Required Book List

CORE COURSES

MBA 603 – Management

• Dr. Hanson's sections:
  • Managing for the Future. Ancona etal Thomson/South-Western, ISBN 0-324-05575-7
• Dr. Fawaz section:
  • The Essentials, an introduction to the most enduring ideas on Management from Harvard Business Review Press, ISBN 978-1-4221-3344-6
  • Being The Boss, The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, Hill & Lineback, Harvard Business Review Press, ISBN 978-1-4221-6389-4
  Recommended Reading:
  • Manger's Toolkit, The 13 Skills Mangers Need to Succeed, Harvard Business Essentials, ISBN 13: 978-1-59139-289-7

MBA 604 – Accounting

• Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods, and Uses. Stickney, Weil, Schipper, Francis, 13th Edition, South-Western Cengage Learning, 2010. ISBN 13: 978-0-324-65114-0.

MBA 605 – Marketing

• Marketing Management by Kotler & Keller Text 14e ISBN 978-0-13-210292-6. We will use the "Strategic Marketing" Simulation at $45.00 per student from Marketplace. See the URL below for an overview and demo. This has multi-media video & animation to help explain the marketing process.
  http://marketplace-simulation.com/products/strategic-marketing.php.

MBA 606 – Finance

• Essentials of Corporate Finance 7e, 2010 by Ross, Westerfield and Jordan. McGraw Hill ISBN 0073382469

MBA 607 – Business Research

• Dr. Tvorik's section:
  • Crafting & Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases, 18/e. Arthur A. Thompson, Jr., The University of Alabama, Margaret A. Peteraf, Dartmouth College, John E. Gamble, University of South Alabama, A. J. Strickland III, The University of Alabama. 2012. ISBN: 0078112729.
    Total cost for the eTextbook and GLOBUS will be $89.95. Students will need a credit card to purchase. Go to the McGraw Hill link provided below: McGraw Hill Link
• Dr. Grant's section:
  • "Flawless Consulting" by Peter Block Publication Date: March 15, 2011, ISBN-10: 0470620749, ISBN-13: 978-0470620748, Edition: 3
    http://store.designedlearning.com/flawless-consulting-3rd-edition/

MBA 695 – Capstone

• Materials provided by instructor.

ELECTIVE COURSES

MBA 621 & 622 – International Finance 1 & 2

• Int'l Financial Management, 6e by Eun & Resnick

MBA 627 – Creating Competitive Advantage

• Materials provided by instructor.

MBA 632 – Economics

• Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, Thomas Sowell, 4th edition (2011). ISBN: 978-0-465-02252-6.

MBA 633 – Essential Business Law

• International Environment of Business by Bohlman and Dunas 6th ed ISBN 0-324-22324-2

MBA 637 – Business Contracts

• Corbin On Contacts, West Publishing Company (1982) ISBN-10: 0314284338, ISBN-13: 978-0314284334

MBA 641 – Art & Science of Persuasion

• Materials provided by instructor.

MBA 642 – Communicate Effectively

• Materials provided by instructor.

MBA 645 – Leadership from Different Perspectives

• Materials provided by instructor.

MBA 650 – New Venture Finance

• Entrepreneurial Finance: a Casebook, Gompers & Sahlman, 2002, John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 0471080667
• They will also need a financial calculator, I prefer the HP 12C but any financial calculator will work. They can share the book if they want to pair up but the reading will be two case studies each week.

MBA 652 – Basic Selling Skills

• Materials available for purchase through instructor.

MBA 653 – Advanced Selling Skills

• Materials available for purchase through instructor.

MBA 654 – Customer Relations Marketing

• Materials provided by instructor.

MBA 663 – Personal Finance

• Materials provided by instructor.

MBA 664 – Real Estate Development

• Estate Development, Principles and Process, by Miles and Berens.

MBA 668 – Negotiation

• Secrets of Power Negotiating by Roger Dawson.

MBA 671 – Leadership in a Government Setting

• Moore, Mark, Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government, (1995) ISBN 0-674-17558-1 Harvard University Press
• Caro, Robert, The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1975) ISBN: 0-394-7204-5 Random House/Vintage Books

MBA 672 – Public Policy Seminar

• Lusting, Jeffery, Remaking California, Reclaiming the Public Good 1st edition (2010) ISBN: 978-1-59714-134-5
  www.heydaybooks.com
• Albey, Rhonda, Pocket Guide to the Basics of Labor Relations 3ed edition (2011) ISBN: 1-9828925-24-3 University of California, California Public Employee Relations Institute for Research on Labor and Employment
  cper.berkeley.edu

MBA 675 – Investing

• Collins, Jim, How The Mighty Fall, ISBN: 978-0-97732-641-9

MBA 676 – Pricing

• Lent & Tour, Selling Luxury (Wiley 2009)

MBA 677 – Business History

• Materials available for purchase from instructor.

MBA 678 – Selling on eBay

• Materials available for purchase through instructor.

MBA 679 - Integrating Faith & Work

• About My Father's Business, Taking Your Faith To Work, Regi Campbell, Multnomah Publishers, 2005, ISBN: 1-59052-407-1
• God at Work: The History and Promise of the Faith at Work Movement, David W. Miller, Oxford University Press, November 2006, ISBN: 0-19-531480-8
• Listen! God Is Calling! Luther Speaks of Vocation, Faith and Work, D. Michael Bennethum, Augsburg Fortress, 2003, ISBN: 0-8066-4991-7

MBA 680 – Transformational Success Coaching

• Materials provided by instructor.

MBA 681 – Transformational Success Coaching 2

• Materials provided by instructor.

MBA 684 – Project Management

• Title: An Introduction to Project Management, Third Edition: With Brief Guides to Microsoft Project 2007 and @task [Paperback]
  Author: Kathy Schwalbe
  ISBN-10: 0615308910
  Edition: 2009

MBA 686 – Business Process Management

• Required:
• Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementation - 2nd edition. John Jeston and Johan Nelis, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-7506-8656-3.
• BPMN: Modeling and Reference Guide. Stephen A. White and Derek Miers, Future Strategies, Inc., 2008. ISBN: 978-0-977527-2-0.
• Recommended:
• Visio 2007 Inside Out. Mark Walker, Microsoft Press. ISBN: 0735623295.
• Microsoft Visio 2007 (Also Available in GH PC Lab)
• Microsoft Project 2007 (Also Available in GH PC Lab)

MBA 687 – B2B Marketing

• Materials provided by instructor.

MBA 696 – Capstone

• Rogoff, Edward G., (2007) Bankable Business Plans, Second Edition, Rowhouse Publishing. (however, the students purchase it from commercial sources rather than the CUI Bookstore)