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Business Calculus with Excel
Mike May, S.J. & Anneke Bart · Saint Louis University
This text is intended for a one semester calculus course for business students with the equivalent of a college algebra prerequisite. Rather than being a three-semester engineering calculus course that has been watered down to fit into one semester it is designed for the business students.
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Project Management for Instructional Designers
David Wiley · LibreTexts
Project Management for Instructional Designers is a textbook about project management tailored specifically for instructional designers, intended for use in graduate programs in educational technology. This book is based on a pre-existing openly licensed textbook which was donated to the commons by a benefactor that desires to remain anonymous, and has been collaboratively revised and remixed by faculty and students at Brigham Young University.
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EQ: The Competitive Edge in Project Management
Ravi Ravikumar · De Anza College
The book introduces emotional intelligence at a practical level to project managers. People-related issues are the most unpredictable factor in any project, and the better equipped the project manager is, the better the chances of success. Students learn the value of emotional intelligence by reviewing over a dozen real-life case studies from inter- and intra-company projects. In a classroom setting, the case studies help create a collaborative learning experience through in-class interactions.
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BMT 1650: Customer Service 2021)
Perry and Benbow · Prince George's Community College
This text examines the dynamics of exceptional customer service. Develops skills necessary in dealing with customers effectively, using creative techniques to improve communication skills to achieve customer satisfaction.
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Business Plan Development Guide
Lee A. Swanson · University of Saskatchewan
This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan. It follows a unique format that both explains what to do and demonstrates how to do it.
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BUS 105/LAW 105: The Legal Environment of Business
James C. Harman · Santa Ana College
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Organizational Culture
Mabel Gehrett · Western Technical College
This text examines employee engagement in the workplace to improve morale and foster a positive, productive work environment. It highlights effective business communication and the impact of culture on organizational effectiveness.
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Business Law I Sourcebook (Mac Kelly) - UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Matthew L. Mac Kelly · Concordia University Wisconsin
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BMK 2730: Retail Business Management
Milledge Mosby Jr. · Prince George's Community College
This text provides an overview of retail business, including types of businesses, their organization, retail buying, selling, advertising, and merchandising.
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Strategic Management
Elijah Cooks · Prince George's Community College
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The Business Ethics Workshop
Anonymous · LibreTexts
Ethics is about determining value; it's deciding what's worth doing and what doesn't matter so much. Business ethics is the way we decide what kind of career to pursue, what choices we make on the job, which companies we want to work with, and what kind of economic world we want to live in and then leave behind for those coming after. There are no perfect answers to these questions, but there's a difference between thinking them through and winging it.
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Business Communication Skills for Managers
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
The text introduces important elements of successful communication, providing examples of effective communication and providing students opportunities to practice the same. The course covers the essentials of communication including professional writing, visual aids, presentations, speeches, phone and online communication, and both getting hired and finding new hires.
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Speaking, Listening and Pronunciation Projects for ELLs - Intermediate Level
Brittany Zemlick · Grossmont College
This textbook was designed to support a pronunciation class; however, it could be used in any intermediate-level speaking and listening class.
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Criminal Law: An Integrated Approach
Alice Ristroph · Brooklyn Law School
Criminal law seems familiar, but the apparent familiarity can be misleading. Media or cultural depictions of criminal law are often inaccurate and these depictions won’t teach you to practice law or to pass a bar exam. This book does pursue those goals, and others. It seeks to give you an understanding of American criminal law that will be useful whether you practice in this field or a different area of law, and indeed, an understanding that will be useful even if you do not practice law at all.
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Business Writing for Everyday Use
HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College
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FIN 4430: Professional Foundations - SIE Companion
Andrew Carr · Aurora University
This open educational resource supports FIN 4430: Professional Foundations by providing a structured, student-friendly companion to core Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) topics. The text emphasizes professional reasoning, ethical decision-making, and applied understanding of capital markets, financial products, trading mechanics, and regulation. It is designed to supplement course readings and instruction rather than replace them, and it includes career-aligned framing, learning outcomes, an
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Guidelines for Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors of Nonprofit Organizations
Murray & Harrison · University at Albany and University of Victoria
The purpose of this book is to help boards of directors of nonprofit organizations improve their performance after completing the online board self-assessment tool found at www.boardcheckup.com. However, it can also be used as a stand-alone resource for any board seeking to enhance its effectiveness in that it also contains the diagnostic questions on which the online tool is based.
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Fundamentals of Business
Northeast WisconsinTechnical College · Fundamentals of Business
This text explores the business environment; global business; ethics and social responsibility; types of business ownership; entrepreneurship; role of management: operations management; human resources; marketing; managing financial resources and legal issues impacting business.
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SWC Business Calculus
Karen Cliffe · Southwestern College
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Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice
Digital Education Strategies · The Chang School
This book provides business leaders with the tools and knowledge needed to effectively enable digital accessibility in an organization through cultural change, raising awareness of its importance, and equipping employees with the specific tools and knowledge they need to address digital accessibility as part of their everyday work.