Your mission must be, to be educated on your own, so as to be prepared to become a leader for business and society. You must  prepare yourself on your own, to combine rigorous business skills with a broader appreciation for the economic, social, and political factors that shape the global environment. After your effort, you can have an MBA from any University, if you like, but here you want to become a leader who make a difference to his organization and to his community. The hallmark is the learning experience that you achieve by yourself.

Expect more from yourself and do more with your career. With this program you’ll develop lifelong connections and leadership skills to engage the world... and transform your career in ways that extend far beyond your return on investment.

My hope is that in pursuing your own MBA, you will take advantage of all you have read, and that you will take the intellectual excitement of your experience with you in all you do for the rest of your life.
 

Financial Accounting: Information for Decisions (1st Edition)
by Wild, John J.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN:0072479469 , Price: $89.11 ( 210 day subscription )
 

eTextbook Description: Wild's Financial Accounting incorporates a real world emphasis that focuses on both corporations and non-corporations (particularly on smaller, entrepreneurial businesses). This is the only textbook in the financial accounting market that focuses on the innovation and excitement of entrepreneurs and small businesses. Nearly all financial accounting texts focus exclusively on big corporations, which is not in step with many students' career paths or goals. Nor is it in step with the realities of today's business world. Financial Accounting also includes numerous pedagogical elements that motivate students and helps them learn to make business decisions. The pedagogical elements extend into a "Decision Center" to emphasize using accounting information in business decision-making. The text focuses early on business and technology, offering students and faculty a modern, dynamic and relevant presentation of accounting. There is also extensive coverage of real world corporate financial statements throughout the text.

     Includes Preface & CHAPTER 6 Merchandise Inventories and Cost of Sales

Book Web site: http://www.mhhe.com/decisioncenter

Operations Management For Competitive Advantage  (9th Edition)
by Chase, Richard B.; Aquilano, Nicholas J.; Jacobs, F. Robert
McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN:0072479299 , Price: $92.77 ( 210 day subscription )

eTextbook Description: Operations Management for Competitive Advantage provides students a study of the processes involved in managing and controlling a variety of business operations from high-tech manufacturing to high touch services with a balanced treatment of the manufacturing and service aspects. This text covers the latest and most important issues facing OM managers such as ERP, Supply Chain Management, E-Commerce, Process Analysis, and provides tools and techniques to effectively manage operations.

    Includes Preface & chapter four PROCESS ANALYSIS .

                         Text website at www.mhhe.com/chase

Organizational Behavior (7th Edition)
by Schermerhorn, John R. ; Osborn, Richard ; Hunt, James G
John Wiley & Sons Higher Education; ISBN:0471148008 , Price: $74.48 ( 180 day subscription )

Description: A solid understanding of organizational behavior is essential for anyone seeking career success in the 21^st century work environment. This 7^th edition of Schermerhorn's book was revised to reflect these realities of the new workplace. Fast OB is the theme of this edition- to help students prepare for the fast-paced world of opportunity present today. Ethics and social responsibility, workforce diversity, technology, entrepreneurship, the high performance organization, and skill-building are some of the topics emphasized. Schermerhorn's new edition is intended for the Organizational Behavior course taught at most 2-year and 4-year colleges.

The seventh edition is now updated with a leadership assessment package from Pfeffer/Jossey-Bass and the new CD-based Interactive Learning Edition of the book. Both the Pfeffer assessments and the ILE are packaged with the Update edition at no additional cost to students.

        Includes Preface & Chapter Organizational Behavior Today

                             Students can access an interactive version of the self-tests on    the Schermerhorn Web Site at www.wiley.com/college/schermerhorn.

Human Resource Management (8th Edition)
by Dessler, Gary
Prentice Hall; ISBN:0130654302 , Price: $78.80 ( 180 day subscription )
 

      Includes Preface & Chapter 4 PERSONNEL PLANNING AND RECRUITING

PHLIP Website (www.prenhall.com/dessler)—Developed by Professor Dan Cooper at Marist College, PHLIP provides academic support for faculty and student using this text. PHLIP is divided into a Student Page and a Faculty Page. The Faculty Page helps professors prepare lectures, integrate technology into the classroom, and enhance in- and out-of-class learning with industry examples as current as today's world news. The Student Page supports students through an Interactive Study Guide, Current Events Cases, Exercises, Study Skills, and Writing and Research Assistance.

The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets  (6th Edition)
by Mishkin, Frederic S.
Addison Wesley Higher Education Group; ISBN:0201771543 , Price: $95.76 ( 180 day subscription ).

 Description: The Sixth Edition of The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets represents the most extensive revision to date of this market leading textbook. Drawing from his service as Executive Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Mishkin provides fresh, thoroughly updated coverage of and many new insights into the monetary policy process, the operation of the Federal Reserve, the regulation and supervision of the financial system, and the internationalization of financial markets. He provides an applications-oriented perspective with numerous applications and special topic boxes that increase students' interest by showing them how to apply theory to the real world. In addition, Mishkin provides a careful, step-by-step development of models, an approach found in the best principles of economic textbooks, that makes it easier for students to learn. Over 400 end-of-chapter problems aid in reinforcing the essential chapter content.

    Includes Preface & CHAPTER 4 UNDERSTANDING INTEREST RATES

Marketing Management (Millennium Edition)
by Kotler, Philip
Prentice Hall; ISBN:013065437x , Price: $82.29 ( 180 day subscription )

   Includes Preface & CHAPTER 4 Gathering Information and Measuring    Market Demand

Visit the companion Web site for Marketing Management at:

Also visit  www.prenhall.com/phlip

When the first edition of Marketing Management was written in 1967, marketing was a far simpler subject. Consumer marketing largely operated on mass marketing principles, and business marketing primarily concerned itself with how to build the best sales force. The retail landscape was populated with major department stores, regional supermarket food chains, and a very large number of mom-and-pop stores. Most marketing thinking focused on making the sale.

In those days, marketers faced a number of tough decisions. They had to determine product features and quality, establish accompanying services, set the price, determine the distribution channels, decide how much to spend on marketing, and decide how to divide their resources among advertising, sales force, and other promotion tools.

Today's marketers, of course, face the same tough decisions. But today's marketplace is enormously more complex. Domestic markets, at one time safe from foreign invaders, are now the happy hunting grounds of giant global corporations as well as global niche specialists. Major strides in technology have considerably shortened time and distance: New products are launched at an astonishing pace and are available worldwide in a short time. Communications media are proliferating. New distribution channels and formats keep appearing. Competitors are everywhere—and hungry.

In the midst of these changes, busy consumers are changing their ways. To save time, they are shopping with catalogs, the telephone, and the computer. Today consumers can search the Internet to find the best price for a car. They can handle most of their banking needs over the phone or by computer. They can buy insurance and carry out financial transactions without working with an agent or broker. Consumers don't even need to visit the supermarket: Using Peapod, Streamline, or Netgrocer, they can place orders over the Internet and have the groceries delivered to their homes. Nor do they need to buy a newspaper to get their news; in fact, they can get a customized version of the Wall Street Journal every morning...........

Management Accounting: Analysis and Interpretation  (2nd Edition)
by McWatters, Cheryl S.; Morse, Dale; Zimmerman, Jerold L.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN:0072479272 , Price: $90.44 ( 210 day subscription )

Description: Management Accounting, Second Edition, is written for the future user of accounting information. While the preparation of accounting information is an important skill, this text focuses on the analysis of the information generated by the accounting system for both planning and control decisions. For this reason, business majors and current and future managers will benefit greatly from the material presented. Accounting majors will also gain a better understanding of how accounting information is used for effective planning and control within all types of organizations. Management Accounting, Second Edition, has a strong conceptual framework that focuses on using accounting information to make decisions that are reinforced through the use of numerical examples. Most textbooks cover concepts in isolation providing only half of the picture; McWatters, Morse, and Zimmerman give students the "big picture" of real-world accounting by incorporating decision-making in every chapter. The authors of this textbook firmly believe that students learn best when they can relate important concepts to the overall objective of management accounting: helping to achieve customer and organizational value through sound business decision-making.

      Includes Preface & Chapter Four  Managing Activities

Online Learning Center (www.mhhe.com/mmz)  or

Text Support Website

www.mhhe.com/business/accounting/mmz

Business Law and the Regulatory Environment: Concepts and Cases  (11th Edition)
by Mallor, Jane P.; Michael Phillips, L. Thomas Bowers, A. James Barnes, Arlen Langvardt
McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN:0072479132 , Price: $104.41 ( 390 day subscription )
 

Description: The 11th edition of Business Law and the Regulatory Environment: Concepts and Cases is designed to meet the needs of the two-term course. The first term is generally required of business majors and the second by accounting majors, as it prepares them to sit for the CPA exam. The cases in the 11th edition are excerpted and edited by the authors. However, the syntax is not altered, therefore retaining the language of the courts. This edition now includes a mix of actual AND hypothetical cases. Mallor is considered by the marketplace to be the most complete text available.

     Includes Preface & Chapter Four Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, and the Control and Governance of Corporations

The Online Learning Center

Analysis For Financial Management  (6th Edition)
by Higgins, Robert C.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN:0072479256 , Price: $56.19 ( 210 day subscription )

Description: Analysis for Financial Management has been written to present standard techniques and modern developments in a practical and intuitive manner. It is intended for non-financial managers and business students interested in the practice of financial management. The text places emphasis on the managerial applications of financial analysis.

    Includes Preface & CHAPTER 4 MANAGING GROWTH

Link to the book site at www.mhhe.com/higgins6e

Information Systems: Foundation of E-Business  (4th Edition)
by Alter, Steven
Prentice Hall; ISBN:0130093483 , Price: $78.80 ( 180 day subscription )

   Includes Preface & Chapter 4: Information and Databases

Now, like it or not, “e” stands for everything: e-banking, e-books, e-travel, e-training, e-entertainment, and even e-engineering.

The “e” in e-business will soon be irrelevant.

E-business is rapidly becoming a way of life. It's our perspective that the name for e-business in the year 2000 will simply be: business.

Information Systems, Foundation of E-Business, is the new name of this fourth edition of a book whose first three editions were called Information Systems, A Management Perspective. This edition retains its management flavor, but it also emphasizes and integrates the significant trends toward e-business and e-commerce that have become pervasive in the last few years.

Companion Website at  www.prenhall.com/alter.

Strategic Management: Concepts and Cases (12th Edition)
by Thompson, Arthur A.; Strickland, A. J.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN:0072479140 , Price: $91.11 ( 210 day subscription )

Description: Strategic Management by Thompson has always included the most recent research in strategy in a way that students can understand and apply to business cases and problems. In addition, Thompson offers more coverage of strategy implementation than most other texts, which many instructors think is critical if students are to understand the "how" and not just the "what" and "why". Thompson's coverage of Michael Porter's classic 5-forces model is clearer and more detailed than in other texts, according to reviewers. With this edition the market leader looks better than ever before, offering a new 4-color design, improved writing style, and two new chapters on global and e-commerce strategy. The Thompson and Strickland cases have always been another strong selling point. Over the years, this author team has developed a great network of case authors and is able to select from the cream of the crop. And, having taught the course themselves for many years, they are very experienced in selecting the types of cases that will spark student interest and generate lively classroom discussions. Many of the cases reflect high profile companies, products, and people that students will have heard of, know about from personal experience, or can easily identify with. The new case line-up features an exciting collection of dotcom/New Economy companies such as America Online, WingspanBank.com, drkoop.com, Intel, eBay, CDNow, Dell, and Competition in the Electronic Brokerage industry. Cases are further selected to highlight other critical types of business and trends, such as non-U.S. companies, globalization, cross-cultural situations, relatively small, entrepreneurial firms, non-profit organizations, and more.

       Includes Preface & chapter four  Evaluating Company Resources and Competitive Capabilities

Web site for the text (www.mhhe.com/thompson) or Here .

International Business: Environments and Operations  (9th Edition)
by Daniels, John D.; Radebaugh, Lee H.
Prentice Hall; ISBN:0130654523 , Price: $82.29 ( 180 day subscription

The authors also include new information on:

the Asian financial crisis • the economies of Russia and Eastern Europe • NAFTA • the debut and performance of the euro • China's transition to market economies • governmental incentives in where to locate production • the latest in regional integration • environmentally friendly technologies • how FDI is replacing foreign aid as a source of capital in emerging economies • protecting intellectual property rights • country-by-country best practices • global manufacturing and supply chain management • the use of cross-national teams • and much more!

    Includes Preface & CHAPTER 4 The Economic Environment

Web site that accompanies this text at www.prenhall.com/daniels.

Information Technology for Management: Transforming Business in the Digital Economy  (3rd Edition)
by Turban, Efraim; McLean, Ephraim R. ; Wetherbe, James C.
John Wiley & Sons Higher Education; ISBN:0471219118 , Price: $71.82 ( 180 day subscription )
 

Description:

This text is appropriate for Junior, Senior, or MBA courses in Management Information Systems, Information Systems, or Information Technology for Business majors. The text takes a managerial emphasis (vs. technology), which makes the text relevant and interesting to business students. It also offers a real-world orientation by including extensive, vivid examples, great "war stories," and cases to make concepts come alive and to highlight the importance of IT to all business students.

   Includes Preface & CHAPTER 1: Information Technology in the Digital Economy

Web site (www.wiley.com/college/turban).

Internet Business Models and Strategies: Text and Cases  (1st Edition)
by Afuah, Allan; Tucci, Christopher L.
McGraw-Hill Higher Education; ISBN:0072479213 , Price: $53.20 ( 210 day subscription )

Description: Despite the Internet's phenomenal impact on business and its reach across all sectors, no model has emerged for thoughtfully valuing companies' Internet efforts. In addition, strategies for effectively competing in this environment are just beginning to materialize. This book addresses both of these critical aspects of the Internet and offers business models and strategies for better understanding this important phenomenon. In the words of the authors, "The framework [presented here] allows users of the text to make more informed theory-based arguments as to how successful an Internet-based firm is likely to be, how much it might be worth, and the relative merits of formulating and implementing an Internet strategy for an established firm."

The book should be of particular interest to those who are interested in managing a business with an Internet component. It is designed for those who want to pursue ventures in e-commerce, manage such ventures, compete with such ventures, or interact with them. This includes individuals who plan to work for venture capital firms that must understand the viability of the business models they are financing, Internet start-ups, bricks-and-mortar firms that must adopt the Internet to fend off challengers or reinforce an existing competitive advantage, consulting firms that must undertake Internet-related assignments for clients, investment bankers who must value Internet businesses, and even those in government who must formulate policies that influence firm performance in the face of the Internet. Thus, students and managers alike will find this book useful. These potential users can refer to this book at different stages of their careers.

     Includes Preface & CHAPTER 4 Components of a Business Model

website, www.mhhe.com/afuahtucci or here.