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Career GPS

Ella L.J. Edmondson Bell
Amistad, 2010

In CAREER GPS, Professor Bell has drawn from her experience as a professor, consultant to Fortune 100 companies, and founder of ASCENT, the first management and leadership program committed to the professional development and career advancement of women. One of the nation’s most respected experts in women’s career advancement and retention, Bell profiles dozens of smart, successful women who have made it to the top of the corporate world—and explains how they did it.

Recent Books

  • Managerial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses (eighth edition) Clyde P. Stickney, Michael Maher, Roman L. Weil
    South-Western Publishers, 2003

    The updated eighth edition of this classic text for MBA programs offers balanced coverage of concepts, methods, and uses of managerial accounting with an increasingly strong emphasis on strategic management issues. This approach helps to focus on concepts and managerial uses of financial information rather than techniques of cost accounting.

  • Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution Chris R. Trimble, Vijay Govindarajan
    Harvard Business School Press, 2005

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  • Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods, and Uses (eleventh edition) Clyde P. Stickney, Roman L. Weil
    South-Western Publishers, 2005

    This widely respected financial accounting text focuses on presenting clearly both the basic concepts underlying financial statements and the terminology and methods that allow students to interpret, analyze, and evaluate actual corporate financial statements. This edition contains many new features, such as greater emphasis on analysis of statement data by users, cash-flow coverage, self-study and extra cases online.

  • Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis: A Strategic Perspective (fifth edition) Clyde P. Stickney, Paul R. Brown, James Wahlen
    South-Western Publishers, 2003

    The book’s premise is that students learn financial statement analysis most effectively by performing the analysis on actual companies. Students learn to integrate concepts from economics, business strategy, accounting, and other business disciplines. Text is designed for courses on financial reporting found in accounting, finance, and economics departments. Suitable for both capstone and MBA courses.

  • Globalization and the Perceptions of American Workers Matthew Slaughter, Kenneth F. Scheve
    Institute for International Economics, 2001

    While concerns about the impact of globalization on the environment, human rights, and other issues are an important part of the politics of globalization, the authors of this book argue that it is the link between policy liberalization, worker interests, and individual opinions that forms the foundation for the backlash against liberalization in the United States.

  • Guide to Presentations Mary Munter, Lynn Russell
    Prentice Hall Series in Advanced Business Communication Prentice Hall, 2001

    A concise, practical book for those who give professional presentations. It shows you how you can: relax and enhance your credibility before, during, and after your presentation; design slides to highlight key data and hold your audience’s interest; improve your nonverbal image (gestures, voice, stance); make sure your audience remembers the main points of your presentation; and become a more persuasive presenter.