MBA's Guide to Microsoft Excel 2002

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Designed specifically as a reference for business professionals, this concise guide to Microsoft Excel 2002 begins with quick primers that move new users to proficiency in all Excel categories, including worksheet basics, working with databases, and creating charts. It describes in detail those features of Excel that are important to business users: statistical functions, financial functions, data sharing, PivotTables and PivotCharts, Solver, BackSolver, and Small Business Finance Manager. It also provides step-by-step plans for completing common Excel business projects such as building a sales forecast, creating a business plan, and performing capital budgeting analysis. The accompanying CD-ROM provides examples of Excel workbooks created through these projects as well as those discussed throughout the book.

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Disappointing.......2007-10-11

This book can be confusing, with insufficient examples, coming perilously close to techno-speak too often.

Disappointed in what is missing........2003-09-15

I was looking for a book that would explain linear programming (optimization modeling) and pivot tables - the book did an excellent job for those two tasks, so I bought it. My mistake was in assuming that the MBA moniker meant that it would cover most of the features for which MBA's use Excel. I was first disappointed when VLOOKUP (vertical lookup) and HLOOKUP (horizontal lookup) were not covered. Next, I was surprised that macros are not covered. The last straw was when I read that the only way to fix a circular reference in Excel is to remove it - FALSE. I'm no Excel guru but even I can use help and find out how to step through iterations manually to solve when a circular reference is necessary (e.g. pay out 10% of gross profits as long as net profits are greater than $1,000). Don't be fooled by the title.

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Engage students in object-based inquiry to encourage them to become more observant, inquisitive, and reflective!

Object-based inquiry is a tested method that enhances the skills of the student, as well as the instructor, by engaging students in hands-on studies of everyday objects, raising their curiosity and enthusiasm for the learning process. Hands-on instructional strategies foster active learning, allowing students to investigate essential questions, while at the same time meeting curriculum standards and creating a profoundly new learning experience. In this exciting new book, educators and authors Amy Edmonds Alvarado and Patricia R. Herr explore the concept of using everyday objects as a process initiated both by students and teachers, encouraging growth in student observation, inquisitiveness, and reflection in learning.

Essential focal points of this teaching resource include:

Concept and theory
Getting started and gathering collections of different objects
Lesson planning and student grouping
Formative and summative assessments
Sample lesson plans for language arts, science, social studies, and math

Inquiry-Based Learning Using Everyday Objects is a practical guide that will promote change in both teaching and thinking. It is a tool that all educators should add to their existing repertoire of teaching methods.

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useful background info and practical applications.......2004-05-12

This book is a very readable book on inquiry based teaching and learning. It is a good book for anyone interested in education... in schools, museums, or similar educational institutions. What I found useful is that the authors clearly understood the needs and concerns of classroom teachers, and were not interested in producing a purely academic textbook. They do a good job of talking about the value of using inquiry in the classroom, give practical examples, and offer a variety of lessons they have tested, that teachers can use directly, or use as models to design their own. It is an area of education that is seeing increasing interest by school administrations. I recommend this as a valuable introduction written by teachers who know their stuff!

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Everything's Negotiable How to Bargain Better to Get What You Want Second Edition
Bobby Covic
Manufacturer: Covic Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0971085501

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Truly helpful techniques

This stuff really works--anyone can learn it.

My Boss and My Wife are very pleased.

THE MOST USEFUL BOOK YOU WILL EVER OWN!!

THE MOST USEFUL BOOK YOU WILL EVERY OWN

Everything's Negotiable! How to Bargain Better to Get What You Want
Bobby Covic
Manufacturer: Pendulum Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 097108551X

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The shortcut to success the blueprint to better bargaining! Everythings Negotiable true (and funny) stories gently coach readers on how to win in everyday ways. Easy secrets are revealed about saving money faster than anyone could ever earn it. Wall Street Journal quoted Where humor...and psychology collide.

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Truly helpful techniques.......2004-03-28

I am planning to buy a new car soon and I hate being pressured by sales people. Bobby Covic's book was extremely helpful in formulating a strategy. It had an unexpected bonus in that it helped me get a better price on some furniture I was buying by using some of the techniques I read about. Buy this book. You will make the purchase price back the first time you apply the knowledge you will gain by reading it!

This stuff really works--anyone can learn it........2004-03-23

This isn't pie-in-the sky stuff. These ideas are easy and they work. I even used Covic's "negotiation coach" service (You pay him a portion of savings) to cut a hospital bill from $2,400 to less than $500.

Covic uses stories of actual negociations from hotel room shopping to automobile purchases. The most powerful tools are his polite, little phrases anyone can use to get a better price. For example, I used "How negociatable are you on the garage rent?" to move a landloard from $500 a month to $450. Once you get in the habit of negociating on small purchases, it's an easy jump to the big stuff like cars, mortgages, and home buying.

This book may seem too simple in places, but it works almost every time.
You'll start saving on every transaction, without any heavy handed, eye-to-eyeball stuff.

By the way, Covic is a tax professional who deals with the IRS representing customers who owe money to Uncle Sam.

My Boss and My Wife are very pleased........2004-03-09

Negotiations are not intuitive to everybody. And the salesmen know this. Everything's Negotiable gives you the tools to meet and beat the fast talker at his own game. So often we are rushed by sales people who tend to pass on a sense of urgency for which we are not prepared. Mr. Covic helps one turn the schedule in our favor. Bobby's writing style combines learning great buying techniques with a sense of humor. The stories are told simply and the results are financially profound.

I always thought that the salesmen knew something I did not. Now, I buy professionally from salesmen that I've forced to treat me as an equal. Saving money is a lifestyle. Everything's Negotiable shows us how to keep this notion in mind. I started making winning deals the first week after I set the book down. My Boss and My Wife are very pleased.

THE MOST USEFUL BOOK YOU WILL EVER OWN!!.......2004-03-02

I cannot praise this book enough! Bobby's tactics and tips for keeping a clear head through all kinds of everyday negotiation are invaluable, especially for someone who is naturally reserved or shy. Bobby really coaches the reader to gain the confidence and chutzpah to assert yourself and make a good deal. Not to mention, Bobby's easy-going language and personal anecdotes make this a well-rounded and thoroughly enjoyable read. If you want to succeed, buy this book to learn how!

THE MOST USEFUL BOOK YOU WILL EVERY OWN.......2004-03-02

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A Must Read for All Employees

A modern fable about quality.

Highly Recommended!

Excellent. The best introduction to quality available

A quick read that makes us re-think our Quality initiatives!

I Know It When I See It: A Modern Fable About Quality
John Guaspari
Manufacturer: Amacom Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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A Must Read for All Employees .......2006-01-01

This book was handed around my engineering team 15 years ago, and it sparked some great dialog which lead to real improvements in our work as a team. I've since left that organization, employed now at a small software company as their quality director. This time, I plan to be the one handing around the copies.

A modern fable about quality........2004-10-11

I read this book back in the 80s and it is still quite relevant today. It talks about a fictional company called Punctuation and how it lost market share to an up and coming company. The reason they lost market share was due to quality. How to reverse that trend is the nature of this story. Suffice to say many companies (and bosses) continue to fall into the same traps to regain their market share and profitablity.
This is a great and quick read about what quality should be. Since it is so brief and the language is so simple, most reading audiences can easily understand the topic and moral of the story. It would be a great book to hand out to production, service, and management personnel.

Highly Recommended!.......2001-04-04

John Guaspari's instructive and amusing fable about "Quality" has been a favorite in the business world since it was first published in 1985. As it points out what to do and what not to do in the pursuit of quality and market share, the book illustrates the ups and downs of Punctuation, Inc., the mythical company founded by the inventor of punctuation. This thought-provoking and entertaining little book takes only an hour or two to read, but the author intends for its message to stick with you for a lifetime. We [...] recommend this book to executives, managers, customer-service employees and those who run their own businesses.

Excellent. The best introduction to quality available.......1999-03-10

This is a realy good, short and entertaining introduction to quality management. It takes 20 minutes to read, but capures 20years of experience

A quick read that makes us re-think our Quality initiatives!.......1998-08-24

A great book that educates on many of the misadventures of quality-enhancement efforts. Fun to read.

I Know It When I See It a Modern Fable About Quality

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I Know It When I See It a Modern Fable About Quality
John Guaspari
Manufacturer: Amacom, 1985,
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000XA9NSC

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I Know It When I See It : A Modern Fable about Quality
John Guaspari
Manufacturer: amacom
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000HMLKCS

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I Know It When I See It: A Modern Fable About Quality
John Guaspari
Manufacturer: Amacom Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NWAJII

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Vast knowledge in very digestable form

A good book

Strategy Process: Collegiate Edition, The
Henry Mintzberg , James Brian Quinn , and John Voyer
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Paperback

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False Prophets: The Gurus Who Created Modern Management and Why Their Ideas Are Bad for Business Today

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Vast knowledge in very digestable form.......2000-08-16

As frightening as the volume of the book might see, it is written very well and it is very contemporary with the topics discussed in.
The book is divided in several sections with general theory and implications disussed first and with some real cases presented afterwards. Each case is usually backed with some questions to think about and to extract the essence of it. The complete book feels like being a student in the class with authors performing as teachers (as they also do sometimes).
Concepts of strategy are extremely tricky. It can hardly been negotiated if there is a strategy or if you just got to have the feeling or if there simply are people who earn 1 million US$+ a year that turn into gold everything they touch and you can't run a serious business without them. This book will help you understand that strategy exists, will teach you how to define it and set it through and how to predict the future and react on it. But as real life is, many things can happen. You get the driver's licence after you learn the basics of driving. But no one can tell after you get the licence if you will get involved into the crash and when.
Many people expect from such books that they will get a broad pavement covered with roses to walk through their careers on simply by paying some 70 US$. How naive they sound sometimes. The pen alone doesn't write a book, it is just an instrument to success, behind which stands an enormous human effort. This wonderful book is only an instrument to avoid some crashes of company in your career. If it can therefore win you a job or a mere 100 US$ raise, it has paid back heavily, don't you think?

A good book.......2000-03-31

This is an important and recent strategy book. I recommend it for MBA students and managers.

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In Property Rules, Robin L. Einhorn uses City Council records-previously thought destroyed-and census data to track the course of city government in Chicago, providing an important reinterpretation of the relationship between political and social structures in the nineteenth-century American city.

A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book"
"[A] masterful study of policy-making in Chicago."—Choice

"[A] major contribution to urban and political history. . . . [A]n excellent book."—Jeffrey S. Adler, American Historical Review

"[A]n enlightening trip. . . . Einhorn's foray helps make sense out of the transition from Jacksonian to Gilded Age politics on the local level. . . . [She] has staked out new ground that others would do well to explore."—Arnold R. Hirsch, American Journal of Legal History

"A well-documented and informative classic on urban politics."—Daniel W. Kwong, Law Books in Review

Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872

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Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872
Robin L. Einhorn
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OP66RC

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Contains thought-provoking, personal stories of hardship and endurance from five towns in America’s collapsing industrial heartland. It focuses on the complex relationships between work, loss, and identity. Includes 48 plates of black and white photographs.

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The rise and fall of the steel and mining industry.......2002-11-08

After The Smoke Clears: Struggling To Get By in Rustbelt America by Steve Mellon (a journalist and staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is an informed and moving chronicle of the rise and fall of the steel and mining industry in America. A tale of the communities surrounding the employment bounty of the steel mills, and the struggle to survive when the closure of this employment bounty left a void in people's ability to support themselves, After The Smoke Clears is a compelling and highly recommended saga of twentieth-century American history enhanced with black-and-white photography.

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Thoroughly updated, Aftermarketing offers a theory-based, yet pragmatic plan for building an effective customer retention program. The book unites the important fields of database development, customer satisfaction research, customer service and direct marketing, showing how to use them together to maximize their power in strengthening relationships with customers. Aftermarketing tells how to: construct a customer database, manage it and use it wisely; make customer satisfaction programs more responsive to customer retention; establish information dialogues with customers by actively answering their complaints and compliments; build formal communication programs dialoging with customers through magazines, newsletters, and correspondence. A relevant guide for managers (in large and small companies), retailers, educators and students, Aftermarketing is applicable to product and services, consumer and industrial markets, and both the profit and non-profit sectors.

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Book defines relationship marketing.......2000-02-02

My teacher in grad school used this book in our database marketing class and Mr. Vavra hits the nail on the head. If you own a business or work in a company chances are that reading this book will open your eyes - and the deficient marketing practices and priorities that you see will blow you away. This book is written without the stodgy business speak.

Enjoy

An excellent book for a marketer wanting to keep customers.......1997-03-09

This book is well written and a must read for a marketer or advertiser. Its focus is on what you must do to keep your customers AFTER you have them. Goes way beyond tired old books on customer service. I recommend it

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Organizations are shifting from hierarchical structures to more open networks of people cooperating to achieve interrelated goals. A major role of leadership in this context is to engage participants in the work of identifying, developing, and employing a foundation of values that are responsive and accountable to participants, stakeholders, and society. This calls for students and professionals to develop an understanding of the role of leadership across the organization. Leading Organizations provides a framework for examining and integrating issues pertaining to organizational leadership and helps prepare the student and professional for leading and participating in these new era organizations.

New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness (The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series)

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New Perspectives on Organizational Effectiveness (The Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series)
Paul S. Goodman
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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Binding: Hardcover

Complex Systems Leadership Theory: New Perspectives from Complexity Science on Social and Organizational Effectiveness

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Complex Systems Leadership Theory: New Perspectives from Complexity Science on Social and Organizational Effectiveness

Manufacturer: ISCE Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0979168864

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This book, written by leading experts in the field, is intended for thoughtful leaders, advisors, and academics who want to better understand cutting edge thinking and the latest research on leadership in the complex, highly interconnected organization of today. Unlike most books on the subject, it does not purport to provide simple answers to difficult questions. Rather, it seeks to provide new insights and tools that have only recently become apparent through advances in complexity science-like, for example, the intricate dynamics of emergent leadership as simulated through agent-based modeling (ABM). Complex Systems Leadership Theory is a powerful beginning to what promises to be a deeper, more thoughtful investigation of how and why organizations succeed and what leaders can do to make a difference.

Productivity in Organizations: New Perspectives from Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

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Productivity in Organizations: New Perspectives from Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Jossey Bass Business and Management Series)

Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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Binding: Hardcover

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Leading scholars and practitioners examine recent research on productivity, analyze case examples of innovative programs, and describe ways to improve productivity practices.

Capabilities and capital investment: New perspectives on capital budgeting (Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School)

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Capabilities and capital investment: New perspectives on capital budgeting (Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School)
Carliss Y Baldwin
Manufacturer: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
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The Group Life Insurance Handbook
Darlene K. Chandler
Manufacturer: National Underwriter Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NXYKY6

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The Group Life Insurance Handbook
Darlene K. Chandler
Manufacturer: Natl Underwriter Co
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