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.
Management Control Systems: Executing Strategy and Management
Table of Contents • The Nature of Management Control SystemsUnderstanding StrategiesResponsibility Centers: Revenue and Expense CentersProfit CentersTransfer PricingInvestment CentersStrategic PlanningBudget…
Lean Startup Principles for SMEs
A lean startup basically means ‘failing fast, failing cheap but learning more’. It means testing the market of what you…
Finance Cheat Sheet: Formulas and Concepts
Table of Contents Role of Financial Manager Financial Analysis Quality of Earnings Financial Planning Working Capital Management Cash Management Capital…
UP MBA GPAT: 8 Best Steps to Ace it
This UP MBA GPAT Article was published on March 11, 2015, and updated on March 24, 2020. In 2012, I…
8 Great Signs Of A Successful Entrepreneur
There are advantages and disadvantages to a successful entrepreneur. Here are the signs you are turning into a successful entrepreneur.…
How Much is the UP MBA Tuition Fee?
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My Personal Blueprint for Philippine eCommerce
Having attended the 5th Philippine eCommerce Entreprenuer’s Summit hosted by the DigitalFilipino.com, I had few ideas for improvement. E-Commerce is…
The Ugly And The Beautiful In E-Commerce
E-commerce continuously knocks on the door of the world market. Though its full potential is still to be seen, especially…
5 Best Elevator Pitch Tips for Entrepreneurs
An elevator pitch happens when delivering a persuasive, call-to-action speech to a person in an elevator ride that only span from…
Entrepreneur Test: Assess Yourself With 11 Difficult Questions
A typical entrepreneur test will ask people: Do you want to have your own business and be their own boss?…
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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