TBS open teaching & learning resources
To help promote learning around the world, TBS Business School will be making a selection of its teaching and learning resources available at no cost. Our first release is a set of six new educational videos starring the comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix). For each video, a detailed teaching note is available to educators. We hope that you will find these videos useful as well as entertaining, and we welcome your comments and suggestions at otlr@tbs-education.fr.
Loan amortization
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Business School explains how loans are “amortized”, in other words, repaid. Understanding how loan amortization works is important not only to students of finance, but also to anyone who has borrowed money or plans to do so, whether for buying a house or a car, financing an education, or any other purpose.
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Short selling
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Business School discusses short selling. The emphasis is on the logic behind selling a stock short, as well as the mechanics of the short sale and its mathematical interpretation.
Incoterms
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Business School explains International Commercial Terms. Incoterms®, published by International Chamber of Commerce, is a way for traders to decide who pays for what when transferring goods across borders in a way that is legally clear and agreed internationally, and governs trillions of dollars in trade every year.
The iPhone 11 and the dark art of psychological pricin9
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Business School discusses the psychology behind the pricing of the iPhone 11. The topics include the iPhone X, the iPhone XR, psychological pricing, marketing and consumer behavior.
Introduction to using the normal distribution
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Business School introduces the viewer to how to use the normal distribution. The focus is on applying the 68 – 95 – 99.7 percent rule in order to obtain probabilities of events whose boundaries are 0, 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations away from the mean.
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Using normal distribution tables
Comedian Sammy Obeid (host of “100 Humans” on Netflix) in collaboration with TBS Business School explains how to use normal distribution tables in order to calculate the probability of any normally distributed event. This video is the sequel to “Introduction to using the normal distribution”.
