The Fast Forward MBA in Business

"Honesty and integrity, determination and daring, collaboration and coordination, flexibility and adaptability are characteristics required in today's business world."

"It is strategically important to know if the organization's culture is hindering it from moving ahead, from reaching its fullest potential in productivity, profitability, and performance."

"People are an organization's most important resource."

"As employees learn to collaborate more effectively, they are not only improving efficiency and quality, but they are also creating greater value for their customers."

"The ability not only to discover what customers want, but to empathize with them and gain knowledge from them is a key to success in a market-driven competitive environment."

"Having a basic understanding of essential financial concepts helps managers in every area of business make intelligent, informed decisions which contribute to profitability and lead to better performance."

"Increased financial leverage usually increases ROE, but it also has a tendency to increase risk. The trick for managers is to find the way to balance increased performance and increased risk."

"Managers must understand how the value of the corporation's stocks and bonds relate to the financial marketplace."

"Economic activity is reflected in four basic macroeconomic indicators derived from different sources: gross domestic product (GDP), industrial production, employment, and personal income."

"Microeconomics involves the supply and demand for products and provides an explanation for how prices and quantities of products are determined, and how labor and capital are used."

"Companies investing in computer technology get significant returns on their investments."

"Manufacturing is experiencing a shift toward a service orientation, toward meeting and exceeding customers' requirements by including them into the design and specification of products."

"Market-oriented planning helps the company understand the customers' perceptions of value and assists in defining the products that manufacturing will produce."

"By achieving depth in several targeted areas of competence, a company provides itself with the rich, solid ground from which innovative products and services can spring."

"With stretch goals, the energies of the organization are forced to focus on developing internally at the same time they stimulate innovative perspectives of the marketplace."

"Companies need to make sure motivations and incentives that drive individual managers and subsidiaries are aligned with the global goals of the company."