The Class Notes Of An MBA Student

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Accounting

• Accounting - Miscellaneous Notes
• Accounting - Textbook Notes
• Accounting Modular Cheat Sheet [EXTERNAL FILE]

Article Summaries

• Acquisitions - Myths and Realities
• Agreement and Thinking Alike: Ingredients for poor decisions
• Balanced Scorecard
• Choosing Strategies for Change
• Concepts for the Management of Organizational Change
• Corporations, Culture, and Commitment: Motivation and Social Control in Organizations
• Essentials of Negotiation
• Fix the Process, Not the Problem
• Framework for Analyzing Work Groups
• Get Innovative or Get Dead
• How Small Companies Should Handle Advisers
• How to Treat Customers Right: Winning the Channels Challenge
• Introduction to Managerial Decision Making
• Linking the Balanced Scorecard to Strategy
• Maintaining Momentum in Mergers
• Manage Customers for Profits (Not Just Sales)
• Managing a Task Force
• Managing Cultural Diversity: Implications for Organizational Competitiveness
• Matrix Management: Contradictions and Insights
• National Culture and Management
• Note on Organization Structure
• Notes on Business in China
• On The Folly of Rewarding A, While Hoping for B
• Pricing: The Strategy and Process
• Problem Solving and Conflict Resolution in Groups
• Producing Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through the Effective Management of People
• Rewards Systems and the Role of Compensation
• Self-Fulfilling Stereotypes
• Special Group Management Techniques: Procedures and Examples
• Strategic Dissonance
• Strategic Issues in Distribution
• Strategic Sales Management: A Boardroom Issue
• The Abiline Paradox: The Management of Agreement
• Thriving Locally in the Global Economy
• Time - The Next Source of Competitive Advantage
• Total Quality and Human Resources Management: Lessons Learned from Baldridge Award-Winning Companies
• Total Quality Management & Employee Involvement: Are they compatible?
• Turn your industrial distributors into partners
• Whisteleblowing: Reaping the Benefits
• Why C.E.O.’s Succeed (and Why They Fail): Hunters and Gatherers in the Corporate Life
• Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work

Business Law

• Business Law Notes: Agency Law
• Business Law Notes: Business Organizations
• Business Law Notes: Constitutional Law
• Business Law Notes: Employment Law
• Business Law Notes: Environmental Law
• Business Law Notes: Intellectual Property Law

Career

• 11 Rules for a Successful Interview
• 50 Common Interview Questions
• A Guide to the On-Site Interview
• Action Words for Resumes
• Behavioral Interview Questions
• Coaching Strategies – Ways to battle your own Achilles’ heels
• Cover Letter Tips
• Don’t Hunt for a Job, Farm for It
• Expanding Your Resources Beyond Campus
• How to Impress Recruiters: Anatomy of an Interview
• Information to Have on Yourself & Employer During an Interview
• Interview Preparation
• Key Attributes Employers Look For When they Recruit
• Keys to a Good Presentation
• Networking
• Questions to Ask an Interviewer
• Questions to Ask in Interviews
• Self Marketing
• Seven Tips for Leaving the Perfect Voice-Mail
• What Companies Look For

Case Analysis Tools

• DuPont ROI Analysis
• Traditional Product Life Cycle

Case Work

• A Model for Case Analysis and Problem Solving
• Case Analysis Template [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Case Hints - Case Analysis Evaluation
• Case Hints - Marketing Management
• Case Hints - Some Guidelines for Case Analysis & Number Crunching
• Case Hints - Suggested Technique for Case Analysis
• Case Hints - The Case Method
• Case Hints - Why We Use the Case Method

Economics

• MacroEconomics Review
• MicroEconomics Review

Finance

• CAPM – Right or Wrong?
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 10: Adjusting For Uncertainty and Financing Effects In Capital Budgeting
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 11: Managing Total Risk With Derivative Securities
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 1: The Firm and Its Environment
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 2: Maximizing Stockholders’ Welfare
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 3: The Structure and Interpretation of Accounting Statements
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 4: Value and Risk:
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 5: Financial Risk: Theory and Estimation
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 6: Assessing Expected Rates of Return: Theory and Evidence
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 7: Bringing Together Risk and Expected Return
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 8: The Basics of Capital Budgeting
• Finance Textbook Notes - Chapter 9: Special Issues In Capital Budgeting Decisions

Formulae

• Finance Formulae

Information Technology

• IT Management Issues Overview

Leadership

• 12 Ways to Make Listeners Like Us
• Are you a good leader
• Dee Hock on Management
• Rules for Business & Life
• Win People to Your Way of Thinking

Learning Tools

• USC MBA-PM Math Review Files (.zip) [EXTERNAL FILE]

Management

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Marketing

• Introduction to Marketing [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Kotler Summary - Chapter 04
• Kotler Summary - Chapter 11
• Kotler Summary - Chapter 17
• Kotler Summary - Chapter 18
• Kotler Summary - Chapter 19
• Kotler Summary - Chapter 20
• Kotler Summary - Chapter 21
• Kotler Summary - Chapter 22
• Kotler Summary - Chapter 23
• Marketing Notes - Channels
• Marketing Notes - Consignment Selling
• Marketing Notes - Core Concepts
• Marketing Notes - Customer Intimacy
• Marketing Notes - Direct and Online Marketing
• Marketing Notes - Elasticity Analysis
• Marketing Notes - Integrated Mktg Comm
• Marketing Notes - Logistics Management and Marketing
• Marketing Notes - Managing Marketing Info
• Marketing Notes - Managing the Sales Force
• Marketing Notes - Pricing
• Marketing Notes - Quantitative Methods Review

Miscellaneous

• Lee Walker’s Seven Perspectives
• Powerful PowerPoint Presentations - Adding the company logo to your PowerPoint slides
• Powerful PowerPoint Presentations - Create custom design templates
• Powerful PowerPoint Presentations - Creating a series of click-activated instructions in PowerPoint
• Powerful PowerPoint Presentations - Creating PowerPoint presentations that reach out
• Powerful PowerPoint Presentations - Enhance your slide presentations by recording an audio background
• Powerful PowerPoint Presentations - Simple Animation
• Powerful PowerPoint Presentations - Take advantage of PowerPoint’s Notes feature
• Presentation Tips for Presenting Your Company, Services, etc.
• Seven Perspectives
• The Issue Lifecycle
• Twelve Presentation Tactics

Operations

• Operations Notes - Capacity and Demand
• Operations Notes - Inventory Management
• Operations Notes - Little’s Law
• Operations Notes - Managing Capacity
• Operations Notes - Mass Customization
• Operations Notes - Process
• Operations Notes - Project Management
• Operations Notes - Push/Pull
• Operations Notes - Quality
• Operations Notes - Re-Engineering
• Operations Notes - Service Factory
• Operations Notes - Service Quality
• Operations Notes - The Goal
• Operations Notes - Time-Based Competition
• Operations Notes - Waiting and Service Quality
• Process Note

Organizational Behavior

• Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
• OB Course Notes - Change Management
• OB Course Notes - Decision Making
• OB Course Notes - Employee Issues
• OB Course Notes - Groups
• OB Course Notes - Managing a Task Force
• OB Course Notes - Managing Cultural Diversity
• OB Course Notes - Mental Models
• OB Course Notes - Miscellaneous
• OB Course Notes - Motivation Theories
• OB Course Notes - Organizational Structure
• Organizational Behavior Class Notes Part I [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Organizational Behavior Class Notes Part II [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Ten Commandments for Implementing Change

Reference

• Basic Sources of Economic Statistics
• Research Reference Materials
• Various Historical Time-Series Economic and Market Data [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Weights and Measures

Spreadsheets

• Amortization Template [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Basic Option Pricing Models [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Big-picture Valuation Spreadsheets [EXTERNAL FILE]
• BizEd Between the Sheets [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Brealey & Myer’s IMC Guano Project [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Corporate Finance Spreadsheets [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Diversification and Risk [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Economic Value Added [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Estimating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Financial Statements Model [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Focused Valuation Spreadsheets [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Forecasting Financial Statements [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Free Cash Flow vs. Cash Flows to Shareholders [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Futures Spreadsheets [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Inflation and the Real Interest Rate [EXTERNAL FILE]
• International Capital Budgeting [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Lease or Buy? [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Multiples [EXTERNAL FILE]
• NPV and IRR Rules [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Optimal Capital Structure [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Options [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Portfolios of Stocks, Bonds, and Bills [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Real Option Models in Corporate Finance [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Real Option Models in Valuation [EXTERNAL FILE]
• SCORE Spreadsheets [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Time Value of Money [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Two Asset Portfolio [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Valuation in Acquisitions [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Valuation Inputs Spreadsheets [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Valuation of Other Assets [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Valuation of Specific Types of Companies [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Value Enhancement Spreadsheet [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Valuing Companies [EXTERNAL FILE]

Statistics

• Electronic Statistics Textbook [.zip] [EXTERNAL FILE]
• Statistics Outline
• Statistics Review
• TDIST
• ZTABLE

Strategy/Frameworks

• 4 Cs Framework
• 5 Forces Framework [EXTERNAL FILE]
• 6 Principles from Sun Tzu
• Alternative Framework to Porter’s ICA
• Competitive Intelligence Checklist
• FIT Analysis Framework
• Future Value Management™ Methodology
• General Electric Business/Industry Fit Matrix
• Human Performance Framework
• IBM Consulting Group Framework
• Kotler’s Attack and Defense Strategies
• McKinsey 7-S Framework: A Checklist
• McKinsey’s 7-S and Pascale’s Adaption Thereof
• McKinsey’s Nine-Cell Business Portfolio Framework
• Motorola’s 14 Questions Framework
• Porter’s Chapter Summaries - Chapter 5: Four Studies…
• Porter’s Chapter Summaries - Chapter.3: Determinants of National Competitive Advantage
• Porter’s Chapter Summaries - Chapter 1: The Need for A New Paradigm
• Portfolio Management Principles (Four-Region Framework)
• Recommended Strategy Reading
• STEEP Analysis Tool
• Strategic Management - Analysis / Choice / Implementation
• SWOT Analysis
• The Hay Group Strategic Issues Matrix
• The Strategic Planning Process

PRAXIS MATERIAL

• Case Work
  Case Analysis Template
• Learning Tools
  USC MBA-PM Math Review Files (.zip)
• Marketing
  Introduction to Marketing
• Organizational Behavior
  Organizational Behavior Class Notes Part I
  Organizational Behavior Class Notes Part II
• Reference
  Various Historical Time-Series Economic and Market Data
• Spreadsheets
  Amortization Template
  Basic Option Pricing Models
  Big-picture Valuation Spreadsheets
  BizEd Between the Sheets
  Brealey & Myer’s IMC Guano Project
  Corporate Finance Spreadsheets
  Diversification and Risk
  Economic Value Added
  Estimating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
  Financial Statements Model
  Focused Valuation Spreadsheets
  Forecasting Financial Statements
  Free Cash Flow vs. Cash Flows to Shareholders
  Futures Spreadsheets
  Inflation and the Real Interest Rate
  International Capital Budgeting
  Lease or Buy?
  Multiples
  NPV and IRR Rules
  Optimal Capital Structure
  Options
  Portfolios of Stocks, Bonds, and Bills
  Real Option Models in Corporate Finance
  Real Option Models in Valuation
  SCORE Spreadsheets
  Time Value of Money
  Two Asset Portfolio
  Valuation in Acquisitions
  Valuation Inputs Spreadsheets
  Valuation of Other Assets
  Valuation of Specific Types of Companies
  Value Enhancement Spreadsheet
  Valuing Companies
• Statistics
  Electronic Statistics Textbook [.zip]

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