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MBA In A Day: What You Would Learn At Top-Tier Business Schools (If You Only Had The Time!)

MBA In A Day: What You Would Learn At Top-Tier Business Schools (If You Only Had The Time!)

by Steven Stralser

The same critical information top business schools teach Based on Professor Stralser's popular seminar series, MBA in a Day? is specifically designed for the busy professional (physician, attorney, architect, nonprofit executive, etc.) or entrepreneur/small business owner, who needs to know about the "business-side" of their practice, organization or business. With comprehensive coverage of vital business... (more)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

The 10-day MBA

by Steve Silbiger

Now totally revised -- the 3rd edition of The Ten-Day MBA includes the latest topics taught at America's top business schools, including leadership, corporate ethics and compliance, financial planning, and real estate. This internationally acclaimed guide (more than 200,000 copies sold in the United States and around the world) distills the material of the most popular business-school courses taught at Harvard,... (more)

Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-Making

Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-Making

by Paul M. Collier

Accounting for Managers explains how accounting information is used by non-financial managers. The book emphasizes the interpretation, rather than the construction, of accounting information and encourages a critical, rather than unthinking acceptance, of the underlying assumptions behind accounting. It links theory with practical examples and case studies drawn from real life business situations in service,... (more)

Organizations

by John M. Ivancevich, James L. Gibson, James H. Donnelly

Managing people and their behavior in organizations is one of the most challenging tasks anyone could face. Gibson's Organizations: Behavior, Structure, Processes, Twelfth Edition, presents theories, research results, and applications that focus on managing organizational behavior in small, large, and global organizations. It is organized and presented in a sequence based on behavior, structure, and processes.... (more)

The consulting process in action

by Gordon L. Lippitt

A how-to guide for consultants Here is the accumulation of 35 years of work of two men who have helped shape the training and development field. Teachers, trainers, consultants, and continual learners themselves, the authors share their repertoire of concepts, strategies, and techniques. The function of consultants is part of the role and function of all those who lead, direct, teach, or interact as friAnds... (more)

Great Application Essays for Business School

Great Application Essays for Business School

by Paul Bodine

Expert guidance to help you write the essay that gets you accepted by the best business schools If you're applying to a business school these days, you need more than good grades, high GMAT scores, and an impressive resume. You need to write attention-grabbing essays that express your individuality, identify your goals, and play up your talents and strengths. Written by a renowned admissions... (more)

Kaplan GMAT 800, 2007-2008 Edition (Kaplan Gmat 800)

Kaplan GMAT 800, 2007-2008 Edition (Kaplan Gmat 800)

by Kaplan

"Kaplan GMAT 800 2006-2007" features: hundreds of the toughest practice questions with strategic answer explanations, plus tips and techniques for answering them quickly and accurately; powerful strategies for every question type on the GMAT; and focused approaches to the hardest math concepts on the GMAT.

International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior

International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior

by Nancy J. Adler

Unlike many other books in the field that simply compare managers working at home in their various cultures, International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior describes the approaches of successful managers in interacting with people from a wide range of cultures, including from Asia, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, and people from both North and South America.

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena)

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action (Arena)

by Donald A. Schon

A leading MIT social scientist and consultant examines five professions--engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning--to show how professionals really go about solving problems.

The Extracted MBA: A Topical Reference for the Contemporary MBA

The Extracted MBA: A Topical Reference for the Contemporary MBA

by Kelly Vinal

Business Research Methods

by Alan Bryman

The Second Edition of Business Research Methods provides essential guidance on the practice of business research and how to carry out a small-scale research project or dissertation for the first time. It offers an encyclopedic introduction to the core concepts, methods, and values involved in doing business research, from formulating research questions, reviewing the literature, and designing a questionnaire, to... (more)

MBA in a Box: Practical Ideas from the Best Brains in Business

MBA in a Box: Practical Ideas from the Best Brains in Business

by Joel Kurtzman, Victoria Griffith

The best minds in business—at your service MBA in a Box brings together some of the best brains in business who show how the core curriculum of an MBA program works in the real world. People like Michael Porter, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Adrian J. Slywotzky, Warren Bennis, and Bill George give you a box full of ideas and tools that can boost your career and help you add value to your organization. For example: •... (more)

Consulting Demons: Inside the Unscrupulous World of Global Corporate Consulting

Consulting Demons: Inside the Unscrupulous World of Global Corporate Consulting

by Lewis Pinault

In this gripping and colorful account of the American dream gone astray, Lewis Pinault provides the essential guidelines on how to get ahead and an enlightening perspective on the brutal infighting that can engulf even the most civilized consulting firm. This stunning exposé of some of the most prestigious and respected names in the business leads you into a world where a client's interests are skillfully... (more)

Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin

Dangerous Company: The Consulting Powerhouses and the Businesses They Save and Ruin

by James O'Shea

Behind nearly every corporate merger and every downsizing or "re-engineering" effort of the last decade lurked a highly paid management consultant. Consultants promise results, but what kind of practices do they employ to achieve them? Written by two award-winning journalists, Dangerous Company tells the harrowing tale of a Fortune 500 company that spent $75 million on consulting contracts, only to see sales... (more)

GMAT Testprep, 6th Edition, GMAT Victory Using The Cambridge Six-Step Approach

Text Includes: Business School Admissions Advice, Five complete Tests with Explanations, Expanded Basic Review, Powerful Test-Taking Strategies.

Economics for Managers

by Paul G. Farnham

For one semester MBA Managerial Economics courses. To be competitive in today's business environment, managers must understand how both Microeconomic and Macroeconomic forces must be considered when making business decisions. This is the only book that provides business students and MBA's with a thorough and applied understanding for both microeconomics and macroeconomics.

The Wall Street MBA: Your Personal Crash Course in Corporate Finance

The Wall Street MBA: Your Personal Crash Course in Corporate Finance

by Reuben Advani

A streetwise MBA that offers you a degree in success Whether you're a novice or an experienced professional, The Wall Street MBA explains the underpinnings of financial valuation, financial analysis, and corporate accounting and describes how each drives corporate America and Wall Street. Peppered with true stories and amusing anecdotes, this concise, easy-to-read, interactive resource teaches... (more)

The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting (Portable Mba Series)

The Portable MBA in Finance and Accounting (Portable Mba Series)

by John Leslie Livingstone, Theodore Grossman

The latest volume in the bestselling series In today's business environment, a knowledge of finance and skills in budgeting and financial planning are more important than ever before. Totally updated and revised, this highly anticipated Third Edition provides new information on five such key topics as interpreting financial statements; information technology in finance; planning capital expenditures;... (more)

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

by Richard M. Bookstaber

Inside markets, innovation, and risk Why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager to some of the leading firms on Wall Street–from Morgan Stanley to Salomon and Citigroup–and a member of some of the world’s largest hedge funds, from Moore Capital to Ziff Brothers and FrontPoint Partners, Rick Bookstaber has seen the ghost inside the machine and... (more)

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