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The 30 Day MBA: Learn the Essential Top Business School Concepts, Skills and Language Whilst Keeping Your Job and Your Cash

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If your want to find out what goes on in Business Schools beyond Harvard and Wharton, then this is the book for you, though they are covered too. IMD, in Lausanne, CEIBS (China Europe International Business School), INSEAD in France, IESE in Spain, LBS (London Business School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Antai College of Economics & Management (ACEM)are amongst the world's best B Schools whose syllabi are tapped into to compile this book. Case examples are drawn from global businesses such as Unilver, Societé Générale, and Tata Motors as well as established US firms including Facebook, Google and Dell.
For anyone who wants to know a bit more about what goes on in business schools that lie beyond the US coastline, as well as a what goes on within, this is an excellent primer.

Now in a completely updated and expanded second edition, Colin Barrow's "The 30 Day MBA: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success" is a 312-page instruction manual based upon twelve fundamental disciplines that provide the foundation for modern MBA programs. The focus is upon identifying and explaining key tools and concepts for assessing business situations and decisions. Enhanced with references for online resources, "The 30 Day MBA: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success" will enable the reader to create their own personalized 'Management Information Resource Centre' for accessing business information on markets and competitors, as well as pertinent research data and informative case studies. It will also help prepare the reader for MBA exams. Of special note is the chapter on 'Ethics and Social Responsibility'. Superbly organized and presented, "The 30 Day MBA: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success" fully lives up to the promise of its title and is strongly recommended for personal, professional, academic, and community library Business Studies instructional reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

The author did a good job providing a lot of information in a small space. The only drawback I found is most of the examples use the British Pound rather than the dollar. Being unfamilair with how many Shillings per Pound, etc, it was a little cumbersome to read. However, the divisions of disciplines and well written overview of each subject make this a great reference book.

You will not learn anything. What did you really expect from a book that tells you, you can learn MBA skills in 30 days within 270 pages? I bought into the title.
The book is basically a syllabus. If you want a table of contents of what MBA students learn, without learning anything then buy this book.

Even If you are just curious, what I suggest is to look online at a good college's MBA syllabus, find out what text books are required, rent those text books or reference Wikepedia on the subject and you will learn more from that than from this book.

Every single case study and website mentioned is British. This means the book mentions companies I have never heard of and fails to give background information on the company = missing valuable information.

The verbiage is entirely British, so the terms used in American Business schools are wholly absent in this book.