Pocket MBA

As business has become increasingly sophisticated with ever greater attention focused on management theory, more and more people have seen an MBA as the way to acquire the skills necessary for commercial success.

Pocket MBA is aimed at three main groups of people: those who are thinking of going to business school, those who have never had the time or opportunity to do so, and those who have an MBA but who want to bring themselves up-to-date on new ideas. It is a concise guide to management thinking and methods, and contains:

• Essays on management education, management literature and the MBA and the job market.
• An A-Z of key terms and concepts from Abilene paradox and Active learning, through Disintermediation and Dogs, to Value chain and Zipf's Law.
• Wide-ranging appendices including leading business schools, leading management consultants and recommended reading.

• Introduction
• Part 1: Essays
• Management education
• Management literature
• The MBA and the job market
• The MBA grows up
• Part 2: A-Z
• Part 3: Appendixes
1. Addresses
2. 20 major management consultants
3. Proportion of men to women in top positions at UK listed and USM companies
4. Recommended reading

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