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The 30 Day MBA

Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success
By Colin Barrow
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Gain all the skills you'd get from studying for an MBA in a classroom-free way and accelerate your business career in only 30 days. This internationally bestselling book distils the full insights of MBA knowledge and disciplines, providing a comprehensive and engaging guide to workplace success.... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Accelerate your career and transform your skillset with the new edition of the international bestselling guide which covers all aspects of the MBA.

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Gain all the skills you'd get from studying for an MBA in a classroom-free way and accelerate your business career in only 30 days.

This internationally bestselling book distils the full insights of MBA knowledge and disciplines, providing a comprehensive and engaging guide to workplace success. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the changing curriculums from leading business schools, considering how businesses are affected by factors such as remote work, global disruption, geopolitics, and the rise of AI. It also addresses the shift in learning to online training and the surge in microcredentials.

The 30 Day MBA covers the core 12 disciplines of knowledge from MBA courses and is supported by insightful use-cases from world-leading organisations including IKEA, Cisco, Shell, and Heinz.

Look no further than The 30 Day MBA to broaden your business skills.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781398628571

Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 September 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Kogan Page Ltd

Edition: 7th Revised edition

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 304

Collections

Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Business Strategy & Negotiation Colin Barrow Company Culture & Human Resources Non-Fiction

About the Author

Colin Barrow has lectured in business schools in the UK, the USA, Australia, the Far East and throughout Europe. A former visiting fellow at Cranfield School of Management, he is the author of the 30 Day MBA series, Financial Management for the Small Business and Starting a Business from Home and The Business Plan Workbook (all published by Kogan Page). He is based in Penzance, Cornwall, UK.

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