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CompetitiveEdge:A Guide to Business Programs 2013

Author : Peterson's

Publisher : Peterson's

Page : 1893 pages

File Size : 13,10 MB

Release : 2013-04-15

Category : Study Aids

ISBN : 0768937388

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Peterson's CompetitiveEdge: A Guide to Graduate Business Programs 2013 is a user-friendly guide to hundreds of graduate business programs in the United States, Canada, and abroad. Readers will find easy-to-read narrative descriptions that focus on the essential information that defines each business school or program, with photos offering a look at the faces of students, faculty, and important campus locales. Quick Facts offer indispensible data on costs and financial aid information, application deadlines, valuable contact information, and more. Also includes enlightening articles on today's MBA degree, admissions and application advice, new business programs, and more.



CompetitiveEdge: A Guide to Graduate Business Programs 2013

Author : Peterson's

Publisher : Peterson's

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 14,95 MB

Release : 2012-12-18

Category : Study Aids

ISBN : 9780768936261

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Whether still in college or part of the workforce, the decision to get a graduate business degree is often a difficult one to make. Peterson's CompetitiveEdge: A Guide to Graduate Business Programs has just what students and young professionals need to help them make this most important decision-and to find the program that best matches their needs. This user-friendly guide has info on hundreds of graduate business programs in the United States, Canada, and abroad-with expert advice on the admission process, resumes, application essays, and more! In-depth look at top U.S. business schools and programs, including up-to-date data on entrance requirements, costs and financial support, degrees offered, and faculty research Facts and figures on programs in accounting and finance, business administration and management, human resources, international business, marketing, sustainability management, and much more Expert admissions guidance from business school deans and professors Real-life advice from individuals who owe their career to their graduate business degree Valuable information on career options, hiring trends, and what a graduate business degree means in today's job market Sample GMAT exam with dozens of practice questions and answer explanations



CompetitiveEdge:A Guide to Business Programs 2013

Author : Peterson's

Publisher :

Page : 1892 pages

File Size : 18,86 MB

Release : 2013-04-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0768937388

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Book Description

Peterson's CompetitiveEdge: A Guide to Graduate Business Programs 2013 is a user-friendly guide to hundreds of graduate business programs in the United States, Canada, and abroad. Readers will find easy-to-read narrative descriptions that focus on the essential information that defines each business school or program, with photos offering a look at the faces of students, faculty, and important campus locales. Quick Facts offer indispensible data on costs and financial aid information, application deadlines, valuable contact information, and more. Also includes enlightening articles on today's MBA degree, admissions and application advice, new business programs, and more.



The End of Competitive Advantage

Author : Rita Gunther McGrath

Publisher : Harvard Business Press

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 32,31 MB

Release : 2013-05-14

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1422191419

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Are you at risk of being trapped in an uncompetitive business? Chances are the strategies that worked well for you even a few years ago no longer deliver the results you need. Dramatic changes in business have unearthed a major gap between traditional approaches to strategy and the way the real world works now. In short, strategy is stuck. Most leaders are using frameworks that were designed for a different era of business and based on a single dominant idea—that the purpose of strategy is to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Once the premise on which all strategies were built, this idea is increasingly irrelevant. Now, Columbia Business School professor and globally recognized strategy expert Rita Gunther McGrath argues that it’s time to go beyond the very concept of sustainable competitive advantage. Instead, organizations need to forge a new path to winning: capturing opportunities fast, exploiting them decisively, and moving on even before they are exhausted. She shows how to do this with a new set of practices based on the notion of transient competitive advantage. This book serves as a new playbook for strategy, one based on updated assumptions about how the world works, and shows how some of the world’s most successful companies use this method to compete and win today. Filled with compelling examples from “growth outlier” firms such as Fujifilm, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Infosys, Yahoo! Japan, and Atmos Energy, The End of Competitive Advantage is your guide to renewed success and profitable growth in an economy increasingly defined by transient advantage.



A Practitioner's Guide to Business Analytics (PB)

Author : Randy Bartlett

Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 38,23 MB

Release : 2013-01-25

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0071807608

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Gain the competitive edge with the smart use of business analytics In today’s volatile business environment, the strategic use of business analytics is more important than ever. A Practitioners Guide to Business Analytics helps you get the organizational commitment you need to get business analytics up and running in your company. It provides solutions for meeting the strategic challenges of applying analytics, such as: Integrating analytics into decision making, corporate culture, and business strategy Leading and organizing analytics within the corporation Applying statistical qualifications, statistical diagnostics, and statistical review Providing effective building blocks to support analytics—statistical software, data collection, and data management Randy Bartlett, Ph.D., is Chief Statistical Officer of the consulting company Blue Sigma Analytics. He currently works with Infosys, where he has helped build their new Business Analytics practice.



A How-To Guide for Business School Practitioners

Author : Moira Tolan

Publisher : IAP

Page : 146 pages

File Size : 17,62 MB

Release : 2024-05-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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In recent years, the authors have watched as the struggles of independent colleges have multiplied. Faced with declining enrollments and numerous financial constraints, many schools struggle to stay solvent and relevant. Fiduciary concerns have been coupled with discussions surrounding whether business programs at these colleges are succeeding in preparing students for a modern workplace. In this book, the authors highlight some of the factors that business school practitioners, including faculty members and administrators, must pay careful attention to at this volatile time. The book also serves as a guide for parents and guidance counselors as they decide among multiple alternatives for students seeking higher education. The authors propose specific action-oriented remedies to the concerns, identifying ways that colleges might play a more significant role in preparing business leaders. This book will enhance a reader's ability to discriminate among business programs and academic institutions.



Beyond Performance

Author : Scott Keller

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 302 pages

File Size : 47,32 MB

Release : 2011-06-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1118097467

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The secret of achieving and sustaining organizational excellence revealed In an ever-changing world where only a third of excellent organizations stay that way over the long term, and where even fewer are able to implement successful change programs, leaders are in need of big ideas and new tools to thrive. In Beyond Performance, McKinsey & Company's Scott Keller and Colin Price give you everything you need to build an organization that can execute in the short run and has the vitality to prosper over the long term. Drawing on the most exhaustive research effort of its kind on organizational effectiveness and change management, Keller and Price put hard science behind their big idea: that the health of an organization is equally as important as its performance. In the book's foreword, management guru Gary Hamel refers to this notion as "a new manifesto for thinking about organizations." The authors illustrate why copying management best practices from other companies is more dangerous than helpful Clearly explains how to determine the mutually reinforcing combination of management practices that best fits your organization's context Provides practical tools to achieve superior levels of performance and health through a staged change process: aspire, assess, architect, act, and advance. Among these are new techniques for dealing with those aspects of human behavior that are seemingly irrational (and therefore confound even the smartest leaders), yet entirely predictable Ultimately, building a healthy organization is an intangible asset that competitors copy at their peril and that enables you to skillfully adapt to and shape your environment faster than others—giving you the ultimate competitive advantage.



Improving Business Performance

Author : Ramani S

Publisher : CRC Press

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 18,61 MB

Release : 2018-09-03

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1315362120

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No organization is impervious to change. Rather, the survival and growth of an organization is dependent on how well it copes with change. Successful change initiatives consist of the integrated eco-system of its portfolio, programs, and projects. These change initiatives become the delivery mechanisms for implementing the strategy of an organization. Improving Business Performance: A Project Portfolio Management Approach clarifies how the proper application of portfolio, program, and project management concepts can help commercial and non-profit organizations achieve their strategic objectives. Most organizations have been good at devising strategy, but falter during its implementation. Executing strategy well to deliver superior business performance remains a key challenge, which is addressed as the core theme of this book. The book portrays a top-down orientation as well as a bottom-up integration of change initiatives to facilitate alignment to strategy and accommodate mid-course changes. It takes into account existing global best management practices to bring forth an approach that is customizable and useful to organizations in any industry. Describing why portfolio management lies at the apex of change initiative management, the book explains how to design and fine-tune portfolios so they are in alignment with your organization’s overall strategy and business needs. After reading this book, you will understand: How to design the project portfolio structure for your organization How to integrate programs and projects within the portfolio more effectively How to better manage interactions across diverse change initiatives How to maintain focus while managing change to realize benefits The book presents a case study that illustrates the application of project portfolio concepts in practical scenarios. It includes chapters dedicated to transition management, change management, benefits management, and the Enterprise Project Management Office. It also includes templates you can immediately put to use in your own portfolios, programs, and projects.



Business Etiquette in Brief

Author : Ann Marie Sabath

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 27,40 MB

Release : 2013-09

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9781475985948

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Praise for Business Etiquette in Brief "Should be used as an office guideline for business executives . . . The tips in this book are essential to creating the image and building the type of respect that is treasured by any individual in the business world." --John Daw, Regional Director of Sales and Marketing Marriott Corporation "Provides a foundation for any career ... builds self-confidence and provides important information regarding one's conduct in a business environment." --Richard E. Putt, Director, National Accounts MCI Telecommunications Corporation "Excellent Salespeople - and everyone else in business - can benefit from this book." --Bob Persichetti, General Manager Cargill Inc./Salt Division "Practical, useful, and helpful." --Mary Kay Uleman, Manager, Training and Development Bank One, Dayton, NA "Informative, user-friendly, and extremely comprehensive. I would particularly recommend this to new graduates as they seek entry into the job market." --Sherree Wilson-Bradley Assistant Director of Career and Employment Services Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis



Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors

Author : John Mackey

Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press

Page : 368 pages

File Size : 34,14 MB

Release : 2014-01-07

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1625271751

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The bestselling book, now with a new preface by the authors At once a bold defense and reimagining of capitalism and a blueprint for a new system for doing business, Conscious Capitalism is for anyone hoping to build a more cooperative, humane, and positive future. Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue that both business and capitalism are inherently good, and they use some of today’s best-known and most successful companies to illustrate their point. From Southwest Airlines, UPS, and Tata to Costco, Panera, Google, the Container Store, and Amazon, today’s organizations are creating value for all stakeholders—including customers, employees, suppliers, investors, society, and the environment. Read this book and you’ll better understand how four specific tenets—higher purpose, stakeholder integration, conscious leadership, and conscious culture and management—can help build strong businesses, move capitalism closer to its highest potential, and foster a more positive environment for all of us.