An MBA program feature a core curriculum that focuses on the major business disciplines: finance, management, accounting, marketing, manufacturing, decision sciences, economics, and organizational behavior. Mandatory, core courses provide broad functional knowledge in one discipline.For example, a core marketing course covers pricing, segmentation, communications, product line planning, and implementation. Electives provide a narrow focus that deepens the area of study. For example, a marketing elective might be entirely devoted to pricing.
The functional areas of a real business are not parallel lines, and all departments of a business affect each other every day. Some schools allow first-years to take core courses side by side with electives. Others have come up with an entirely new way of covering the basics, integrating the core courses into one cross-functional learning experience, which may also include sessions on 1990's topics such as globalization and managing diversity.
Although you have a better experience and a very well design academic program, there is nothing you can’t find online that would learn at an MBA:
- TeamTechnology.co.uk is a website of Team Technology, online publishers of quality resources and articles on Leadership, Management, Teamwork and Business
- 12Manage.com is a free online encyclopedia of management methods is visited by ± 700.000 senior managers per month and is the most complete so far on the web.
- MBA Depot is an online community focused on - and marketed to - MBAs. But, most of the content found on the site is of great value to anyone who is interested in the education that an MBA represents.
- In 2001, a 60-strong team of KR04 students and Kellogg and Recanati Professors, created and published the Kellogg-Recanati MBA Handbook, a quality summary of all 27 course of the Kellogg-Recanati Executive MBA program. The Handbook was originally published in both print format and on the web, at http://www.kr04.net/.
- Networking Do's...and Don'ts. Ten tips for making an impression while keeping that recruiting cocktail party from turning into a disaster
- Now the business community is quite large online and you might want to have a click at the following web links to get the latest and the brightest business knowledge Brint, Entrepreneur Res. 1 , Forrester , Gartner Group , Harvard Business Online , INSEAD Knowledge , Management Forums , Management Logs , McKinsey Quarterly , Strategy+Business , Think Tanks or Wharton Knowledge
- Now if you don’t want to spend too much time at school, and too much money in a business education you can always have a QuickMba.com or NetMBA.com in few clicks.
Now if you style is much more, beach-towel-paper here is your short list
Books
Manage your self
- "Getting Things Done" by David Allen
- “Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
- “The Time Trap: The Classic Book on Time Management”, by Alec Mackenzie
- “Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership”Edited by Lin Coughlin, Ellen Wingard and Keith Hollihan
- "How To Win Friends and Influence People", by Dale Carnegie
- “You Are the Message” by Roger Ailes
- "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Fundamentals
- "What the CEO Wants You to Know", by Ram Charan
- "Profitable Growth Is Everyone’s Business", by Ram Charan
- “The ten-day MBA: a step-by-step guide to mastering the skills taught in America's top business schools” by Silbiger, Steven
- “The future of the global workplace”: An interview with the CEO of Manpower
- "Economics in One Lesson", by Henry Hazlitt
- "Seeing What’s Next", by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik A. Roth, Scott D. Anthony
- "Re-imagine!", by Tom Peters
- "Crucial Conversations", by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
- "The Essays of Warren Buffett", by Warren Buffett & Lawrence Cunningham
- "Poor Charlie’s Almanack", by Charlie Munger & Peter Kaufman
Management & Strategic
- "On Competition", by Michael Porter
- "Blue Ocean Strategy", by W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne
- "The Essential Drucker", by Peter Drucker
- "First, Break All the Rules", by Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman
- "The 80/20 Principle", by Richard Koch
- "Principles of Statistics", by M.G. Bulmer
- "The Little Book of Business Wisdom", by Peter Krass
- "Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management", by Bill Swanson
Operation, Project Management and Entrepreneur
- A list of great Books on Entrepreneurship
- "The Art of Project Management", by Scott Berkun
- "The Marketing Playbook", by John Zagula & Richard Tong
- "The Art of the Start", by Guy Kawasaki
- "The Bootstrapper’s Bible", by Seth Godin
- "The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement", by Eliyahu Goldratt & Jeff Cox
- "Lean Thinking", by James Womack & Daniel Jones
Finance and Accounting
- "36-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers", by Robert A. Cooke
- "Essentials of Accounting", by Robert Newton Anthony and Leslie K. Pearlman
- "How to Read a Financial Report", by John A. Tracy
Sale
- "The Little Red Book of Selling", by Jeffrey Gitomer
- "Influence", by Robert B. Cialdini
- "Getting To Yes", by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton