Team
• Self-Esteem Needs
• Self-Managed Team
• Self-Presentation
• Self-serving Bias
• Sell-Side Analyst
• Senge, Peter
• Sense of Power
• Servant-Leadership
• Service Industry
• Service Quality Performance
• Service Sector
• Services Marketing
• SERVQUAL
• Seven Habits
• Seven Signs Of Ethical Collapse
• Seven Surprises
• SG&A
• Shadow Stock Plan
• Shaper Role, Belbin
• Shareholders’ Equity
• Shareholder Value
• Shareholder Value Perspective
• Shark Repellent
• Sharpe, William
• Shaw, Don
• Sherif, Muzafer
• Sheth, Jagdish
• Shopper Card
• Short and Distort
• Short Covering
• Short Selling
• Shrinkage
• Silverman, George Abraham
• Simon, Herbert
• Simons, Robert
• Simulation
• Single-loop Learning
• Single Sourcing

• Situational Analysis
• Situational Attribution
• Situational Leadership
• Situational Theory
• Six Category Intervention Analysis
• Six Sigma
• Six Thinking Hats
• Skandia Navigator
• Skeleton Staff
• Sleeper Effect
• SLEPT Analysis
• Slywotzky, Adrian J.
• SMART | 2
• Smart Cards
• Snow, Charles
• Social Capital
• Social Judgment Theory
• Social Marketing
• Social Power
• Social Utility
• SOFT Analysis
• Soft Change Approach
• SOFT Model
• Soft Systems Methodology
• SOSTAC
• Span of Control
• Specialist Product
• Specialist Role, Belbin
• Special Purpose Vehicle
• Specific Risk
• Spin-Off
• Spiral Dynamics
• Spiral Of Silence
• SPM
• SSM
• Staff Management
• Stage-Gate
• Stages Of Hypercompetition
• Stages Of Personal Power
• Stages Of Team Development
• Staggered Board of Directors
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Stakeholder Approach
• Stakeholder Mapping
• Stakeholders
• Stakeholder Value Perspective
• Standard Cost Pricing
• Standstill Agreement
• Star
• Star Model (Galbraith)
• Start-up Company
• Status Quo Bias
• Statutory Voting
• Stealth Positioning
• STEEPLE Analysis
• Stephenson, William
• Stermin, Jerry
• Stimulus – Resistance – Response
• Stimulus – Response
• Stock Appreciation Rights
• Stock Dividend
• Stockless Production
• Stock Option Plan
• Stock Purchase Plan
• Storming
• Storytelling
• Straight-line Depreciation
• Strategic Agility
• Strategic Alignment
• Strategic Alliance
• Strategic Analysis
• Strategic Business Unit

• Strategic Control Parenting Style
• Strategic Cost Analysis
• Strategic Distress
• Strategic Fit
• Strategic Grid For IT
• Strategic Infliction Point
• Strategic Information Systems
• Strategic Intent
• Strategic Items
• Strategic Momentum
• Strategic Options Analysis
• Strategic Performance Management
• Strategic Planning
• Strategic Planning Parenting Style
• Strategic Portfolio Planning
• Strategic Reasoning
• Strategic Resilience
• Strategic Risk
• Strategic Risk Management
• Strategic Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Synergy
• Strategic Thrusts
• Strategic Triangle | 2
• Strategic Types
• Strategic Use of IT
• Strategic Vision
• Strategic Window
• Strategy Analysis
• Strategy Change Cycle
• Strategy Dynamics
• Strategy Execution
• Strategy Formation
• Strategy Maps
• STRATPORT
• Strenghts, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
• Stretch Goals
• Structured Writing
• Subliminal Advertizing
• Subscripttion Ratio
• Subscripttion Right
• Substitution Effect
• Succession Planning
• Sull, Donald
• Sum of Years Digits Depreciation Method
• Sunk Cost Bias
• Sun Tzu
• Supervisors Skills
• Supplier Collection
• Supplier Evaluation
• Supplier Managed Inventory
• Supplier Rating
• Supply Chain Design
• Supply Chain Planning
• Supply Network
• Supply Risk
• Supportive Intervention
• Supportive Leadership
• Suri, Rayan
• Survivorship Bias
• Sustainable Competitive Advantage
• Sustainability
• Sveiby, Karl-Erik
• SWOT Analysis
• Synchromarketing
• Synectics
• Synergy
• Synthesis
• Synthetic Thinking
• System Dynamics
• Systemic Risk
• Systems Thinking

T

• Tacit Knowledge
• Takeover
• Takeuchi, Hirotaka
• Talent Management
• Tangible Assets
• Tangible Book Value
• Tannebaum, Percy
• Tannenbaum, R.
• Targeted Repurchase
• Target Marketing
• Target Pricing
• Tavris, Carol
• Tax Haven
• Taylor, Frederick Winslow
• Taylorism
• TBL
• TBR
• TCO
• TDC Matrix
• Team Building
• Team Development
• Team Management Profile
• Team Management Wheel
• Team Member Behavior
• Team Roles Theory, Belbin
• Team Style
• Teamworker Role, Belbin
• Technical Analysis
• Technical Problems
• Technological Forecasting
• Technology Adoption
• Teece, David
• Telemarketing
• Teleshopping
• Ten Commandments for Media Consumers
• Ten Schools of Thought
• Terminal Value
• Tertiary Sector
• Theory E
• Theory O

• Theory Of Constraints
• Theory Of Mechanistic and Organic Systems
• Theory of Needs
• Theory Of Planned Behavior
• Theory of Reasoned Action
• Theory X Theory Y
• Theory Z
• Thesis
• Thinker's Keys
• Thinking Preferences
• Third Party Logistics (3PL)
• Thom, René
• Threat of Substitutes
• Three Dimensional Business Definition
• Three Levels of Culture
• Three Needs Theory
• Tie-in Marketing
• Tiggelaar, Ben
• Time Distance Complexity Matrix
• Time-Driven Activity Based Costing
• Time Management
• Time to Market
• Time Value of Money
• Top-10 Management Concepts
• Top-down Approach
• TOPS 8D
• Total Business Return
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Total Productive Maintenance
• Total Productive Manufacturing
• Total Quality Management
• Total Shareholder Return
• Tough-Guy Macho Culture
• TOWS Analysis
• Toyota System
• TQM
• Trade Advertising
• Trade Marketing
• Trade Marketing Mix
• Trade-off
• Traditional Warrant

• Training Within Industry
• Trait Leadership Theory
• Trajectories Of Industry Change
• Transactional Factors
• Transactional Leadership
• Transaction Cost Economics
• Transfer Pricing
• Transformational Factors
• Transformational Leadership
• Transmission Model
• Transparency, Corporate
• Treacy, Michael
• Treasury Stock
• Trice, Harrison
• Trimble, Chris
• Triple Bottom Line
• Triple Constraints
• TRIZ
• Trout, Jack
• TSR
• Tuckman, Bruce
• Turnaround Consultants
• Turnaround Management
• Turnaround Plan
• Turnaround Process
• Turnkey Contract
• Tversky, Amos
• Twelve Principles Of the Network Economy
• Twenty Thinker's Keys
• TWI
• Two Factor Theory
• Two Step Flow Model
• Two-Tier Board Structure
• Two-sided Focus Groups
• Types of Corporate Cultures
• Types Of Work Model
• Tyson, Shaun

U

• Ulrich, Dave
• Ultra Vires
• Unaided Recall
• Unbranding
• Uncertainty Avoidance
• Unconnected Problems
• Undercapitalization

• Undifferentiated Marketing
• Undistributed Profits
• Unfreezing, Moving, Refreezing
• Unique Selling Proposition
• Unissued Stock

• Unity of Command
• Unity of Direction
• Unsegmented Marketing
• Uses and Gratifications Theory
• US GAAP
• USP

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V

• Valence
• Validity Effect
• VALS types
• Value Analysis
• Value at Risk
• Value Based Management
• Value Chain
• Value Creation Index
• Value Disciplines
• Value Engineering
• Value for Money Audit
• Value Management
• Value Mapping
• Value Net
• Value of IT | 2

• Value Profit Chain
• Value Proposition
• ValueReporting Framework
• Values and Lifestyles
• Value Stream Mapping
• Variable Costing
• Variable Costs
• VBM
• Vendor Managed Inventory
• Vendor Rating
• Venkatraman
• Venture Capitalists
• Venture Funding
• Vertical Agreement
• Vertical Diversification
• Vertical Integration

• Vertical Merger
• VFM Auditing
• Vicarious Consumption
• Virtual Business
• Virtual Company
• Vision
• Visionary Leadership
• Vision Statement
• vMEMES
• VMI
• VMOST
• Voting Rights Plan
• VRIN Resources
• Vroom, Victor | 2
• Vulture Capitalist

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W

• WACC
• Wade, Carole
• Wage Drift
• Waldroop, James
• Warrant
• Warren, Kim
• Waste Management
• Watchdog Model
• Waterman, Bob
• Weber, Max
• Web Marketing Mix
• Weighted Average Cost of Capital

• Welch, J.
• Wheel of Consumer Analysis
• Whipp, Richard
• Whisper Number
• Whistle Blower
• White Knight
• Whole Brain Model
• Wiersema, Fred
• Wilde, Dean L.
• Window of Opportunity
• Wiseman, Rackoff, Ulrich

• With, Bob de
• WOMM
• Word of Mouth Marketing
• Work Absenteeism
• Work-based Competencies
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Workforce Reducation
• Work-Hard, Play-Hard Culture
• Working Capital
• Working Capital Ratio
• Work Presenteeism
• World Class Manufacturing

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X

• X-Efficiency

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Y

• Yerkes-Dockson Law
• Yield Management

• Yield to Maturity
• YTM

• Yunus, Muhammad

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Z

• Zachman, John
• Zeithaml, Valarie A.
• Zero Based Budgeting

• Zero Defects
• Zero-sum Game

• Zimbardo, Philip G.
• Z-Score