The Mba Guidebook

This book describes the essentials of the core topics covered in a top-tier MBA program. The intent is to give the user a broad understanding of the key concepts needed to run a business - in one comprehensive volume. Topics covered include sales and marketing, operations management, product development, risk management, business valuation, capital structure analysis, and the interpretation of financial statements.

The MBA Handbook is a solid support guide for students studying for their MBA, providing advice about the whole MBA process, including choosing a course and examining post-MBA job opportunities. It can be used either to support a specific study skills unit on the course or as student reference and support beyond the classroom - it therefore has a lot of value for distance-learning students.

Practice management continues to be an area of growing importance, especially in the light of the increasing visibility of managed care with respect to private practice. The business aspects of medicine have acquired even greater significance. Establishing a mission for your practice allows you to convey who you are, what you want to be, and how you want to get there. Allowing a practice to be 'focused' is an investment that will pay big dividends. The question is: How does a physician establish competitive advantage? Practical, comprehensive, and reliable, MBA Handbook for Healthcare Professionals tells you everything you need to know about the effective business management of a modern medical practice. The book includes marketing, streamlining overhead, developing a competitive advantage, understanding corporate finance, contract negotiating, employment law, and every other essential element of a successful medical practice. Exploring basic business principles as they apply to a medical practice, the book covers leadership and motivation, applied law, the business plan, strategic management, the theory of constraints, office management, operating strategies from a CPA's perspective, customer service, computers and the Internet, and the all-important business of coding documentation and compliance. As a physician, you went to school to learn how to heal people. You probably planned on having a practice of your own. However, the reality of that practice often turns out to be more than just seeing patients. You must run the office, produce and stay within a budget, order supplies, market your services, and handle everything running a business entails. You need an MBA in business along with your medical degree. MBA Handbook for Healthcare Professionals gives you all that and more.

If you want to accelerate your career development and transform your skillset, but without the price tag and two-year commitment of the MBA, this is the book for you. The 30 Day MBA covers the 12 core disciplines of business: accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behaviour, business history, business law, economics, entrepreneurship, ethics and social responsibility, operations management, research and analysis and strategy. It provides the tools and techniques you need to seize business opportunities and implement strategies successfully. Complex concepts are explained in simple and practical terms, helping you to apply high level concepts to the real-life world of business. The 30 Day MBA also contains insightful case studies from leading organizations including IKEA, Cisco, Cobra Beer, Heinz, Shell, Hotel Chocolat and Chilango, to help keep you right up-to-the-minute with current trends and inspire you to explore new concepts. This book equips you with essential hard knowledge, but also helps you understand how business and current thinking is shifting in today's turbulent global markets, and broadens your mind with the knowledge and confidence to excel in a competitive career.

The MBA Handbook enables readers to: choose the programme and mode of study best suited to their needs, improve their time management skills and free the time needed for study, develop skills in rapid reading, notetaking, case study analysis, group discussion and oral presentation skills, integrate MBA study into career development and progression. accessible guide to the where and how of MBA studies and maintains the successful formula of the first edition. It gives much needed guidance on choosing, preparing for and surviving an MBA course, with advice on the necessary study skills including analytical report writing, project management and examinations technique. stage of reviewing their reasons for taking an MBA through to taking positive career development steps after gaining the qualification. In guiding readers through the pitfalls they will undoubtedly face, this handbook will be invaluable in helping them to pass their MBA and develop their managerial skills in the process. handbook will also be highly relevant to management students and others for whom a project or dissertation forms a large component of the course. The interactive nature of the material presented in the text is particularly useful for students taking part-time or distance learning programmes. In addition, managers who are not sure that they want a qualification will still benefit greatly from the advice on developing the many skills relevant to their job performance and career propsects. learning courses. Managers keen to develop the skills relevant to enhanced job performance and career prospects, as well as those interested in embarking on a course of management study.