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About the Book

The book provides quantitative tools to tackle real-life problems of the corporate world. It has been designed to prepare MBA students to take a straight plunge into the streams of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research for business purposes. It is a three-in-one textbook that covers the fundamentals of these streams, and perhaps a textbook with the largest number of fully-solved case studies from diverse areas of management, like marketing, finance, HR and operations in a single volume. Its rich Appendix offers many utility tables in mathematics and statistics, and other supplementary topics that are not directly covered by the MBA curriculum, but form the backbone of their study. The book contains minimal of text as it leans heavily on explaining the concepts through application-oriented examples and solved problems. The end-of-chapter exercises have been provided with answers to all problems and hints, wherever necessary.

SALIENT FEATURES

1. Designed to be a self-study book for all levels of readers, with or without mathematical background.
2. A three-in-one textbook that covers Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research for business.
3. Contains around 650 fully solved examples, 600 exercise problems with answers and hints.
4. Contains more than 40 fully solved case studies.
5. Appendix provides supporting literature not directly covered by MBA curriculum.
6. Solutions to problems and case studies from various university question papers.
7. Strongly application-oriented.

About the Author

K B Akhilesh, Professor, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has taught HRM, OB and Technology Management. His research and academic interests lie in the development of HR skills, IT and manufacturing. As a student he has been a top ranker and was awarded gold medal for the best PhD thesis in the Faculty of Engineering, IISc. He has lectured at many universities and organizations in USA, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Belgium and Sweden; and offers a Knowledge Management course annually in Germany. As a consultant and trainer Prof Akhilesh has guided global giants like Daimler-Chrysler, Airbus Industries, World Bank, BSNL, DRDO, Siemens, ABB, HMT, BEL, HAL, WIPRO. He has helped senior managers hone their managerial skills through more than 1,000 management development programs. He has authored 7 books and published over 100 papers in refereed journals internationally. Further details on him are available at www.mgmt.iisc.ernet.in.1. It comprises a judicious mix of the fundamentals of three inter-connected quantitative disciplines of management, viz., Business Mathematics, Managerial Statistics and Operations Research. It is indeed a kind of quantitative primer and handbook on the fundamentals of Business Mathematics, Managerial Statistics and Operations Research, ideally suited for first-semester or second-semester MBA students. 2.The hallmark of the book is its reader-friendly orientation with a down-to-earth approach that smacks of unprecedented levels of simplification and exemplification, justification and demystification of many a quantitative tool in its application to address many a real-time managerial imbroglio that warrant making some critical consequential decision, in each case. 3. The textbook abounds in fully-solved examples, many of which were culled from various university question papers. It is replete with a blend of several fully-solved case studies (40+ applications) in various streams of management such as Marketing Management, Human Resource Management, Project Management, Managerial Economics, Strategic Management, Technology Management, Financial Management, Marketing Research and Operations Management, with due quantitative orientation and justification.