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Here are 32 books that have been recommended for the MBA. Were recommended as most textbooks, and some additional reading for different subjects, so the list is variadilla. I have selected those considered best and / or that will be interesting to more people.

It is useful to read to learn business concepts, discover the latest in a field, review what you already know, or to create a small library of training in your company ( are also great on the shelf in your home to make pictures in front and look like a great guru, haha …). As an investment, have a huge return: of all the ideas that thou shalt bring forth a book, you simply fix something, you value it generates is much higher than the price of the book. I put in the title of each book link Amazon U.S. where you can find more comments from other readers, and more information (in English).

If you live in Spain, buying in the U.S. have the advantage that the dollar is very cheap, 1USD = 0.65 EUR. You can also browse and buy at Amazon UK: come before, but usually cost a little more, and have so many books. If you look for the book in Spanish, La Casa del Libro is usually a translation, as well as Madrid shop or IE the multitude of technical and business libraries. What I like about the foreign editions is that they tend to be older, generally more expensive at least in the cases before us, and run the risk of being a professional translation is not to worsen the text, is rare but it happens. You know what the “traduttore, traditore” and I say what I like to translate I hope you find it interesting if you are looking for information on business books.

To me it is a subject that fascinates me, but as you see some are not exactly cheap, and its size are hard to read in bed before sleep.

The whole time I’ve been studying and learning through practice how to develop an internet business, I realized that the main thing is the continuous learning.

Learn how to be a businessman is accomplished with action and lots of reading. Therefore in this section will be all the books that have helped me throughout my life to improve my attitude and ultimately learn how to be an entrepreneur.

The first thing we have to face is the paradigm of the entrepreneur: an entrepreneur thinking that need much capital, inherit a business or have been born for business-minded. These are all desirable attributes but in most cases are not innate, so it is necessary to break these paradigms. Anyone with enough desire to start a business can do so provided you are willing to continuously learn and create the habits of the entrepreneur.

The books recommended here have been read and applied by most of the great entrepreneurs of our time and have set a standard at the time to learn how to be an entrepreneur.

The site publishes inc.com business specializing in the list of best selling business books and recommended for every entrepreneur, leader, professional, general manager or CEO should read.

1. The advantage of happiness.
Shawn Achor, Crown Business Achor.
Recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that happiness is the fuel of success and not vice versa. Achor identifies seven practical principles that show how to take advantage of happiness to improve performance and maximize potential.

2. 2.0 Strengths
Tom Rath, Gallup Press.
The author starts from the premise that most people spend their careers trying to improve their weaknesses instead of working on your strengths.
This book includes a unique access code to an assessment 34 line identifying talent. The test results highlight the five most important talents with practical actions to help you develop them.
In short, a guide to optimize their talents to help you find the perfect balance for you and the people in your organization.

3. Empowerment
Josh Bernoff, Ted Schadler, Harvard Business School Press.
Is your company authorized to success? His aides are armed with cheap, accessible technology, connect with customers and are creating innovative solutions. Who are these creative problem solvers? How can it be? How can I drive? The authors call them heroes of the organization: highly skilled workers and technological resources. Read the rest of this entry »

Even at the height of the Web, the texts are effective change management practices and implement innovations. But it is difficult to find a compass in the new festival. The vision and advice for authors, publishers, booksellers, and entrepreneurs.

Hidden behind wealthy parents, and others brought cheese consumption volumes quickly and neglect guaranteed business books are valuable for business people. The question is finding the above, without drowning in the sea of ​​fads and gurus.

Among the many inhabitants of the “business book world,” the editor is a vital player (though invisible, to paraphrase The Little Prince). Because its function of bringing supply and demand, interpret trends and build a consistent catalog, you can mark-and form-to entire generations of authors, booksellers and readers.

Jorge Scarfi has embodied this figure by more than 30 years, ever since its inception very close to the business genre. After a pause in the 90-years when he chose to publish fiction authors, decided to return to the roots after the crisis of 2001, with the editorial topics.

The publisher is not sure, but speaking of trends rather than titles. Scarfi interpreted, since the collapse of Wall Street, in 2008, is a paradigm shift and, therefore, required reading: “What was known as ‘good management’, which favors only the cost / benefit analysis and forget the human and environmental consequences, was in crisis after the last crack. ” Explain that today, more than the tools, prioritize ends: “The economy must serve people, not the reverse, as Amartya Sen puts it.” The editor refers to the Indian Nobel Laureate in Economics 1998, co-authored with Argentine Bernardo Kliksberg first book-people. Read the rest of this entry »

The economic and business issues have ceased to be of interest to a select group to become everyday affair, an item linked to everyday professionals, housewives, students and curious people who need to learn about factors that influence their lives, especially when you start a project in mind or undertaking.

To get a clearer idea of what happens in the business world, some scholars make their contributions to publications that are enjoyable and interesting for those with advanced knowledge, as for the general public.

The following is a selection of 10 best books of business, a good topic to start in 2011:

1. The art of choosing
This title refers readers to the practice of taking decisions, focused as an art. The author raises the questions of how choices are made, and how people feel with the election, and raises some amazing views over the decision. Read the rest of this entry »

The day after it was announced the winner of the Man Booker Prize, the prize for best book of fiction written in English, Julian Barnes won this year with his book The Sense of an Ending, we must not forget that they announced the finalists for the best business books of 2011, the Financial Times, international financial and economic newspaper, and Goldman Sachs, the investment bank.
We are in the seventh year of the award and the finalists are:

Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System Professor of Economics and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, Barry Eichengreen, the title makes clear the subject matter.

Good Strategy / Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters of strategy professor at UCLA Anderson School of Management at Univera of California, Los Angeles, Richard Rumelt, talking about the good and bad business strategy.

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty professors of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, talking about the development of poorer countries.

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World of the president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Daniel Yergin, talking about the future of energy linked to security in the world.
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, Happier and Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Edward Glaeser, talking about the development of the modern city and its impact.

Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore at Our Peril Obvious the businesswoman of the Web, Margaret Heffernan, speaking of psychology and how it impacts our decisions.
The selection committee this year consists of the following group of people:
Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times and chairman of the Committee.
Vindi Banga, Partner of private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
Arthur Levitt, former chairman of the U.S. stock market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management at London Business School.
Mario Monti, president of Bocconi University in Milan, and President European Trilateral Commission.
Jorma Ollila, Nokia Chairman and the oil company Shell, Shriti Vadera, director of Shriti Vadera Ltd, an independent director of mining company BHP Billiton and pharmaceuticals, AstraZeneca.

This group of eminent persons chosen to mention the short list and are responsible for selecting the winner. The ceremony and dinner will be in London on November 3, 2011, when he announced the winner.

During the month of April, the outstanding credit of commercial banks to one trillion alsector privadoascendio 831.500 million, which represented an expansion of 9.7%, the Bank of Mexico (Banxico).

This balance 419.600 million pesos were allocated to consumer credit, which also saw an increase of 11.1%.

Meanwhile, the housing credit was 371.700 million, ie an increase of 5.4%.

Meanwhile, lending to non financial corporations and individuals with business activities had a balance of 967.300 million, ie an increase of 9.8% while the balance of credit granted to non-bank financial intermediaries stood at 73.000 million pesos, with a variation of 27.9%.

The Banxico explained that in the reference month, the balance of the financing granted by commercial banks was two billion 836.000 million, increasing 13.6%.

This funding, awarded to the private sector was a billion 997.300 million, a 70.4% share of the total, in addition to an increase of 8.8%.

The balance of funding for states and municipalities amounted to 217.300 billion pesos, registering a 12.1% variation, while the balance given to the public sector amounted to 536.800 billion pesos, an increase of 29.5% .

The financing by development banks in the fourth month of the year presented a balance of 426.200 billion pesos and its growth was 4.2%.

Of this amount, 209.000 million pesos corresponded to funding channeled to the private sector, with a 49% of the total, registering a decrease of 3.8%.

Funding to states and municipalities reported a balance of 56.200 billion pesos, presenting a reduction of one percent, while the public sector was given to 108, 300millones pesos, implying an increase of 24%.

International business is the study of the transactions that take place abroad to meet the needs of individuals and organizations. These economic activities are commercial operations, as in the case of export or import goods, direct investment of funds in international companies.

About 80% of direct investment is done by the 500 largest companies in the world, representing more than half of international trade. Thus, the study of international business is primarily focused on the activities of multinational or transnational corporations based in one country but operating in another. These organizations represent the majority of investment and trade worldwide.

Only in the last ten years, this type of corporation has directly invested billions of dollars overseas to buy or build businesses. Most of these investments are in two ways: the U.S. spends in the European community and this in turn makes the United States, Japan invests in U.S. and this country does in Japan, so do U.S. investments States and Canada.

In recent years multinational companies have begun to focus on developing countries, many of whom have broken with Communism. Eastern Europe, for example, starts to become an attractive market for investment as governments sell to private industries.

Another method that focuses on international business is that of joint venture or joint venture is an agreement between two or more partners to own and manage an international business.

The role of small business

International businesses are not restricted to giant multinational companies. Many small businesses are also in this market. They include service industries, traditionally considered the economies and business services sector’s small and low business impact. Read the rest of this entry »

The event’s purpose is to provide a broad view of how to do international business successfully, and was attended by teachers Usha Haley and George Haley who taught at Harvard University and is specialized researchers on issues of business competitiveness and economic situation of the Asia who presented his book “New Asian Emperors” which explains how and why companies working with Chinese techniques continue to dominate the region and have extended their reach in this Asia, despite the financial crisis and the Asian SARS last decade.

In his presentation, Usha Haley also talked about how the Chinese government attaches illegal subsidies to producers of glass, which penalizes U.S. producers as well as Latin Americans. Currently, the U.S. Congress Haley discusses the proposal to reach agreement on this issue with the Chinese government.

On the other hand the book “The Age Microglobal” Simon Levy-Dabbah, representative of the Advisory Board of the Trade Practices Unit of the Ministry of Economics and Director of the firm LatinAsia dedicated to strategic planning and implementation of business in Asia and Latin America. In his book, Levy shows how those of us who have lived the last twenty years on earth, we suffer from a singular phenomenon in which memory is short, and events increase, there is more information and less analysis, more supply and less ability to decide, many business plans and few real enterprises. He said it is time to harness the technology we have at our disposal to do successful business quickly without large investment or risk of loss.