Business strategy
Foundations of Business Strategy • Professor Michael Lenox, University of Virginia Darden School of Business (Coursera)
Negotiation
Successful Negotiation: Essential Skills and Strategies • Professor George Siedel, University of Michigan (Coursera)
Business ethics
New Models of Business in Society • Professor R. Freeman, University of Virginia Darden School of Business (Coursera)
CONCENTRATION COURSES
Branding
Digital Branding and Engagement • Professor Sonia Dickinson, Curtin University (edX)
Marketing
Digital Marketing Specialization (6 courses) • University of Illinois (Coursera)
Sample Course List 4, Concentration: Management and Leadership
FOUNDATION COURSES
Self-directed learning
Learning How to Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help You Master Tough Subjects • Professors Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski, University of California San Diego (Coursera)
Operations management
Introduction to Operations Management • Professor Christian Terwiesch, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business (Coursera)
Project management
Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management • Professor Yael Grushka-Cockayne, University of Virginia Darden School of Business (Coursera)
Business strategy
Foundations of Business Strategy • Professor Michael Lenox, University of Virginia Darden School of Business (Coursera)
Communication
Leadership Communication for Maximum Impact: Storytelling • Professor Tom Collinger, Northwestern University (Coursera)
SKILL-BUILDING AND ELECTIVE COURSES
Human resources management
Managing Talent • Professors Scott DeRue, Maxim Sytch, and Cheri Alexander, University of Michigan Ross School of Business (Coursera)
Management theory
Critical Perspectives on Management • Professor Rolf Strom-Olsen, IE Business School (Coursera)
Negotiation
Successful Negotiation: Essential Skills and Strategies • Professor George Siedel, University of Michigan (Coursera)
Business ethics
The Three-Pillar Model for Business Decisions: Strategy, Law, and Ethics • Professor George Siedel, University of Michigan (Coursera)
Design thinking
Design Kit: The Course for Human-Centered Design • IDEO.org, +Acumen (NovoEd)
CONCENTRATION COURSES
Strategy
Competitive Strategy and Organization Design Specialization (4 courses) • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Coursera)
Leadership and management
Strategic Leadership and Management Specialization (7 courses) • University of Illinois (Coursera)
APPENDIX D
For Further Reading
Bock, Laszlo. Work Rules! Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Clark, Dorie. Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.
Craig, Ryan. College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education. New York: Macmillan, 2015.
Grant, Adam. Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. New York: Viking/Penguin, 2013.
Kaufman, Josh. The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2012.
Mintzberg, Henry. Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing and Management Development. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005.
Oakley, Barbara. Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential. New York: TarcherPerigee/Penguin, 2017.
Pink, Daniel. To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Persuading, Convincing, and Influencing Others. New York: Riverhead Books/Penguin, 2012.
Rath, Tom. StrengthsFinder 2.0. New York: Gallup Press, 2013.
Reis, Eric. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. New York: Crown Business, 2011.
Shell, G. Richard. Springboard: Launching Your Personal Search for Success. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2013.
APPENDIX E
Resources at NoPayMBA.com
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Portfolio
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Facebook Group
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NOTES AND REFERENCES
INTRODUCTION
1.Bureau of Labor Statistics, “News Release: Number of Jobs Held, Labor Market Activity, and Earnings Growth Among the Youngest Baby Boomers: Results from a Longitudinal Study,” March 31, 2015, http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/nlsoy.pdf.
2.Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2015), 66.
3.Ed Batista, “Should You Get an MBA?” Harvard Business Review, September 4, 2014, https://hbr.org/2014/09/should-you-get-an-mba.
4.“Business School Career and Salary, San Diego State University,” U.S. News and World Report, accessed January 4, 2017, http://premium.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/san-diego-state-university-01024/salary-stats. Note: Premium, subscription only link.
5.Laurent Ortmans, “MBA by the Numbers: Inside the $200,000 Cost,” Financial Times, February 14, 2016, https://www.ft.com/content/f6696828-be05-11e5-846f-79b0e3d20eaf#axzz40Hgqxg9w.
6.Anant Agarwal, “Unbundled: Reimagining Higher Education,” Huffington Post, December 9, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anant-agarwal/unbundled-reimagining-higher-education_b_4414048.html.
CHAPTER 1
1.Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (New York: Ballantine Books, 2006).
2.Steve Jobs, interview by David Sheff, Playboy Magazine, February 1985.
CHAPTER 2
1.Laura Pappano, “The Year of the MOOC,” New York Times, November 2, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-rapid-pace.html?_r=0.
2.Chris Parr, “Mooc Creators Criticise Courses’ Lack of Creativity,” Times Higher Education, October 17, 2013, https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mooc-creators-criticise-courses-lack-of-creativity/2008180.article.
3.John Markoff, “Visual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course,” New York Times, August 15, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/science/16stanford.html.
4.Andrew Ng and Jennifer Widom, “Origins of the Modern MOOC (xMOOC),” accessed August 10, 2016, http://www.andrewng.org/?portfolio=origins-of-the-modern-mooc-xmooc.
5.Dhawal Shah, “By the Numbers: MOOCs in 2015,” December 21, 2015, https://www.class-central.com/report/moocs-2015-stats/.
CHAPTER 3
1.J. Duncan Herrington, “MBA: Past Present and Future,” Academy of Educational Leadership Journal 14, no. 1 (2010): 63-76.
2.Yale School of Management, “MBA,” accessed August 22, 2016, http://som.yale.edu/programs/mba.
3.MIT Sloan School of Management, “MBA Program,” accessed August 22, 2016, http://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/.
CHAPTER 4
1.Ryan Craig, College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015), chap. 11, 3rd section.
2.Ryan Craig and Daniel Pianko, “Death of the Degree
? Not So Fast,” Inside Higher Ed, November 16, 2012, https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2012/11/16/disruption-will-make-degrees-more-valuable-not-less-essay.
3.Michelle Weise, “The Real Revolution in Online Education Isn’t MOOCs,” Harvard Business Review, October 17, 2014, https://hbr.org/2014/10/the-real-revolution-in-online-education-isnt-moocs.
4.Craig Hickman, Mind of a Manager, Soul of a Leader (New York: Wiley, 1992).
5.Douglas Martin, “Ed Sabol, Who Elevated Football Founding NFL Films, Dies at 98,” New York Times, February 9, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/sports/football/ed-sabol-nfl-films-founder-dies-at-98.html?_r=0.
CHAPTER 5
1.Eric Reis, The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (New York: Crown Business, 2011).
2.Jeanne Liedtka, Design Thinking for Innovation, Coursera, accessed January 5, 2017, https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-innovation.
3.Steve Jobs, “’You’ve Got to Find What You Love,’ Jobs Says,” Stanford News, June 14, 2005, http://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/.
4.NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, “Tracks Exercise,” 2013, http://wagner.nyu.edu/files/careers/TracksExercise.pdf.
5.Richard Dobbs, Jaana Remes, and Jonathan Woetzel, “Where to Look for Global Growth,” McKinsey Quarterly, January 2015, http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/employment-and-growth/where-to-look-for-global-growth.
6.Andy Kiersz, “The 21 Best Jobs of the Future,” Business Insider, December 14, 2015, http://www.businessinsider.com/the-21-best-jobs-of-the-future-2015-12/.
CHAPTER 6
1.Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000).
2.Susan Adams, “New Survey: LinkedIn More Dominant Than Ever Among Job Seekers and Recruiters, but Facebook Poised to Gain,” Forbes, February 5, 2013, http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/02/05/new-survey-linked-in-more-dominant-than-ever-among-job-seekers-and-recruiters-but-facebook-poised-to-gain/.
3.Andrew Jefferson Hill, “Social Learning in Massive Open Online Courses: An Analysis of Pedagogical Implications and Students’ Learning Experiences,” in UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations (Los Angeles: UC Los Angeles, 2015), http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qr7p6rq.
4.Mimi Zheng, “How 1 Tweet Led to an Internship in Silicon Valley,” Huffington Post, October 23, 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mimi-zheng/how-1-tweet-led-to-an-int_b_12584624.html.
CHAPTER 7
1.Portfolium, “About Us,” accessed January 6, 2017, https://portfolium.com/about.
CHAPTER 8
1.Christian Terwiesch, “Wharton Business Professor on MOOCs and the Future of the MBA,” No-Pay MBA (blog),.February 24, 2015, https://www.nopaymba.com/wharton-business-professor-moocs-future-mba/.
2.Michael Spence, “Job Market Signaling,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 87, no. 3 (August, 1973): 355–374.
3.“Keeping an Eye on Recruiter Behavior: New Study Clarifies Recruiter Decision-Making,” TheLadders.com, March 2012, https://cdn.theladders.net/static/images/basicSite/pdfs/TheLadders-EyeTracking-StudyC2.pdf.
CHAPTER 9
1.Quentin Hardy, “Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt or Else,” New York Times, February 13, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/technology/gearing-up-for-the-cloud-att-tells-its-workers-adapt-or-else.
2.Jen Hubley Luckwaldt, “5 High-Paying Jobs That Didn’t Exist 10 Years Ago,” Payscale.com, 2015, http://www.payscale.com/career-news/2015/09/5-high-paying-jobs-that-didnt-exist-10-years-ago.
3.Peter High, “MIT Team Turns 6.9 Million Clicks into Insights to Improve Online Education,” Forbes, August 11, 2014, http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2014/08/11/mit-team-turns-6-9-million-clicks-into-insights-to-improve-online-education/#69119421b0eb.
4.Degreed.com, “Manifesto,” accessed December 14, 2016, https://degreed.com/about.
5.Dhawal Shah, “Monetization over Massiveness: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2016,” Class Central, accessed January 2, 2017, https://www.class-central.com/report/moocs-stats-and-trends-2016/.
CONCLUSION
1.Katty Kay and Claire Shipman, “The Confidence Gap,” The Atlantic, May 2014.
INDEX
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About.me
The Accelerator
core curriculum for
goal of
Accenture
accountability partners
achievements, documenting your
+Acumen
+Acumen Corps
admissions process
and defining your goals
and finances
and holding yourself accountable
and selecting yourself
steps in
and time commitment
Adviser’s Challenges
Agarwal, Anant
Alexander, Cheri
ALISON
Alpha Team
American Public Media
Apple
appreciative inquiry
apps, goal-setting
The Art of Self-Coaching (Batista)
Asana
assessing yourself
The Atlantic
AT&T
Aulet, Bill
Australia
Bain & Company
Bank of America
Batista, Ed
believing in yourself
Bell, David
Beshamov, Erdin
Beyond Silicon Valley (course)
Big-Picture Thinking
as business skill
as category of study
recommended courses in
“Big Three”
Biodyne
Blank, Steve
Bloomberg Business
Bloomberg Television
BNP Paribas
Bock, Laszlo
Bonds and Bridges
books
on coaching
cost of
The Boston Consulting Group
Bowling Alone (Putnam)
Brand Aid
brand identity, your
budgeting
bulleted highlights (on resume)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bushee, Brian
Business Analytics Specialization (course)
business education, and customizing your core curriculum
business ethics, as foundational subject
Business Insider
business leadership, as foundational subject
Business Model Canvas
business publications
business schools, traditional
business skills, see skills
Business Strategy Specialization (course)
business study groups
business terminology, familiarity with
calendar, marking your
Canada
Canvas.net
Caproni, Paula
career coaches
career development
and assessing yourself
and coaching yourself
and credentials
developing hypotheses for
and job interviews
and marketing yourself
and taking a satellite’s-eye view
and taking a worm’s-eye view
testing hypotheses for
and thought leadership
Career-Self Fit
Case Western Reserve University
Center for Global Enterprise (CGE)
Certificate in Social Sector Leadership
certificates
“verified”
and your “story”
CGE (Center for Global Enterprise)
> challenges, using, to develop your skills
Chi, Ruobing
Chicago, Illinois
Childbirth (course)
Citadel
Class Central
Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruption
Clearly Health
coaches, fees for
coaching yourself
Coach.me
College Disrupted (Craig)
Collinger, Tom
Collins, Bart
Communicating Strategically (course)
communication, recommended courses on
Communication and Storytelling, as business skill
company trends
Competitive Strategy and Organization Design Specialization (course)
concentration, choosing your
connections, maintaining
Connors, Roger
consulting projects, short-term
continuing education
employers’ support for
and global learning
and the Next Big Thing
and paying it forward
sharpening your skills with
and success in life
tracking your
utilizing your network for
contracts with yourself
core curriculum
and becoming familiar with business terminology
and choosing your first courses
customizing your
foundational subjects for
and getting a foundation
and immersing yourself in business language/culture
selecting your
in traditional business schools
and your goals
corporate finance, as foundational subject
Corporate Finance (course)
costs of traditional MBA programs
Coursera
courses
choosing your first
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