The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to business:

Business – organization of one or more individuals, engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers, and the activity of such organizations, also known as "doing business".

Types of businesses By activity

By legal structure

Types of business entity Sole proprietorship Partnership Corporation

Business activities Accounting Commerce Finance Industrial and labour relations Management (outline) Manufacturing Marketing Research and development Supply Chain

Concepts Advertising Banking Barter Big business Business acumen Business broker Business ethics Business hours Business intelligence Business mediator Business model design Business plan Business process modeling Business reference model Business rule Business schools Business trip Closure business Capitalism Change management analyst Commercial law Company Competition Competitive advantage Cooperative Core competency Corporate law Corporation Cost overrun Debenture Division business Ebusiness Economic democracy Economics Electronic business Electronic commerce Entrepreneurship Equity investment Financial economics Franchising Government ownership Growth platforms Human Resources Index of accounting articles Industry Insurance Intellectual property Interim Management International trade Investment (economics) Investment management Job creation program Labour economics Limited liability List of billionaires List of business theorists Lists of companies List of economists List of international trade topics List of oldest companies List of production topics List of real estate topics List of theory of constraints topics Management Management information systems Management philosophy Manufacturing Market forms Marketing plan Mass media Middle management Money Organizational studies Outline of business management Outline of commercial law Outline of economics Outline of finance Outline of marketing Outline of production Outline of project management Partnership Process management Profit (disambiguation) Project management Real Estate Renewable Energy Revenue shortfall Senior management Small business Social responsibility Social security Strategic management Strategic planning Strategy dynamics Startup company Tax The Design of Business Theory of constraints Trade name Value migration

Business scholars Peter Drucker Tom Peters

Leaders in business

Al-Waleed bin Talal Warren Buffett Elon Musk Andrew Carnegie Walt Disney Thomas Edison Michael Eisner Henry Ford Bill Gates J. Paul Getty Howard Hughes Steve Jobs Ray Kroc Li Ka-shing Lakshmi Mittal J. P. Morgan Rupert Murdoch Aristotle Onassis Amancio Ortega John D. Rockefeller J. R. Simplot Carlos Slim Ratan Tata Ted Turner Sam Walton Thomas J. Watson

See also Outline of business management Outline of consulting Outline of finance Outline of management

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