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.
Everything filed under MBA for MSMEs.
Plain-language briefs, reviewers, and guides from this pillar — newest first.

Product Market Fit: Validate Before You Market
A reader wrote in this week with a plan I recognized immediately, because it was almost exactly my plan in…

Be a Detective, Not a Fortune Teller: A Mini-MBA Lens on Marketing for Small Businesses
The most expensive document a new business produces is usually its business plan. Not because writing one costs money. It…

UPOU E-Commerce Course
An open educational resource for the UPOU Introduction to E-Commerce certification: business models, payments, logistics, and the Philippine rules that…

Paano Magsimula ng Negosyo?
[00:00:00.000]Paano mag negosyo? [00:00:01.000]Paano magsimula ng isang negosyo? Palaging itoantanong sa akin ito ng mga studyante, kaibigan pati na ng…

Philippines’ Top 5 MBA Programs for Surefire Promotion
When I was in the workforce, I felt that waiting for promotion with just my work performance will be a…

UP MBA Proficiency Exam Reviewer
This UP MBA Proficiency Exam Reviewer article was written on March 25, 2013 and updated on March 24, 2020 I…

UP MBA Application: Best Advice for Aspirants
This UP MBA Application was published on August 7, 2012, and updated on March 22, 2020. My UP MBA Application…

Online Business Planning Course from UP Open University
After assessing my entrepreneurship qualities on the Personal Entrepreneurial Development course, I had to continue my transformation through this online business planning…

Online Entrepreneurship Course: Discover the Entrepreneur in You
Do you have what it takes to be an Entrepreneur? If you don’t know, there is an online entrepreneurship course…

Should I Pursue MBA? The Puzzling Question You Wanted Answers
Just this morning, I received a random message on my Facebook account. Should I Pursue MBA or other courses? When…

Marketing Management: The Definitive Marketing Strategy Guide
My MBA comprehensive exam reviewer on Kotler and Keller’s Marketing Management, rebuilt as a concept library for Philippine MSMEs designing…

Strategic Management Process and Strategic Planning Tools
The strategic management process end to end, plus the planning tools behind it — Porter’s Five Forces, Ansoff, BCG, the…
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.
The other pillars.
Four streams, one editorial calendar — or see everything in one place.
Mutual Wealth
Cooperatives, NSSLAs, and community enterprises — strategy for wealth that belongs to members and missions.
Governance
Public administration research, translated into plain-language briefs for LGUs and practitioners.
Teaching & Learning
Essays on teaching, studying online, exams, and getting into and through your program.
Beyond the writing.
When you need the frameworks applied to your own numbers, not just read about.
Consulting
Strategy, feasibility, and planning engagements for businesses, cooperatives, and government teams.
Training
Hands-on capability-building — the same frameworks, delivered live to your team or organisation.
About RM Nisperos
The credentials, institutions, and track record behind the briefs — the case for trusting the work.












