The Management Game - Hardcover

Schlesinger, Leonard A.; Burst, Ardis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670812250 ISBN 13: 9780670812257

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1987

Synopsis

A participatory book that puts the reader in charge at a major corporation tests managerial skills, decision-making, product initiation, problem solving, and more and offers an in-depth analysis of chosen solutions and a gauge for calculating managerial aptitude

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

As a means of teaching and testing management skills, Harvard Business School teachers Burst and Schlesinger here fictionalize a year in the life of a division president for a giant food conglomerate as he faces a series of problems. Each chapter presents a different challengechoosing the right advertising campaign, appraising the human factor at a small-town subsidiary that may have to be closed, selecting a submanager via modern (i.e., polygraph) screening methods, reacting to "creative" bookkeeping suggested from above and so forthwith various options offered in each case to which the reader is invited to respond. At the close is an analysis of each option's results in terms of the reader's skills, as well as the division's corporate profitability and the division president's own future prospects. A novel and intriguing study that makes a game of learning about business management.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0670812250
• ISBN 13: 9780670812257
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1