Undergoing the MBA currently I realised that there are many concepts that keep appearing during the courses and classes. Especially people that do not have a Business Management and/or business education background should familiarise themselves with certain concepts and readings prior to an MBA. These readings are not compulsary but certainly help a lot for preparing and following for the education and are generally a good read as well. I will add this section as a separate page on the right as well and I will continuously add new readings as they come along:
- Agency theory
- Thomas Friedmann – The world is flat
- Statistics
- CSR – Milton Friedmann (1970): “The Social Responsibility of Business is to increase its profits”, New York Times, pp. 87-91.
- Operations – Steven Kerr (1995): “On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B”, Academy of Management Executive
- Strategy – Michael Porter’s “5 forces“
- to be continued
What else do you recommend?
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Tags: application, friedmann, porter, pre-mba, preparation, readings, recommendations
October 14, 2009 at 10:28 |
For those who are interested in Marketing a very interesting website is http://www.ipa.co.uk
This is the website of an organization that acknowledges, describes and analyzes many sucessfull communication and marketing campaign cases.
October 14, 2009 at 16:02 |
How about “A Random Walk Down Wall Street”? It covers most of the finance core.
October 14, 2009 at 16:24 |
Tobias,
Amazing post and very informative.
Here are some of books that i believe would help the students who are starting their MBA:
1. How to make friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie
2. The Art of Start by Guy Kawasaki (especially for budding entrepreneurs)
3. Snapshots from Hell by Peter Robinson (excellent read about a guy’s MBA experience)
4. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
5. Good to Great by Jim Collins
Happy reading!!
October 14, 2009 at 17:11 |
actually I would like to add as well “The art of war” by SunTzu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War
October 25, 2009 at 09:15 |
Do read the new Superfreakonomics by the same guys.
Also recommended is ‘The Goal’.