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MBA for MSMEs — Business Strategy for Philippine Owner-Operators

This is the MBA I teach at the University of the Philippines, rewritten for the people who actually run Philippine MSMEs — owner-operators, family-business successors, and first-time founders. Strategy, finance, operations, and marketing, stripped of the jargon and rebuilt around a single shop, a single cash position, a single team.

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The landmark guides

My MBA, dumped in full.

Five long-form references, rebuilt end to end from the material I teach. They are not meant to be read straight through. Open the one that matches the problem sitting on your desk this week, take the framework, close the tab. Every one of them is written for a business with one owner and no department to delegate to.

01Where I practise

Marketing Management

Segmentation, positioning, pricing, distribution, and the marketing plan that ties them together. The longest guide on this site and the one I reach for most in client work, because marketing is where an MSME either finds a customer it can keep or spends its way through the year.

  • Segmentation & targeting
  • Positioning
  • Pricing
  • Channel & promotion
Open the guide →
02Where I practise

The Strategic Management Process

How a strategy is actually made: read the environment, choose a direction you can defend, then do the unglamorous work of making the organisation move. This is the sequence I run with clients, from the first scan to the first review meeting.

  • Environmental scan
  • SWOT & strategic choice
  • Implementation
  • Change management
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03Supporting discipline

Operations Management

Capacity, layout, inventory, quality, and scheduling. The disciplines that decide whether the promise your marketing makes can be delivered on a Tuesday, at cost, without the owner in the room.

  • Capacity
  • Inventory
  • Quality
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04Supporting discipline

Financial Management

The formula sheet: ratios, working capital, cost of capital, and valuation, laid out as a cheat sheet rather than a chapter. Built to sit open beside your books, not to be read once and filed.

  • Ratios
  • Working capital
  • Valuation
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05Supporting discipline

Management Control Systems

Budgets, responsibility centres, transfer pricing, and performance measures. How an owner finds out a strategy is failing while there is still time and cash left to fix it.

  • Budgets
  • Responsibility centres
  • Performance measures
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Beyond the reading

Five guides, or five modules. Same material.

This is a curriculum, not a library. Reading it is free. Running it on your own numbers, with your own team in the room, is the harder half — and that is the half I am hired for.

Run these five as a workshop for your team→ Have the strategy and the plan built with you→
The archive

Everything filed under MBA for MSMEs.

Plain-language briefs, reviewers, and guides from this pillar — newest first.

About this pillar

An MBA, rebuilt for the way Philippine MSMEs actually run.

Most business education is written for corporations with departments, budgets, and a board. This pillar takes the same UP MBA disciplines — strategic management, operations, marketing, and financial management — and rewrites them for one owner doing the books at 11pm. Every brief is sourced, dated, and built to use this week, not to memorise for an exam.

Applying to graduate business school? Start with the UP MBA exam guide. Running a shop, a service, or a family business? The management briefs above are ordered newest-first, but each one stands on its own — read in any order.

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