Introduction to Business
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Understanding Business, 13th Edition
By William Nickels, Jim McHugh, Susan McHugh © 2022
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Understanding Business: The Core, 3rd Edition
By William Nickels, Jim McHugh, Susan McHugh © 2024
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Business Foundations: A Changing World, 13th Edition
By O. C. Ferrell, Geoffrey Hirt, Linda Ferrell © 2023
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M: Business, 7th Edition
By O. C. Ferrell, Geoffrey Hirt, Linda Ferrell © 2022
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Author Blogs
Create an ultra-current and relevant course with content that is updated multiple times each month! These author blogs provide a variety of business topics and skills impacting industry decisions today. Use these to drive engagement in your next lecture and support career readiness. Subscribe to receive updates right to your inbox.
Connect for Introduction to Business
Application-Based Activities
Prepare students for the real world with Application-Based Activities (ABA) in Connect. These highly interactive, assignable exercises boost engagement and provide a safe space to apply concepts learned to real-world, course-specific problems. Each ABA involves the application of multiple concepts, providing the ability to synthesize information and use critical-thinking skills to solve realistic scenarios.
Manager’s Hot Seat Videos
These actor-portrayed videos depict real-life situations where a manager is faced with a dilemma that needs to be analyzed based on management concepts. These videos enable students to see how managers in realistic situations deal with employees and complex issues. Students will use their critical thinking skills to apply, analyze, and evaluate these managerial challenges, while learning from the manager’s mistakes. Each video includes follow-up multiple-choice questions that are assignable and auto-gradable.
iSeeit! Videos
Brief, contemporary, and engaging videos offer dynamic, student-centered introductions, illustrations, and animations to guide students through challenging concepts. Ideal for before class as an introduction, during class to launch or clarify a topic, or after class for formative assessment.
Video Cases
Bring concepts to life with assignable live-action videos! These cases feature real-world scenarios and firms. Our video cases are complete with auto-graded, thought-provoking questions. All designed to challenge students’ ability to apply business concepts to everyday situations, real products and companies helping develop their workplace readiness skills!
Click and Drags
These exercises help students make the connect between theory and application through matching, ranking, or group activities.
SmartBook 2.0
SmartBook 2.0 is an adaptive reading and learning solution. Rooted in learning science principles like spacing, chunking, and interleaving, SmartBook 2.0 creates mini-cycles of questions that consist of no more than five concepts at a time, creating smaller, easier-to-absorb “chunks” of content. The unique question approach improves comprehension and long-term retention, building student confidence. Assignments can be completed on the ReadAnywhere app, providing students access 24/7.
Writing Assignment
Help students improve their conceptual understanding and written communication skills with McGraw Hill Connect’s Writing Assignments. Integrate writing skill development into your course with ease and help your students gain the critical writing skills they need for success now and beyond. Assign, monitor, mark, and provide feedback all in one place.
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McGraw Hill Business Program: Supercharge your students’ readiness
McGraw Hill’s Business Program exists to supercharge your students’ readiness, through their college experience and for their careers. As the market leader, McGraw Hill will help your students stay engaged and motivated while acquiring the quantitative and soft skills they need to succeed—from analytics to communication.
