Although Maggie has expanded on her fathers "no-frills" business, she has retained his business basics he instilled in her from a young age.

The number of provisional members attending our school that teaches the business basics to prospective bookstore owners has increased substantially.

It has also bungled the business basics of pricing, production and planning.

And if headquarters officials are right, Mr. Staff's failure to keep his eye on business basics came at an additional cost: namely all its American profits in the last two years.

The MMM program offers a highly focused, condensed curriculum so that in a little over one year, participants master business basics, theory, strategies and practices relevant to the healthcare industry.

The venture capital business, she said, is now correcting the excesses of the last several years, bringing things back to business basics.

A high school dropout who eventually earned a general equivalency diploma, Mr. Amos knew little about business basics and failed to hire managers who did.

Many entrepreneurs access personal credit lines and credit cards to purchase business basics such as supplies, meals, travel, even computer or telecommunications equipment.

Users can tune in to a professionally-acted corporate soap, bone up on business basics, and grade themselves on how well they handled the overbearing boss or angry employee.

There's an additional advantage to mastering business basics: trendy concentrations can be a blot on one's résumé when a hot market cools.