The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools - Softcover

Silbiger, Steven A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688137881 ISBN 13: 9780688137885

Publisher: Harper Business, 1999

Synopsis

This accessible, step-by-step guide to mastering the skills taught in America's top business schools has been a backlist perennial since publication. It dispenses MBA skills at one percent of the cost, in all the major topics taught at America's "top ten" business schools. MBA applicants and students use it to prepare for entrance interviews and tests; businesspeople, lawyers, and doctors use it to gain the MBA advantage without the time or the expense.

This revised edition includes updated sales, salary, and company information throughout. It also discusses areas such as the Internet, game theory, activity-based accounting, and advances in information technology. For the 300,000 budding MBAs annually and for anyone else who wants to "walk the walk and talk the talk" of the MBA, this is the ultimate MBA book of knowledge.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Steven Silbiger's international bestseller, The Ten-Day MBA, has already helped thousands master the skills taught at America's top-ten business schools—and at a fraction of the time and staggering cost that acquiring an MBA typically demands. This newly revised fourth edition contains the most up-to-date information available for understanding the intricacies of today's complex global business world. Distilling the material contained in most popular business courses presently offered at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and the University of Virginia—including leadership, corporate ethics and compliance, financial planning, real estate, and all the latest topics—this invaluable volume will teach you how to:

• Read and understand financial statements
• Draft and adopt effective and comprehensive marketing plans
• Comprehend accounting rules and methods
• Manage your relationship with your boss
• Develop corporate strategies
• Understand the present value concept
• Use quantitative techniques to evaluate projects
• Value stock, bond, and option investments
• Interpret the language of business law
• Master the most-used MBA jargon . . . and more

The information, the expertise, and the confidence you need for success are all in the pages of this remarkable book—at the rate of one easy-to-follow chapter per day.

About the Author

Steven Silbiger, MBA, CPA, is a senior director of marketing at Plymouth Direct with a gift for communicating sophisticated financial and business issues in the clearest manner possible. More than 400,000 copies of his acclaimed book The Ten-Day MBA have already been sold. A top-ten graduate of the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, Silbiger lives in Philadelphia with his family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Business
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0688137881
• ISBN 13: 9780688137885
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400