The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-By-step Guide To Mastering The Skills Taught In America's Top Business Schools

From Publishers Weekly
Can MBA programs be compressed, allowing a reader to "get at least $20,000 of MBA education at 99 percent of the list price," as the author promises? Silbiger, a Philadelphia marketing manager, claims that "one can grasp the fundamentals of an MBA without losing two years of wages." Unfortunately, the constraints of his questionable methodology of "if this is Wednesday, it must be organizational behavior" result in some topics being scanted. While Silbiger's coverage of marketing, economics and strategy is cogent, his treatments of accounting, quantitative analysis and finance are pallid. Business law and labor relations are ignored altogether; Silbiger's thoughts on ethics, negotiating and international business are superficial. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
Silbiger, who is both an MBA and a CPA, aims to give the reader 40 percent of a two-year MBA program in ten days--a chapter per day. Whether or not one agrees with his premise, this book will prove to be a handy desk reference for potential and current MBAs, along with business people in general. Written in a clear and lively style, the ten chapters provide a basic framework for the essential business courses: marketing, ethics, accounting, organizational behavior, quantitative analysis, finance, operations, economics, and strategy. Each chapter outlines the topics to be covered and ends with "key takeaways"--the buzzwords and theories the text has described--defined in a line or two. A useful lexicon of abbreviations leads the reader back to the explanation of each concept. Recommended for public and academic libraries with business collections.- Mary Chatfield, Angelo State Univ. Lib., San Angelo, Tex.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Professor Robert Bruner, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia; author of The Portable MBA
"...has a terrific franchise, owing in no small part to Silbiger's gift for conveying complicated ideas straight-forwardly and appealingly."


Tom Fischgrund, author of The Insider's Guide to the Top Ten Business Schools, Harvard MBA, Senior Marketing Manager, Coca-Cola
"Anyone who has ever wished they attended a top ten MBA school now has an alternative: Silbiger's The Ten-Day MBA."


Book Description
This accessible, step-by-step guide to mastering the skills taught in America's top business schools has been a backlist perennial since publication. It dispenses MBA skills at one percent of the cost, in all the major topics taught at America's "top ten" business schools. MBA applicants and students use it to prepare for entrance interviews and tests; businesspeople, lawyers, and doctors use it to gain the MBA advantage without the time or the expense.This revised edition includes updated sales, salary, and company information throughout. It also discusses areas such as the Internet, game theory, activity-based accounting, and advances in information technology. For the 300,000 budding MBAs annually and for anyone else who wants to "walk the walk and talk the talk" of the MBA, this is the ultimate MBA book of knowledge.


About the Author
Steven Silbiger graduated in the top ten percent of his class at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. Prior to Darden he worked as a CPA for Arthur Andersen & Co. He has been a marketing strategy manager for National Media Corporation and now is Senior Director of Television Marketing at HCTV. He lives in Philadelphia.


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