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World-class business education in a single volume. Getting an MBA is an expensive choice-one almost impossible to justify regardless of the state of the economy. Even elite schools like Harvard and Wharton offer outdated, assembly-line programs that teach you more about PowerPoint presentations and unnecessary financial models than what it takes to run a real business. You can get better results (and save hundreds of thousands of dollars) by skipping B-school altogether. Josh Kaufman founded PersonalMBA.com as an alternative to the business school boondoggle. 

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• The Iron Law of the Market: Why every business is limited by the size and quality of the market it attempts to serve-and how to find large, hungry markets.
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• The Pricing Uncertainty Principle: All prices are malleable. Raising your prices is the best way to dramatically increase profitability if you know how to support the price you're asking. 
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This document introduces the basic concepts of career development and their application to advising activities at further education and training. Topics covered includes: Career Success, Career Development, Career Decision Making, Career Maturity and Employability.

Author(s): South African Qualifications Authority

This book covers the following topics: Business Communication, Barriers and Gateways in Communication, Essentials of Business Communication , Business Correspondence: Letter Writing, Company Correspondence: Report Writing, Business Communication: Company Meetings, Correspondence Relating to In Quiries and Instruction, Public Speaking and Presentation, Business Communication: Negotiations and Legal Aspects.

Author(s): Directorate of Distance Education, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science

This note covers the following topics: Defining career management, Method of investigation, extent of implementation of career management programmes in the Public Service, The manner in which careers are managed in the absence of formal programmes, Career management as applied by a sample of institutions outside the Public Service, Proposals in respect of the implementation of a career management programme.

Author(s): Johannes Stephanus Hartzenberg

This note describes the following topics: Theories of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneur and Manager, Entrepreneurship and Role of Environment, Entrepreneurship Development Programmes, Women Entrepreneurship, Small Business, Setting-up of Small Scale Unit, Forms of Ownership, Management Process in Small Business, Marketing Management for Small Business, Policy Framework for Small Business, Institutional Support for Small Business, Export Promotion, Import Substitution, and Small Business.

Author(s): Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University

This note describes the following topics: Entrepreneurship Development in Global contexts, Dynamics of Entrepreneurship Development, Entrepreneurship Quality and Motivation, Process of Developing Entrepreneur Qualities, Sensing Business opportunity, Business Plan Preparation, Modernization and Expansion of Enterprise.

Author(s): Eiilm University

This book covers the following topics: Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship, Factors Affecting Entrepreneurship Growth : Economic, Social, Psychological and Political Factors, Entrepreneurship Development, Entrepreneurial Motivation, Method and Procedures to start and expand one�s own Business, Environmental Factors affecting success of a new business; reasons for the failure and visible problems for business, Project Formulation, Selection of Factory Location, Demand analysis and market potential measurement, Working Capital Management, Government Support to Entrepreneurs: Policy Initiatives for Entrepreneurial Growth; Incentives and Subsidies, Institutional Support to Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship Development Programmes.

Author(s): Guru Jambheshwar University

This guide is designed to present a framework for evaluating a business concept and describes the many steps involved in starting a biotechnology company.

Author(s): Peter Kolchinsky

This note covers the following topics: The First Option Trade, The Black-Scholes Equation, The Risk Neutral World, Monte Carlo Methods, The Binomial Model, Derivative Contracts on non-traded Assets and Real Options, Discrete Hedging, Derivative Contracts on non-traded Assets and Real Options, Discrete Hedging, Jump Diffusion, Regime Switching, Mean Variance Portfolio Optimization.

Author(s): Peter Forsyth

This book covers the following topics: Introductory Finance Issues: Current Patterns, Past History, and International Institutions, National Income and the Balance of Payments Accounts, The Whole Truth about Trade Imbalances, Foreign Exchange Markets and Rates of Return, Interest Rate Parity, Purchasing Power Parity, Interest Rate Determination, Policy Effects with Floating Exchange Rates, Fixed Exchange Rates, Policy Effects with Fixed Exchange Rates.

Author(s): Steve Suranovic