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The Ten-Day MBA 3rd Ed.by Steven A. Silbiger
HarperCollins US 2009; US$ 12.99Now 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, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and the University of Virginia. Silbiger's research comes straight from the notes of real MBA students attending these top programs today. You will learn how to: Read and understand financial statements Develop effective and comprehensive marketing... more...
Great Applications for Business School, Second Editionby Paul Bodine
McGraw-Hill 2010; US$ 13.00Get into the elite professional school of your dreams with a college application that will capture the attention of admission boards! Business school essays and admissions interviews are perhaps the most challenging parts of being an MBA candidate. With competition to the nation's top business schools being so fierce, you must stand out. Great Applications for Business School helps you play up strengths and talents to distinguish yourself from the rest of the competition. Features: The 8 most common admissions essay topics--and how to answer them 22 actual essays by successful applicants to top schools Self-marketing strategies to highlight your talents Candid insights from admissions officers at top-ranked business... more...
The Student Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)by James M. Kouzes; Barry Z. Posner
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005; US$ 25.00THE STUDENT LEADERSHIP PRACTICES INVENTORY (Student LPI) is the only leadership tool designed specifically for students and young people. Developed by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, the second edition of this celebrated instrument package approaches leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors. This 360° leadership assessment tool helps students and young people measure their leadership competencies, while guiding them through the process of applying Kouzes and Posner’s acclaimed Five Practices of Exemplary Student Leadership® model to real-life challenges. more...
Business School Essays that Made a Difference, 4th Editionby Princeton Review
Random House Information Group 2010; US$ 11.99ABOUT THIS BOOK... Most top business schools require multiple essays, and this book is your best bet for acing them all. Business School Essays That Made a Difference, 4th Edition , contains actual student essays that tipped the balance between admission and denial, as well as interviews with admissions pros and with students who've been through the process and made it to business school. Business School Essays That Made a Difference, 4th Edition includes essays submitted to the following schools: Babson College, Olin Graduate School of Business Case Western Reserve University, Weatherhead School of Management Claremont Graduate University, The Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management Dartmouth, Tuck... more...
The Personal MBAby Josh Kaufman
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 19.99A world-class business education in a single volume. Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even the elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by skipping B-school altogether. Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. Now, he shares the essentials of entrepreneurship,... more...
65 Successful Harvard Business School Application Essays, Second Editionby Lauren Sullivan; The Harbus
St. Martin's Press 2009; US$ 9.99YOUR LIFE . . . IN 300 WORDS OR LESS It’s a daunting task. Even the most seasoned professionals find business school application essays to be among the hardest pieces they ever write. With a diverse pool of talented people applying to the nation’s top schools from the most successful companies and prestigious undergraduate programs in the world, a simple biography detailing accomplishments and goals isn’t enough. Applicants need clear and compelling arguments that grab admissions officers and absolutely refuse to let go. To help them write the essays that get them accepted into Harvard or any of the country’s other top programs, the staff of The Harbus ---HBS’s student newspaper---have updated and revised... more...
How to Write a Winning College Application Essay, Revised 4th Editionby Michael James Mason
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 11.99Get into the College of Your Dreams An original and creative essay is one of the keys to getting into the college you've always dreamed of, as well as to getting the financial aid you deserve. This book gives you everything you need to make your own unique talents shine in your college application essay. Even if writing is not your strong point, author Michael James Mason shows you: ·Exactly what admissions officers look for ·What works—and what doesn't, using actual student essays ·Proven techniques for writing your best essay ·Special tips for SAT and scholarship essays ·A last-minute checklist before you submit your essay ·And much more! "Well written, very useful, and highly recommended."... more...
Understanding Learning at Workby David Boud; John Garrick
Routledge 1999; US$ 60.95This volume brings together leading experts from the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to critically evaluate the current debate on workplace learning, and to propose directions for future developments in both research and practise. more...
Gravy Trainingby Stuart Crainer; Des Dearlove
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1998; US$ 9.25This is a study of the way in which business schools have emerged from the backwater of academia that they inhabited 20 years ago, into the glamorous global industry position they occupy today. The book is based on interviews with those who run, use, work for and despise business schools. more...
Learning By Heartby Roland S. Barth
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 21.95A decade after publication of his best-selling book, Barth returns to the schoolhouse. Drawing from a career committed to building schools rich in community, learning, and leadership, he shows how to accomplish the most difficult task of school reform-transforming a school's culture so that it will be hospitable to human learning. In an engaging conversational style, he suggests how school people can become the architects, engineers, and designers of their own schools-and of their own destinies. more...