Real Estate Case Competition: Ross School Future of Real Estate: Business Plan Creation
This guide provides students with resources that assist with the Case Competition sponsored by the Weiser Center for Real Estate, Ross School of Business.
Handbooks, Business Planning and Research
Description: The Business Plans Handbook has examples of actual business plans that are aimed at entrepreneurs who are seeking funding for small business ventures.
This guide presents some helpful tips for pre-writing, writing and revising your business paper. Some helpful links to punctuation and clarity and style guides, too.
Google's Digital Marketing Evangelist's blog "Occam's Razor" offers tips and examples for competitive intelligence analysis, with a focus on web analytics
Michael Porter's influential Five Forces theory has been used by business strategists for over thirty years (Ross and UMich users who want full access: please contact the library)
Details the benefits of conducting an analysis for predicting the success of a business as well as how to evaluate SWOT results to visualize potential benefits, risks, and assets along with other examples to help with the strategic planning of a business.
Business model generation - additional resources and readings
From the SCORE Association of the Small Business Administration--includes downloadable templates for break-even analysis, projected balance sheets and more.