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Please refer to the following list of textbooks and course materials for online seminars.

Active Investment Management

Required reading

The course does not use a specific course text but does suggest several supplementary textbooks should you wish to work beyond the course materials.  All assignments can be answered by using the reading materials supplied through the course site.

Optional reading

Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (with Thomson ONE - Business School Edition)alt

Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysisalt

Investments: Analysis and Managementalt

The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, 2010 Editionalt

Fundamentals of Investment Management + Stock Investor Pro CD + PowerWebalt

Corporate Valuations-Measuring and Managing Value 

Required reading

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, 5th Edition (Wiley Finance)alt

Optional reading

Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset, Second Edition, University Editionalt

Current Issues In Marketing

Required reading

Principles of Marketing (13th Edition)

Optional reading

Marketing w/ PowerWeb (Mcgraw Hill/Irwin Series in Marketing)alt

Marketing w/PowerWebalt

Marketing Metrics: The Definitive Guide to Measuring Marketing Performance (2nd Edition)alt

Marketing For Dummiesalt

Small Business Marketing for Dummies, Second Editionalt

Dynamic Strategic Management

Required reading

Exploring Corporate Strategy: AND MyStrategyLab: Text and Casesalt

Optional reading

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don'talt

Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Lifealt

The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environmentalt

The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Actionalt

The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain Worldalt

Global Estate and Succession Planning

Required reading

The course does not use a specific course text but does suggest several supplementary textbooks should you wish to work beyond the course materials.  All assignments can be answered by using the reading materials supplied through the course site.

Optional reading

Estate Planning Basicsalt

Kiplinger's Estate Planning: The Complete Guide to Wills, Trusts, and Maximizing Your Legacyalt

AARP Crash Course in Estate Planning, Updated Edition: The Essential Guide to Wills, Trusts, and Your Personal Legacyalt

60-Minute Estate Planner: Fast and Easy Plans for Saving Taxes, Avoiding Probate, and Maximizing Inheritance (Sixty Minute Estate Planner)alt

Beyond the Grave revised edition: The Right Way and the Wrong Way of Leaving Money To Your Children (and Others)alt

Estate Planning For Dummiesalt

Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have Toalt

Plan Your Estatealt

Quicken Willmaker Plus 2009 Edition: Estate Planning Essentials (Book with Software)alt

Offshore Financial Centers

Required reading

The course does not use a specific course text but does suggest several supplementary textbooks should you wish to work beyond the course materials.  All assignments can be answered by using the reading materials supplied through the course site.

Optional reading

Choosing an Offshore: Cybertax in the New Millenniumalt

Offshore Finance Centers and Tax Havens: The Rise of Global Capital (Ichor Business Books)alt

The Offshore Solutionalt

2000 International Tax Havens Guide: The Professional's Source for Offshore Investment Informationalt

Using Offshore Havens For Privacy & Profit: Revised And Updated Editionalt

Offshore Investing (Made E-Z Guides)alt

Investing Offshore: Secrets Of Asset Protectionalt

Secrets of Offshore Tax Havensalt

Tax havens and offshore finance: A study of transnational economic development (Studies in international political economy)alt

International Taxation

Required reading

The course does not use a specific course text but does suggest several supplementary textbooks should you wish to work beyond the course materials.  All assignments can be answered by using the reading materials supplied through the course site.

Optional reading

Introduction to United States International Taxationalt

Taxation of International Transactions: Materials, Texts And Problems (American Casebook Series)alt

Practical Guide to U.S. Taxation of International Transactions, 7th Editionalt

Basic International Taxation Second Edition Volume I : Principlesalt

International Taxation, 3rd (Concepts and Insights)alt

International Taxation in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)alt

International Management

Required reading

International Managementalt

Optional reading

International Management: Managing Across Borders and Cultures, Text and Cases (7th Edition)alt

International Project Managementalt

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peoplealt

International Management: A Strategic Perspectivealt

Decisions, Decisions: The Art of Effective Decision Makingalt

Harvard Business Review on Decision Makingalt

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)alt

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don'talt

Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happenalt

Managing the Innovation Process

Required reading

On Creativity, Innovation and Renewal: A Leader to Leader Guidealt

Managing Creativity and Innovation (Harvard Business Essentials)alt

Optional reading

Creativity in Product Innovationalt

Managing Strategic Innovation and Change: A Collection of Readingsalt

Positive Turbulence: Developing Climates for Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership))alt

The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovationalt

Creativity, Innovation and Qualityalt

Managing Innovation, Design and Creativityalt

The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs: Insanely Different Principles for Breakthrough Successalt

Corporate Entrepreneurship for Competitive Advantage

Required reading

Corporate Entrepreneurship & Innovationalt
or Corporate Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Development within Organizationsalt

Optional reading

Corporate Entrepreneurship: Building an Entrepreneurial Organizationalt

Corporate Entrepreneurship: Top Managers and New Business Creationalt

Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (6th Edition)alt

Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship, Volume 15 (Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth)alt

Entrepreneurship: Strategies and Resourcesalt

Corporate Venturing: Creating New Businesses within the Firmalt

Getting Bigger by Growing Smaller: A New Growth Model for Corporate Americaalt

From Concept to Wall Street: A Complete Guide to Entrepreneurship and Venture Capitalalt

Innovation and Entrepreneurshipalt

Effective Brand Management

Required reading

The course does not use a specific course text but does suggest several supplementary textbooks should you wish to work beyond the course materials.  All assignments can be answered by using the reading materials supplied through the course site.

Optional reading

Priceless: Turning Ordinary Products into Extraordinary Experiencesalt

Big Brands Big Trouble: Lessons Learned the Hard Wayalt

A New Brand World: Eight Principles for Achieving Brand Leadership in the Twenty-First Centuryalt

Brand Child: Remarkable Insights into the Minds of Today's Global Kids & Their Relationships with Brandsalt

Brands That Rock: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the World of Rock and Rollalt

Building the Brand-Driven Business: Operationalize Your Brand to Drive Profitable Growthalt

eBrands: Building an Internet Business at Breakneck Speedalt

Branding Across Borders: A Guide to Global Brand Marketingalt

Multicultural Management

Required reading

Competing Globally: Mastering Multicultural Management and Negotiations (Managing Cultural Differences)alt

Optional reading

Managing People Across Cultures (Culture for Business Series)alt

Creating the Multicultural Organization: A Strategy for Capturing the Power of Diversityalt

The 10 Lenses: Your Guide to Living and Working in a Multicultural World (Capital Ideas for Business & Personal Development)alt

Business Across Cultures (Culture for Business Series)alt

A Framework for Understanding Povertyalt

Bridging Cultural Conflicts: A New Approach for a Changing Worldalt

Barriers to Conflict Resolutionalt

Ethics in Business

Required reading

Business Ethics, A Teaching and Learning Classroom Edition: Concepts and Casesalt

Optional reading

Cases in Ethics and the Conduct of Businessalt

Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making & Casesalt

Case Studies in Business Ethics (6th Edition)alt

Ethics and the Conduct of Business (6th Edition)alt

Business Ethics: A Stakeholder and Issues Management Approachalt

There's No Such Thing As "Business" Ethics: There's Only One Rule For Making Decisionsalt

Harvard Business Review on Corporate Ethics (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)alt

International Organizational Behavior

Required reading

International Organizational Behavior, Second Editionalt

Optional reading

Organizational Behavior (14th Edition) (MyManagementLab Series)alt

Organizational Behavior: Foundations, Reality and Challenges (with InfoTrac)alt

Now, Discover Your Strengthsalt

Organizational Behavior: An Experiential Approach (8th Edition)alt

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Donealt

Management of Organizational Behavior (9th Edition)alt

Core Concepts of Organizational Behavioralt

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)alt

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peoplealt

International Marketing

Required reading

Global Marketing: A Decision-Oriented Approach (4th Edition)alt

Optional reading

Basic Marketing W/Applications in Basic Marketing: Global-Managerial Approach (No. 1)alt br />
International Retail Marketing: A Case Study Approachalt

Global Marketing, 6th Editionalt

Global Marketing and Advertising: Understanding Cultural Paradoxesalt

Global Marketing Managementalt

Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lusteralt

Corporate Finance

Required reading

Fundamentals of Corporate Finance plus MyFinanceLab Student Access Kitalt

Optional reading

Effective International Joint Venture Management

Required reading

Effective International Joint Venture Management: Practical Legal Insights for Successful Organization and Implementationalt

Optional reading

Managing Multinational Teams, Volume 18: Global Perspectives (Advances in International Management)alt br />
Cooperative Strategies and Alliances (International Business and Management) (International Business and Management Series)alt

The Essentials of Teamworking: International Perspectivesalt

Strategic Alliances in Eastern and Central Europe (International Business and Management)alt

Strategic Partnerships: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Joint Ventures and Alliancesalt

Due Diligence for Global Deal Making: The Definitive Guide to Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), Joint Ventures, Financings, and Strategic Alliancesalt

Introduction to Accounting and Finance Principles

Required reading

The course does not use a specific course text but does suggest several supplementary textbooks should you wish to work beyond the course materials.  All assignments can be answered by using the reading materials supplied through the course site.

Optional reading

Introduction to Financial Accounting (10th Edition) (MyAccountingLab Series)alt

International Introduction to Financial Accountingalt

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Finance and Accountingalt

Financial Accounting: An International Introduction (3rd Edition)alt

Introduction to Financial Accountingalt

Principles of Corporate Finance, Concise (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate)alt

Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabiscoalt

Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You to Know: What You Can Do to Fight Backalt

What Went Wrong at Enron: Everyone's Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. Historyalt

Research Methodology

Required reading

The course does not use a specific course text but does suggest several supplementary textbooks should you wish to work beyond the course materials.  All assignments can be answered by using the reading materials supplied through the course site.

Optional reading

Business Research Methods with Student DVD (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series / Operations and Decision Sciences)alt

Business Research Methods (Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin)alt

Business Research Methods (with Qualtrics Card)alt

Research Methods, 7th Editionalt

Research Methods (Examples & Explanations Series)alt

Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approachesalt

The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)alt

Research Methods: A Process of Inquiry (7th Edition)alt

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)alt

 

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