The Portable MBA

By tapping the best and brightest in the country's top business programs, The Portable MBA gives you "MBA literacy" without having to go through the time and expense of a formal program. It covers all of the core topics taught in the first year of a top MBA course, including finance and accounting, strategy, marketing, managerial economics, and managing people.

From an all-star team that includes…

• Leonard Schlesinger, Harvard Business School
• Allan Cohen, Babson College
• Mary Anne Devanna, Columbia University
• James Walter, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Robert Davis, Stanford University
• N. Venkatraman, Sloan School, MIT

1. How to Think Like a Manager: The Art of Managing for the Long Run
   Leonard A. Schlesinger
• Part One: The Foundations of Management
2. Managing People: The R factor
   Allan R. Cohen
3. Quantitative Tools: Numbers as the Fundamental Language of Business
   Brian Forst
4. Managerial Economics: Guidelines for Choices and Decisions
   Frank Lichtenberg
• Part Two: The Functions of a Business
5. Accounting and Management Decision Making
   John Leslie Livingstone
6. Financial Management: Optimizing the Value of the Firm
   James E. Walter
7. Marketing Management: Becoming a Market-Driven Company
   Robert T. Davis
8. Human Resource Management: Competitive Advantage Through People
   Mary Anne Devanna
9. The Strategic Use of Information Technology
   N. Venkatraman with Akbhar Zaheer
10. Operations Management: Productivity and Quality Performance
    Linda G. Sprague
11. Strategic Management
    Richard G. Hamermesh
• Conclusion
12. The Role of Business in a Democratic Society
    Russell L. Ackoff

My second management book. I still can't read it.