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Harvard Business School Confidential: Secrets of Success
by Emily Chan

Published by John Wiley & Sons

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Harvard Business School is the iconic business school. An admission ticket to HBS is a hot commodity and an HBS degree is highly respected in the business world. This book, written by an HBS grad and seasoned businesswoman, tells you why. It is a distillation of the most valuable and pragmatic but yet easiest to learn concepts taught at HBS.

Table of Contents
Part One: Personal
Chapter One: How Money Works
Chapter Two: You Can Negotiate Anything
Chapter Three: Speak So People Will Listen
Chapter Four: It's Who You Know
Chapter Five: It Is Bigger Than You

Part Two: Operations
Chapter 6: Process Management
Chapter 7: Human Resources
Chapter 8: Marketing
Chapter 9: Sales
Chapter 10: Finance

Part Three: Strategy
Chapter 11: The Big Picture
Chapter 12: Filling in the Blanks
Chapter 13: "Plans are nothing. Planning is everything"
Chapter 14: The Classics
Chapter 15: Final words
Appendix
Index

pub date: 2009-08-31 | | 9780470822395