BUS 501 Management Thought & Application (MBA course 1): Books

Covers numerous topics in management theories and applications, such as aggregate planning, benchmarking, logistics, diversification strategy, non-traditional work arrangements, performance measurement, productivity measures, supply chain management, and much more.

Innovation : how breakthroughs happen -- Sustainability and the environment : a business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business -- Finance and accounting : "we're not in Kansas anymore" : getting real about numbers and what they mean -- Strategy : "when you find a fork in the road, take it" -- Managing is getting paid for other people's home runs -- Human resources : why brains trump brawn -- How to be a leader and live to tell about it -- Marketing : "find out what they want and how they want it and give it to 'em just that way" -- Communication : "a fool may talk but a wise man speaks" -- There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip : good ideas gone awry.

Traces the development of management thinking and major business culture in North America.