Accretion – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is Accretion?Accretion is slow growth through gradual accumulation. In business, accretion occurs when profits are a direct result of a gain in assets or business growth. In investing, investors expect to see capital gains accumulate on investment. This is also...

Availability Bias – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior

What is Availability Bias?Availability bias is the tendency of humans to believe things that readily come to mind are more important than those not readily recalled.

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

What is Strategy?Summary: Business strategy is a planned approach toward a commercial activity. It involves the direction of the organization in achieve a short-term goal or long-term mission. Strategy considers the use or configuration of resource within the business...

Developing a Product or Service

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Product or Service DevelopmentThe development stage is where you set into motion the value creation process. By its very nature, a product or service serves or purpose or objective that another person entity is unable to fulfill. This process involves the technical...

Market Analysis and Entrepreneurship

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Market AnalysisMarket research is the process of identifying and quantifying potential markets in which to sell a product or service. The process is far more than mere quantitative analysis of numbers of potential customers and past purchasing date. It involves many...

Ideation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Strategy, Entrepreneurship, & Innovation

Ideation and InnovationIdeation and innovation are two closely related, but distinct, concepts. Ideation springs from its route word, “idea”. It involves the mental process of brainstorming concepts and theories. Innovation involves the process of turning...

A B Testing – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Operations, Project, & Supply Chain Management

What is A/B testing?A/B testing is a comparison method that is used to compare two versions of an app or webpage against each other to identify the version that performs best. The method is also known as “bucket testing” or “split...

Autoregressive Moving Average (ARMA) – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Research, Quantitative Analysis, & Decision Science

What is an Autoregressive Moving Average?The ARMA is a forecasting model in which the methods of autoregression (AR) analysis and moving average (MA) are both applied to time-series data that is stable. What Does an Autoregressive Moving Average Work?In ARMA it is...

Aspect Ratio – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | SEO, Social Media, Direct Marketing

What is an Aspect Ratio?This is an attribute of image projection that gives a description of the width of an image and its proportional relationship its height.How is an Aspect Ratio Used?The Aspect ratio is a description of the rectangle on the TV screen which limits...

Amortization of Bond Discount – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is Amortization of Bond Discount?Amortization is a process carried out to reduce the cost base of a bond for each period to reflect the economic reality of the bonds approaching maturity. The amortization is done at par. It is easy to prepare, and it is essential...