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Webinars and pre-reading

Here you will find upcoming Offer Holder webinar and materials for you to read up on to prepare you for the Durham MBA (Full-time).

MBA Offer Holder Webinars

As a Durham MBA (Full-time) offer holder, we will be in regular contact with you to provide you with information about your programme and the Business School. This will include MBA Offer Holder Webinars. 

Pre-reading 

For those students interested in undertaking some reading before the course commences in September, the following reading list has been provided by Module Leaders.

Further information will be available in due course. Please add this page to your bookmarks. 

Core Modules

BUSI4J210 Economics for Global Business

  • The Economist

Reading the Economist magazine will familiarise you with many relevant economic problems and give you some insights into how economists think – as well as alert you to many of the hotly debated topics and theories in economics. You will also start to get insights into why it is useful to managers to have a sound grasp of economics to understand the implications of economic developments and economic policy decisions on their business and its environment, as well as to use economic concepts and theories to support managerial decision making.

  • Wheelan, C. (2003/2010) Naked Economics: Undressing the dismal science, Norton, New York, ISBN 0393337642
  • Harford, T. (2007) The Undercover Economist, Abacus, ISBN 978-0349119854
  • Harford, T. (2014) The Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to run or ruin an economy, Abacus, ISBN 978-0349138930
  • Levitt, S.D. and Dubner, S.J. (2006) Freakonomics, Penguin: London

BUSI4I710 Leading and Managing People

  • Hodges, J. (2016). Managing and Leading People through Organizational Change. London: Kogan Page
  • Hodges, J. (2020) Organization Development: how organizations change and develop effectively. London: McMillan/Red Globe

BUSI4I910 Marketing

BUSI4J010 Accounting & Finance

  • Mclaney, E. and Atrill, P. (2015) Accounting and Finance for non-specialists, 9/e, Pearson
  • Vernimmen, P., Quiry, P, Dallocchio, M, Le Fur, Y and Salvi, A. (2014) Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice, 4th edn., Wiley

 

Core Theme Key Text Books

Please note, key reading for each module will be published within the module handbook on the individual online module site.