Business and management education has an important impact on business practice throughout the world. To a very large extent, possession of the MBA degree is a passport into the upper reaches of management, and CEOs of many major corporations have earned an MBA. It is a reasonable inference that the education received by these leaders and managers during their MBA experience has an important impact on the way that businesses throughout the world are led and managed and that major corporate decisions are made. The heart of the MBA education is the curriculum, and curriculum design is perhaps...

Business and management education has an important impact on business practice throughout the world. To a very large extent, possession of the MBA degree is a passport into the upper reaches of management, and CEOs of many major corporations have earned an MBA. It is a reasonable inference that the education received by these leaders and managers during their MBA experience has an important impact on the way that businesses throughout the world are led and managed and that major corporate decisions are made. The heart of the MBA education is the curriculum, and curriculum design is perhaps...

This volume is a milestone toward developing a more comprehensive understanding of corporate financial performance. The authors review both the factors that cause the financial performance of some firms to be better than others at a point in time and also those factors that influence the trajectory of firm financial performance over time. In addressing these issues, the book considers theoretical and empirical work on financial performance, drawn from several literatures, as well as presenting empirical results. The goals of the book are to improve the understanding of firm financial...