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The ten-day MBA

Name: The ten-day MBA
Author: Steven Silbiger
ISBN: 9780688123178

by Steven Silbiger

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Overview

Now 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 plans
Understand 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
Understand the language of business law
Master the most-used MBA jargon

At the rate of one easy-to-understand chapter a day, this classic business book enables readers to absorb the material, speak the language, and acquire the confidence and experience needed to succeed in the competitive global business world of the twenty-first century.

A step-by-step guide to mastering the skills taught in America's top business schools. By reading one easy-to-understand chapter a day, readers can absorb the material, speak the language, and most important, acquire the confidence and expertise needed to get ahead in today's competitive business world. Cartoons. Graphs.

About the Author, Steven Silbiger

Steven Silbiger, MBA, CPA, is a senior director of marketing at HCTV, Inc., with a gift for communicating sophisticated financial and business issues in the clearest manner possible. He is the author of the acclaimed Ten-Day MBA, with more than 200,000 copies sold. A graduate of the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia, Silbiger lives in Philadelphia with his family.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Can MBA programs be compressed, allowing a reader to ``get at least $20,000 of MBA education at 99 percent of the list price,'' as the author promises? Silbiger, a Philadelphia marketing manager, claims that ``one can grasp the fundamentals of an MBA without losing two years of wages.'' Unfortunately, the constraints of his questionable methodology of ``if this is Wednesday, it must be organizational behavior'' result in some topics being scanted. While Silbiger's coverage of marketing, economics and strategy is cogent, his treatments of accounting, quantitative analysis and finance are pallid. Business law and labor relations are ignored altogether; Silbiger's thoughts on ethics, negotiating and international business are superficial. (Nov.)

Library Journal

Silbiger, who is both an MBA and a CPA, aims to give the reader 40 percent of a two-year MBA program in ten days--a chapter per day. Whether or not one agrees with his premise, this book will prove to be a handy desk reference for potential and current MBAs, along with business people in general. Written in a clear and lively style, the ten chapters provide a basic framework for the essential business courses: marketing, ethics, accounting, organizational behavior, quantitative analysis, finance, operations, economics, and strategy. Each chapter outlines the topics to be covered and ends with ``key takeaways''--the buzzwords and theories the text has described--defined in a line or two. A useful lexicon of abbreviations leads the reader back to the explanation of each concept. Recommended for public and academic libraries with business collections.-- Mary Chatfield, Angelo State Univ. Lib., San Angelo, Tex.