Course curriculum

  • 1

    Thinking About Doing An Extended Essay For Business Management?

    • Be Your Best Self Every Day

    • Video: What You Should Be Aware Of Before Starting Your BM EE

    • Start Here With The IB Extended Essay Complete Guide - Read The Business Management Pages 146-154

    • Your Sources Must Not Be Older Than 4 Years (= Find A Recent Hot Topic From Within The Past 4 Years)

    • Quick Start Guide

    • IB's Main Objective = ATL (Approaches To Learning) Talk About These 5 Skills In Your Reflections- They Are Scored By Examiners!

    • THE RHS EE Guide (Sept. 2022)
  • 2

    How To Design Your Best RQ

    • Read These BM EE Titles To See What Yours Should Look Like

    • The IB Business Management EE Guide- Read This Several Times Throughout Your EE Journey

    • Not Sure Which Company To Choose For Your BM EE? (Junior Year's February Task)

    • Option 1: Find A Company With A Recent Crisis (Watch This Boeing Example)

    • Option 2: Find A Company Being Successful (Zipline Example)

    • Extra Help Getting Started With Your EE Research Question (RQ)

    • Focus Your RQ On The BM Key Term Not The Company

    • Past, Present Or Future? IA vs EE

    • The BM EE Poster - Most Important Rules To Know (Read Each Column Top To Bottom)

    • Video: How To Do Research Using Scholarly Business Journals (Ask The Media Specialist In The Library Which Databases Are Available)

    • List Of Business Websites For Finding For Your BM Tools (February Task)

    • Which IB BM Key Term Fits For A Human Resource Topic At A Non-Profit

    • MUST READ: Final Tour Of Your EE Thinking & Writing Process

    • Tesla Article Used As Example In Article Above.

    • IB's Guide On How You Cite & Build Your References Page At The End Of Your EE (Published 2022)
  • 3

    EE Meetings, Monthly Reflections & Assignments

    • Dr. Bogard's EE Time Line From Beginning to End

    • Meetings Packet - Bring this to every EE meeting

    • EE Planning Worksheet Assignment (complete & discuss in March or April)

    • Tips To Help You Complete Your Planning Worksheet

    • Visual Outline Assignment: Upload Your Completed Picture In ManageBac. Print A Copy & Complete It. Schedule A Meeting With Dr. Bogard To Discuss It. You May Turn This In To The IB Office Before Senior Year Starts In August!

    • What Happens If You Miss Your Scheduled Meeting?

    • Requirement: Write Your First Reflection In MB At The End Of The First Advisor Meeting
  • 4

    IB Examiner Advice

    • Examiners' Overall Scoring Comments About Submitted BM EEs

    • Examiner Comments About Student Reflections

    • Here Is What IB Wants You To Do When Writing Your Reflections
  • 5

    Here Are Sample EEs That Earned An 'A' & Here Is Your Template (Remember To Use Different Words)

    • Our Tesla EE That Scored An A (You May Not Choose The Same Company Or The Same Research Question)

    • Our IKEA EE That Scored An A (You May Not Choose The Same Company Or The Same Research Question)

    • Another Of Our EEs That Scored an A (Your EE May Not Use The Same Company Or the Same RQ)

    • Take A Look Through Dr. Bogard's BM EE Template (please do not share or circulate-it is not an official IB resource)

    • Download Your Template Here...
  • 6

    This Is How Your EE Is Scored

    • The EE Scoring Rubric (34 Marks)

    • IB EE Grade Descriptors- Read Each & Note The Things You Must Do To Earn a Final Score Of " A"

    • Learn What The Expectations Are For Each Criteria

    • EE Scores and Boundaries

    • EE Scoring Criteria- The Most Detailed Information To Guide Your Writing
  • 7

    Your EE Affects Your IB Diploma

    • A Great EE Can Earn You Bonus Points On Your IB Diploma

    • Know The IB Rules For Earning Your IB Diploma
  • 8

    Tools, Techniques, Theories

    • How The Tools Fit Into The Structure of the EE

    • List Of Most Popular Analysis Tools

    • Complete List of Tools, Techniques and Theories from the IB BM Syllabus
  • 9

    How To Read Your Company's Financial Reports

    • Video: How To Read An Annual Report In 60 Minutes (The 2017 Sample Used In These Videos Can Be Downloaded Here)

    • Video: What Is An Income Statement (Also Called A Profit & Loss Account)? It's Inside The Annual Report

    • Video: An Example Of How To Read And Understand An Income Statement For A Specific Company

    • Video: How To Read A Cash Flow Statement (It's Also Inside The Company's Annual Report)

    • Video: An Example Of Reading A Cash Flow Statement Using Tesla (It's In Their Annual Report, Of Course)

    • Video: How To Read A Balance Sheet (It's Inside The Annual Report As Well)

    • Annual Report: When Investigating An Acquisition...
  • 10

    How To Start Writing

    • Article 1 - How To Start Your BM EE (Late February / Early March Work Of Junior Year)

    • Article 2 - Three Easy Steps To Master Your BM EE (Summer Work Before Senior Year)

    • Article 3 - How To Write An Analysis That Supports Your Findings (Summer Work)

    • Article 4 - How To Make Your Good EE Great (Late Summer Work)

    • Article 5 - Dr. Bogard Explains What It Means To Analyze

    • Article 6 - What Is An Evaluative Statement? (You Must Include These In Your EE)
  • 11

    Write Like a Professional - Use APA Style

    • Understand What Plagiarism Is So You Don't Do It By Accident

    • Humor: Check & Verify What You See & Hear From Your Sources

    • You Must Use A Quote That Ends With An APA Citation In Every Paragraph (Every Source On Your "References Page" Must Be Quoted At Least Once!)

    • Handout: 4-Page APA Booklet With Examples

    • Handout: APA Quick Guide

    • Your Complete Guide To Using APA Style With Complete Examples

    • Use These 3 Writing Methods To Avoid Plagiarizing

    • Must Read: The IB Citation Rule Book

    • How To Cite AI Tools (AI Sources Are Not Reliable & May Not Be Appropriate For Any Part Of Your EE)
  • 12

    Your Finished EE

    • Time To Make Some Vocabulary Adjustments

    • How To Shorten Your Final EE Draft

    • The Final EE A-Z Checklist (You Must Write Each Letter On Your Hard Copy)

    • After Getting Your Draft Back- Follow These Steps To A Final Paper

    • How To Replace Your Descriptive Sentences With Analytical Sentences (Look At The Second Page)
  • 13

    Viva Voce

    • Video: What Is The Purpose of the Viva Voce?

    • Viva Voce Due Dates

    • How To Confirm Your Viva Voce

    • Viva Voce Presentation Handout

    • IB Requires You To Submit This Completed RPPF Form Into IBIS (You Can't Earn The Diploma Without This)