Pre-MBA Readings
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”
- “A random walk down wall street”?
- Adam Smith and his theories on economics
- Karl Marx – “Capital”
- Movie: Start-up.com
- Guy Kawasaki’s book: “The Macintosh Way” (1989)
- to be continued
October 14, 2009 at 10:15 |
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October 19, 2009 at 09:09 |
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December 2, 2009 at 09:21 |
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December 24, 2009 at 12:15 |
It is great to have pre-MBA reading suggestions. Thanks. And congratulations on the blog.
I have a post suggestion for you: e-book readers.
Do you or anyone in your class has an e-book reader? What is your take on the subject? I was just thinking about it now… The MBA will surely require a lot of reading, and e-books are just easier to carry.
Do you think it is worthy? Is it manageable to study on those small screens?
December 24, 2009 at 12:22 |
hey aluizio,
i am glad you like the blog. concerning the e-book reader i can say that there are seveal people using them because there definitely are a lot of readings. however most of the readings you will also get as print out but in any case it is good have a reader for commuting!
greets from australia and merry christmas
tobias