Modern Management: concepts and skills, 14/e

B

• Baby Boom Generation, 57, 226

• Bank financing, 474

• Bank wiring observation room experiment, 452

• BCG Growth-Share Matrix, 161, 163

  • model, 162f

  • strategic business units (SBUs), 162

• Behavior modification, 327, 332, 335

  • reinforcement, 331–332

• Behavioral approach to management, 446, 451–453

• Benchmarks, 499

• Bias, 140

• Bicultural stress, 60

• Biculturalism, 60

• Big data, 401

• Boards of directors, women on, 225

• Boss-centered leaders, 300

• Bounded rationality, 139–140

• Brainstorming

  • decision-making, 144–145

  • process, 144f

• Break-even analysis

  • algebraic, 434–436

  • break-even point, 434

  • fixed/variable costs, 434, 435t

  • graphic, 435–436

  • loss, 434

  • profit, 434

  • revenue/costs, 435f

  • total cost, 434

  • total revenue, 434

• Brick-laying motion studies, 449, 449 ...