15 Management
Miranda Walston
Case Studies
MIT Management Sloan School: LearningEdge by various (CC BY-NC-ND).
These business case studies fall under the headings of entrepreneurship, leadership/ethics, operations management, strategy, sustainability, and system dynamics. They are narratives that facilitate class discussion about a particular business or management issue.
Yale School of Management free cases: by various (varied licenses)
Free case studies and pedagogical materials from the Yale School of Management
Courses
Introduction to Management curated and designed by Scott van Dyk (CC BY).
This course was developed to address two primary gaps present in many introductory management courses: A focus on high level theory without immediate application for students. Examples and cases focusing on large Fortune 500 businesses with hundreds or thousands of employees, where most students in decision-making roles need to make smart decisions on a much smaller scale.
Textbooks
Developing Organizational Managerial Wisdom by Brad C. Anderson (CC BY-NC-SA).
This book presents the results of novel research into the dynamics of values, rationality, and power in organizations. Through this understanding, readers will gain insights and frameworks with which to understand the actions of others within their environment.
Emergence of a Strategic Leader by Graduate Studies, Granite State; edited by Kathy L. DesRoches, EdD and Joseph Mews (CC BY-SA).
Supplemental reading for LD823 MS in Leadership Course at Granite State College, NH.
Introduction to Management by Kathleen Rodenburg; Michael Conway; and Karley Dajka (CC BY).
This textbook has been designed through the adaptation of open-source research for the purposes of MGMT*1000. The book draws information from a variety of sources focused on providing an introductory level of content across all areas of business and management. All resources which have been used have been stated at the beginning of each chapter or recognized appropriately.
Management Communication by various (CC BY-SA).
This collections of textbooks from the Open Textbook Library covers a broad spectrum of communication types; textbook is divided into small reading sections color-coded with headings; contains videos and articles; peer-reviewed; topics on short emails, complex reports, private chats, impassioned pitches, formal presentations, and team meetings. [CC BY-SA]
Organizational Behavior by Graduate Studies (CC BY-NC-SA).
Text for MGMT805 in MS for Management at Granite State College, NH (USA).
Principles of Management by the University of Minnesota (CC BY-NC-SA).
Teaching tomorrow’s leaders the basics of management through a lens of strategy, entrepreneurship, and active leadership. As of January 2024, this resource has had 1.5 million page views, 884,000 visitors and 26,000 downloads.
Principles of Management for Leadership Communication by [authors removed at request of original publisher] (CC BY-NC-SA).
This textbook from the Univ