Baby Boom Generation, 57, 226

Bank financing, 474

Bank wiring observation room experiment, 452

BCG Growth-Share Matrix, 161, 163

• model, 162f

• strategic business units (SBUs), 162

Behavior modification, 327, 332, 335

• reinforcement, 331–332

Behavioral approach to management, 446, 451–453

Benchmarks, 499

Bias, 140

Bicultural stress, 60

Biculturalism, 60

Big data, 401

Boards of directors, women on, 225

Boss-centered leaders, 300

Bounded rationality, 139–140

Brainstorming

• decision-making, 144–145

• process, 144f

Break-even analysis

• algebraic, 434–436

• break-even point, 434

• fixed/variable costs, 434, 435t

• graphic, 435–436

• loss, 434

• profit, 434

• revenue/costs, 435f

• total cost, 434

• total revenue, 434

Brick-laying motion studies, 449, 449t

Budgetary control, 429–430

Bullying, 252

Bureaucracy, 179

Business Conduct Guide, 370

Business ethics, 39

Business portfolio analysis, 161, 169

• BCG Growth-Share Matrix, 161–162

• GE Multifactor Portfolio Matrix, 161