The MBA Handbook (8^th Ed.) Academic and Professional Skills for Mastering Management

‭‘An absolutely vital resource for anyone doing an MBA. It will help you at every ‭stage: before, during and after your MBA.’

‭Alex Elferink, MBA Graduate, Cass Business School, City University ‭Praise for previous edition

‭‘The MBA Handbook appropriately introduces theoretical concepts and real-life ‭examples to underpin practice-based exercises and thinking.’

‭Jayne Mothersdale, Governor and Principal Lecturer, Learning & Teaching, ‭Leeds Beckett University

‭New edition of the definitive text for business students.

‭Undertaking any postgraduate management study is a big investment on many levels. The MBA ‭Handbook is the definitive text in this area and explains what will be expected from you on a ‭personal, professional and academic level. Designed to prepare and support you throughout  ‭your studies and your career, the book is clearly structured and simply written around the ‭following sections:

• ‭‭Understanding the MBA and postgraduate study – covering self-management, time-‭management and planning as well as common challenges and how to overcome them;
• ‭‭Transferable learning skills – covering professional development, diagrams, numbers and ‭data analysis, teamwork and leadership, and crucially, case studies and problem solving;
• Skills for assessment – covering preparation for the unique assessments that await in MBA and ‭PG study, including speaking and presentations, writing, exams, projects and theses;
• Afterwards – how to start and shape your career.‭‭
  ‭

This successful text has been thoroughly updated to include:

• New and updated activities, examples and exercises in every chapter to help evaluate your ‭progress and put ideas into practice.
• Mini-cases and real-life study and business examples integrated throughout the book.
• ‭‭Support for distance learning students and extended coverage of issues relating to EFL and  ‭ESL students.‭

Visit the companion website at www.pearsoned.co.uk/cameron for worksheets and self-assessment
‭exercises.

‭Sheila Cameron has worked for the Open University Business ‭School since its inception. She has been involved in its MBA ‭programme since its earliest design stages in a variety of roles, ‭including a period as MBA Director. Sheila is also the author of ‭The Business Students Handbook.

INTRODUCTION

1.    Management, Leadership, Learning - and the Handbook  

UNDERSTANDING THE MBA and post-graduate study

2.    The challenges of MBA and post-graduate study  

3.    Managing yourself -  and other stakeholders

4.    Planning and time management

TRANSFERABLE LEARNING SKILLS

5.    Managing your learning

6.    Professional development

7.    Critical use of literature and other sources

8.    Diagrams and other visuals

9.    Teamwork and leadership

10.  Case studies, complex problems and consultancy

11.  Seeing stories in numbers

SKILLS FOR ASSESSMENT

12.  Understanding your assessors

13.  Writing to impress

14.  Speaking to impress

15.  Examinations and other forms of assessment

16.  Projects, theses and dissertations

AFTERWARDS

17.  Managing your career

‭‘An absolutely vital resource for anyone doing an MBA. It will help you at every ‭stage: before, during and after your MBA.’

‭Alex Elferink, MBA Graduate, Cass Business School, City University ‭Praise for previous edition

‭‘The MBA Handbook appropriately introduces theoretical concepts and real-life ‭examples to underpin practice-based exercises and thinking.’

‭Jayne Mothersdale, Governor and Principal Lecturer, Learning & Teaching, ‭Leeds Beckett University

‭New edition of the definitive text for business students.

‭Undertaking any postgraduate management study is a big investment on many levels. The MBA ‭Handbook is the definitive text in this area and explains what will be expected from you on a ‭personal, professional and academic level. Designed to prepare and support you throughout  ‭your studies and your career, the book is clearly structured and simply written around the ‭following sections:

• ‭‭Understanding the MBA and postgraduate study – covering self-management, time-‭management and planning as well as common challenges and how to overcome them;
• ‭‭Transferable learning skills – covering professional development, diagrams, numbers and ‭data analysis, teamwork and leadership, and crucially, case studies and problem solving;
• Skills for assessment – covering preparation for the unique assessments that await in MBA and ‭PG study, including speaking and presentations, writing, exams, projects and theses;
• Afterwards – how to start and shape your career.‭‭
  ‭

This successful text has been thoroughly updated to include:

• New and updated activities, examples and exercises in every chapter to help evaluate your ‭progress and put ideas into practice.