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The big picture MBA : what every business school graduate knows

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  • Author: Navarro, Peter
    Contributor: Masciana, Jon.
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2008
    Summary:

    In this course, University of California at Irvine business professor Peter Navarro gives listeners an overview of the MBA degree--one of the most valuable degrees available. The focus is on the major courses taught in the core curriculum at any one of the top fifty business schools in the United States.

    Contents:
    • An overview of the MBA curriculum: Looking at the forest before the trees
    • Statistics, decision analysis, and modeling: How the numbers help us manage
    • Strategic marketing: moving your products
    • Operations and supply chain management: Getting the stuff out the door
    • Financial accounting: "Doing the numbers" for investors, regulators, and other external users
    • Managerial accounting: "Doing the numbers" for internal decision making and control
    • Corporate finance: The ultimate money game
    • Organizational behavior: The Rodney Dangerfield of the B-school curriculum
    • Strategic human resource management: The awesome power of people
    • Management strategy: Outfoxing your rivals
    • Macroeconomics: Microeconomics for managers
    • So you want to get an MBA?: Some basics
    • Applying
    • and getting into
    • your business school of choice.
    Genre:
    Instructional and educational works
    Subject(s): Business education | Master of business administration degree
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781456127732