Business Thesis

You can start putting to use all you’ve learned in school while studying business into the creation of your business thesis. It begins with organization, creating a plan. Brainstorm on your strengths for a moment. What are you most interested in? What will represent your abilities best on paper? The business thesis is the pinnacle of your degree. It will represent you in more ways than one. Choose your topic wisely.

Some good business thesis topics include:

• International Business
• Small Business Theory
• Small Business to Big Business
• Growing a Business
• Starting a Business
• Business Marketing Solutions
• Business Management Skills
• Building a Business Team
• Women in Business
• Industry in Business
• Business Technology
• Business and Motivation Techniques
• Organization of Business
• Government and Big Business
• Creating a Business Plan

Also, like any business, you’ll need an angle one you’ve chosen your topic. You could write 30,000 pages on International Business. You need something that can be thoroughly explored in 30 to 40 pages, depending on the requirements of your department. How about ‘International Business Ethics in the 1980s’? Or ‘Business Technology Developments in India’. With the right research, these topics can be narrowed down even more.

The most important things to remember are these:

• You still need to be able to fill up those 30 to 40 pages so you don’t want a topic too narrow in focus.
• Your business thesis statement must be relevant and necessary to answer for the progression of the industry.

When you’ve chosen your topic, the angle, and decided upon a business thesis statement, take it to your advising professor. There’s no reason to proceed if you’re only going to be sent back to square one. Though you may have been in school for years, you may not be aware of the books written and research done on your topic of choice. Your thesis statement may have become irrelevant in the past few years or written upon extensively by another member of the faculty (which may either push you to change your statement or request to have this person become your advisor). You’ll never know until you ask.

This is no time play devil’s advocate. Use your business thesis as an excuse to make contacts with companies you are interested in working for. Whether you request interviews or just want to ask someone’s opinion, your thesis could be just the right introduction to set a positive tone for a lifelong working relationship. You may even want to go so far as to design your thesis topic around the information or interests of a target potential employer. Business is all about strategy. There’s no need to waste this golden opportunity.

If you’re interests are less rat race than that, more research oriented, focus on creating a paper that may potentially be published in a respected journal. Clips get you more jobs as well as assistantships and professorships. If you have to write this paper and you intend to use this as a foundation for a lifetime of research, get started on the best foot possible.

If you intend to start your own business (or improve one you already have) upon graduation, use the opportunity to research something pertinent to your situation. Whether it’s an aspect of your industry, trends of the future, or ways to improve employee productivity or cost efficiency, use this time wisely to create a better future for you and your business.