 | Consulting Demons: Inside the Unscrupulous World of Global Corporate Consulting by Lewis Pinault
Buy used from: $0.01 The inside scoup on International Management Consulting - read if you are into consulting.
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 | Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader by Frank Partnoy
Buy new: $10.31 / Used from: $3.24 How that 100K+ job on wall street is often really about repackaging risk and fleecing customers. Start your MBA with no delusions. Read if finance is your interest.
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 | On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors by Patrick J. Wright
Buy used from: $0.01 The inside view of how large companies work (or don't) and how to climb to the top. Read if you are interested in management.
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 | The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.29 Over rated but much discussed
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 | The Borderless World, rev ed: Power and Strategy in the Interlinked Economy by Kenichi Ohmae
Buy new: $13.30 / Used from: $3.50 Kenichi Ohmae is Mr. International - My degree covered most of what's here - but this is still a favorite.
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| The Minto Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing, Thinking, & Problem Solving by Barbara Minto
Buy used from: $188.80 Very good book that will help you organize and write your essays and presentations. Used for training Mckinsey consultants.
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 | Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $21.49 Introductory background to international economics
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 | Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $2.00 History of how human society is - how it is. The truly global view.
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 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter F. Drucker
Buy used from: $0.71 Create value and leave a legacy. This is a classic.
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 | The Essential Drucker: In One Volume the Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management by Peter F. Drucker
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $4.61 Either go for the collected works - or each volume individually
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 | The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
Buy used from: $0.94 Can't get enough drucker.
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 | The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.47 Exellent and enjoyable read
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 | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $8.53 Time management via projects. Read this after Covy's Seven Habits. Drucker - "The effective executive rapidly sees time is the only limited commodity"
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 | Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance by Michael E. Porter
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $13.00 The classic - why not read it all instead of some case that summarizes it. You can use information in this in many of your courses - mgmt, mrkting
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 | When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.64 The collapse of a global gambling house that didn't react when the markets changed. An enjoyable read
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 | India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.75 Entrepreneurship in India
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 | The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William R. Easterly
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $12.49 Nice overview of developmental economics
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 | All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty by P. J. O'Rourke
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Very entertaining. This one also makes a good audio book
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| Easy Chinese Tutor I (Mandarin) (CD-ROM) by Edward C. Chang
Buy new: $24.95 You will need a language. Mandarin or Spanish are fairly standard. I haven't used this CD - but it looks decent.
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 | Mr. China by Tim Clissold
Buy new: $12.58 / Used from: $1.88 How an investment manager lost $418 million in China
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 | Horse Sense: How to Pull Ahead on the Business Track (Plume) by Al Ries
Buy used from: $0.56 Get some "Horse Sense"
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 | Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports, Second Edition by Howard M. Schilit
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $10.95 Have an eye out for financial trickery. Nice book that makes you appreciate accounting.
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