The Big Picture MBA: What Every Business School Graduate Knows

Written by Peter Navarro

Narrated by Peter Navarro

This course is designed to give listeners an overview of the MBA degree-one of the most valuable graduate degrees available. The focus is on the major courses taught in the core curriculum at any one of the top fifty business schools in the United States. We begin with an overview of the MBA core curriculum then proceed systematically through each of the major courses taught at America's top business schools-from accounting, finance, and marketing to economics, organizational behavior, and strategy. The course concludes with two lectures that will help you select, apply to, and prepare for your business schools of choice. However, you don't have to be a prospective student to benefit from this course. Any business executive wishing to further hone his or her management skills will find this course to be extremely valuable.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Feb 20, 2009
• ISBN: 9781436186933

Peter Navarro

PETER NAVARRO (LAGUNA BEACH, CALIFORNIA) is one of only three senior White House officials who remained with President Trump from the 2016 presidential campaign to the end of his first term in office. Navarro was director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, served as policy coordinator for the Defense Production Act during the pandemic, and was a principal architect of Trump’s tariff, trade, and “tough on China” policies. Navarro is a noted China scholar, sought-after public speaker, and award-winning professor emeritus at the University of California-Irvine. His numerous books include the bestselling Taking Back Trump's America, In Trump Time and The Coming China Wars, and he has delivered keynote speeches to audiences around the world. Navarro holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, a master’s in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government, and a B.A. from Tufts University. He has appeared frequently on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, and CNBC. The author lives & works in the Los Angeles metro area. www.peternavarro.com

Reviews for The Big Picture MBA

[pbadeer · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

While I am a strong believer in the Modern Scholar imprint from Recorded Books, this wasn't one of their best titles. It's not that it was badly done, it was that the subject matter really wasn't conducive to the Modern Scholar concept - namely, 14 half hour lectures. Some of the lectures in this recording were so dense, it's not really practical to cover (and retain) everything in half an hour - and if you are trying to do anything else while you listen (like Driving), you will retain even less. And during the chapter on cost accounting, you run the risk of falling asleep at the wheel. I've been to business school, and I saw this as a light refresher, but there was nothing light to it, and I can't say that I could really recommend it to anyone as an MBA type read, but depending on your interests, some of the chapters are very well done, and I did get some ideas from his discussions on marketing.