The Book List.

Here is the most recent booklist from the school.


PRE-MBA.
Accounting
Accounting for non-accounting students, J.R. Dyson. 7th ed. FT PrenticeHall, 2007.

Microeconomics
Microeconomics Robert Pindyck og Daniel L Rubinfeld, Prentice Hall, latest edition.

TERM 1.
Organisational Behaviour
Penny Dick & Steve Ellis. 2005/2006. Introduction to Organizational Behaviour [3rd Ed.]. Berkshire, UK: McGraw Hill Education.

Management Accounting
Zimmerman. Accounting for Decision Making and Control. McGraw-Hill Irwin. 6th edition.
Managerial Decision Making
Pending

TERM 2.
Economics
David Besanko, David Dranove, Mark Shanley, Scott Schaefer. Economics of Strategy. 4rd edition, Wiley 2006.
Begg, Fisher & Dornbush. Economics. 8th edition, Mc Graw-Hill.

International Marketing Management
Kotler, Philip and Kevin Lane Keller (2006). Marketing Management. 12th edition. Pearson, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (NJ).

Human Ressource Management
· Tony Edwards & Chris Rees. 2006. International Human Resource Management. Edinburgh Gate, UK: Pearson Education Limited.

TERM 3.
Financial Accounting
Financial Accounting – A Global Perspective, 5th edition, by Libby, Libby & Short, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007.
Ivy Software's Financial Accounting: A Management Perspective. Ivy Software can be reached at http://www.ivysoftware.com/products/faamp.htm.

Change Management
John Hayes: The Theory and Practice of Change Management (2007), second edition, Palgrave MacMillan.

Operations & Strategy Management
Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Strategies for Reducing Costs and Improving Services, 3rd edition by Christopher, M., FT Prentice Hall, Harlow. 2005

TERM 4 .
Corporate Finance
Brealey, Myers & Allen: Corporate Finance. 8ed 2006

Corporate Branding
Pending.

Strategic Management
Pending.

TERM 5 & 6.
International Business
Cavusgil, S.T; G. Knight and J.R. Riesenberger. 2008. International Business: Strategy, Management and the New Realities. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.

Corporate Social Responsibility
No book required for this course

International Negotiations
Fisher, Ury, & Patton. Getting to Yes (2nd ed.) New York: Penguin (1991).
Lewicki, Barry, Saunders, & Minton.. Essentials of Negotiation (3rd ed.) New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin. ISBN: 0072545828

Corporate Governance
Steen Thomsen. An Introduction to Corporate Governance. DJØF Publishing, Copenhagen, 2008

Mergers & Acquisitions
Takeovers, Restructuring and Corporate Governance, fourth ed. by J. Fred Weston, Mark L. Mitchell and J. Harold Mulherin. Prentice Hall.

Business Development
No books for this course.

Radical Innovation
Pending

Design Management
No book require for this course.

Get Ready!

Little more than a week to go before I start the MBA at CBS (Copenhagen Business School).
So time to get this blog started.


When I recieved my acceptance letter I got the idea to start a blog dedicated to my MBA experience.
The aim, to give me a place where I can work through the knowledge seen from a game development perspective.


So why an MBA?
Well I believe that the games industry is now dealing with production scopes that justify producers educating themselves within the traditional management field.
Furthermore, when you look at how diverse the skill set of a game producer has to be, the MBA really stands apart as the education to get, in order to "get the most bang for you buck" so to speak.

Here is an outline of the CBS MBA program: