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Fw: MBA Depot Monthly Newsletter

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Most Popular Entries for December:
- Articles and Links
- Market Research Entries
- Business Related Quotes
- Vault Files
- Recommended Books
- Business Graphics
- Thought Leader Entries
- Expert Center Entries
- Case Study Entries
- Career Entries
- Prospective MBA Entries

Most Popular Articles / Links

Title: Advanced Negotiating and Closing Skills
Subject: Management
Source: Charles Warner

Title: Globalization At Risk: Why Your Corporate Strategy Should Allow for a Divided and Disorderly World
Subject: International
Source: Deloitte Research / Dwight Allen, Michael E. Raynor

Title: The Forecasting Canon: Nine Generalizations to Improve Forecast Accuracy
Subject: Operations
Source: Foresight / J. Scott Armstrong

Title: Core Finance Trends in the Top MBA Programs in 2005
Subject: MBA Related
Source: SSRN / Kent L. Womack, Ying Zhang

Title: The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Subject: Education
Source: Bartleby.com, Houghton Mifflin Company

Title: Sustainability management With the Balanced Scorecard
Subject: Social Responsibility
Source: University of St. Gallen / Thomas Bieker

Title: BNET Free MyWorkTools
Subject: Free Stuff / Tools
Source: BNET / MyWorkTools.com

Title: Managing Smart: Enabling Under-Performers To Become Valued Contributors
Subject: Management
Source: Ivey Business Journal / Jean-Fran�ois Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux

Title: Top ten tips for filling a vacancy
Subject: Human Resources
Source: TheWorkingManager.com / Helen Kelly

Title: Time as a personality variable?
Subject: Miscellaneous
Source: TheWorkingManager.com / David West

Most Popular Market Research Entries

Title: Top 10 "Personal" Email Address Domains: 2004-2005
Subject: IT / Internet / E-Business
Source: MarketingSherpa.com

Title: U.S. Mobile Phone Market
Subject: Industry Specific
Source: eMarketer

Title: Business-Intelligence Software Market
Subject: Industry Specific
Source: InformationWeek

Title: MarketingSherpa Study Results: 3,271 Marketers Reveal Search Marketing Costs, Clicks, & Conversions
Subject: Marketing/Sales
Source: MarketingSherpa.com

Title: Call Center Market
Subject: Industry Specific
Source: Gallup Management Journal

Most Popular Business Related Quotes

Author: Lucas Conley
Quote: Bill Schley, author of Why Johnny Can't Brand (Portfolio, November 2005), says branding "is not what you say but what you do." But what a company does is already, well, what it does! To brand, in a corporate sense, is no more a verb than "to gorgeous." A brand is a result, not a tactic. One cannot go about branding an organization or a product or a service; the organization, product, or service is what creates the brand. In a brilliant twist, the experts have bottled an end and sold it as a means...Remove the hype, and branding is just commonsense strategy, rebranded.
Source: Fast Company
Subject: Brand

Author: Henry Ford
Quote: Business must be run at a pr ofit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for pr ofit... then the business must die as well, for it no longer has a reason for existence.
Source: IESE Insight
Subject: Mission

Author: George Stalk, Jr.
Quote: Many executives believe that competitive advantage is best achieved by providing the most value for the lowest cost. This is the traditional paradigm for corporate success. Providing the most value for the lowest cost in the least amount of time is the new paradigm for corporate success.
Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Subject: Competition

Author: M�rten Mickos
Quote: For innovations to happen, someone must cross a boundary, and ideas must flow freely. It can be the boundary between two labs, between vendor and buyer, between two countries, between two sciences or between two schools. But it must be crossed. The power of innovation always lies in the combination of disparate constituents.
Source: European Business Forum (EBF)
Subject: Innovation

Author: Michael Hannan
Quote: Organizations are characterized by inertia and there are good reasons for this. Reliability and accountability are valued attributes of organizations. These qualities are strengthened by predictable routines and structures, which create inertia as a byproduct.
Source: Stanford Business
Subject: Organizational Behavior

Most Popular Vault Files

Title: IT Due Diligence Data Collection Templates
Subject: IT / Internet / E-Business
Source: TechRepublic

Most Popular Recommended Books

Title: The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
Subject: Management
Source: Peter F. Drucker, Joseph Maciariello

Title: MarketBusters: 40 Strategic Moves That Drive Exceptional Business Growth
Subject: Strategy
Source: Rita Gunther McGrath, Ian C. Macmillan

Title: Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
Subject: Strategy
Source: W. Chan Kim, Ren�e Mauborgne

Title: The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors And Closing Deals Online
Subject: Career/Employment
Source: David Teten, Scott Allen

Title: Big Winners and Big Losers : The 4 Secrets of Long-Term Business Success and Failure
Subject: Strategy
Source: Alfred A. Marcus

Most Popular Business Graphics

Title: The Loyalty Pyramid: The Benefits of Satisfying Customers
Subject: Customer-Related
Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Title: Innovation Matrix
Subject: Innovation
Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Title: Six Success Levers for R&D
Subject: Operations
Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Most Popular Thought Leader Entries

Thought Leader: Ann Moore
Source: http://www.mbadepot.com/redir.php?ID=332&db_table=interviews

Thought Leader: Roy Spence
Source: Gallup Management Journal

Most Popular Expert Center Entries

Title: regarding CMBA
Category: Business - Finance - All
Industry: ANY
Question: hi friends,
i want to have a good piece of advice, as one recent concept is shelling out from this web world called , CMBA , certified MBA , i m doing 1 yr Exec Business management program .
Asking to all my fellow members , whether i should go for this international certification to prove my worth among all MBAs.
regards
Arun

Title: MENTORING ACTIVITIES
Category: Business - Human Resources - All
Industry: ANY
Question: Am a student of PGDBM - HR, and we have a workshop based on training skills in which i have to train my peers on the subject mentoring.

In this way my training skills will be tested and my peers will learn the topic mentoring.

So i need some games, audio or video, quizzes, puzzles etc... to train them.

If anyone has the relevant material can u pls pass that on to me at vanita.nigoo@gmail.com at the earliest.

Thanks !!!

Title: MBA AFTER FIVE YEAR OF EXPERIENCE AT
Category: Business - Career - Career Counseling
Industry: Automotive
Question: Hello Friends,

I am an engineering graduate with five years of sales exp,I am planning to do my MBA from US.

I am apprehensive about the fact that i am having low grades in my engg(64%).Please let me know how this can affect my chances in moving into one of the good business school.

also let me know when actually to give GMAT from now.

regards

Alok

Title: Managerial Economics Case Study
Category: Business - Management - All
Industry: Student
Question: Hi,everybody,i need a case study report to research my subject paper.hope to get help from you.
project: editor:Salva Torry
P73 "The Decision To Invest in Wendy's Restaurants"

Title: international market research project help
Category: Business - Market Research - All
Industry: ANY
Question: sir

i have a international marketing project in my mba. i have to select 1 company & its product and present a reserch analysis for its entry into another chosen country. either source or destination country has to be india.. net to be source of info. plz advise which company would be suited wrt maximum data/info availability on net... i was thinking for virgin atlantic's entry into indian aviation sector but not getting all info on net.. i guess entry into INDIA wud be better option ie india as destination?? plz reply asap

Most Popular Case Study Entries

Title: How Emerson Rebounded from a Bad Loss
Subject: International
Source: HBS Working Knowledge

Most Popular Career Entries

Title: The 6 Species of Interviewers
Subject: General Help
Source: Monster.com / Doug Hardy

Title: Why You Shouldn't Shelve Your Job Hunt in December
Subject: General Help
Source: CareerJournal.com / Perri Capell, William L. Handler

Most Popular Prospective MBA Entries

Title: How an MBA Can Help You
Source: Monster.com / Jennifer deJong

Title: How Corporations and Higher Education Can Work Together for the Greater Good
Source: Focus / Doug Lynch

Title: Social Responsibility Becomes A Selling Point for M.B.A.s
Source: CareerJournal.com / Ron Alsop

Title: European B-Schools Step Up Recruitment of U.S. Students
Source: CareerJournal.com / Ron Alsop

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