MBA in a Book: Mastering Business with Attitude Paperback – September 30, 2008

The best tool and companion to have all the time especially when on journey

Perhaps the greatest business book I own!

My daughter is co-owner of a small computer company. She has a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, but she never went to business school.I sent her MBA in a Book and she says it is wonderfully helpful. From her response, I think she would rate it at least four stars.

Great book!

Filled with Case Studies & Strategies that are helpful for any Entrepreneur looking to educate themselves on the inner-workings of business.

MBA In A Box is a collection of essays written by business experts. The concepts and terminology frequently assume you are already reasonably familiar with business concepts.For example, one of my favorite essays in the book is a republication of a Harvard Business School article (mid 90's) on the failure of Strategic Planning as it has been taught to generations of business school grads (especially MBAs). Terrific article, but it would really help to already be exposed to Strategic Planning (flawed as it is). This article helps with MBA background more than some of the others, but is still a critique of an MBA topic as opposed to a introduction.Since I got the book wanting a survey of MBA knowledge, I have some disappointment with it. I definitely learned from it, but having a controversial genius like Milken do the chapter on Capitilizing a Corporation was over my head in several places. The Finance and Accounting chapter was more of what I expected, as it described the traditional role and current firestorm around the role of the CPA - educational and up to date.If you are a seasoned business person, the book may be interesting to you as a light collection of essays from illuminated business minds. I am not quite that far along, but I gained from reading the book and may read it again one day. I've deducted from the rating of these quality essays because the title is so misleading - an obvious ploy to grab attention irrespective of the content. The ploy worked on me and I'm a little better for it, but it is still a cheap ploy.For MBA beginners-surveyors like me I recommend The Complete Idiot's Guide to MBA Basics. It's a very basic, yet useful, intro.

This quite possibly is one of the worst books I've ever read. Our company tried to read/study this together and we only made it 1/2 way through because of the poorly written and completely unapplicable content. I generally don't write bad reviews of products, but this is one I had to tell people about.

After reading 100+ pages, my knowledge of MBA programs and MBA practices has not increased at all. This is a random collection of essays with little practical use. This is not a "How-To" book or a "Cookbook" by any means. This book is very light on practical advice, and I doubt that it would help anyone learn about MBAs. Although it was written by people who have MBAs, their writing has almost nothing to do with getting an MBA yourself.I was pretty disappointed with the quality of writing. There are better MBA books out there.