Project Management, Binder Ready Version: A Managerial Approach

Shafer, Scott M.,Mantel Jr., Samuel J.,Meredith, Jack R.

ISBN 10: 1118947029 / ISBN 13: 9781118947029

Published by Wiley, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Project Management, Binder Ready Version: A Managerial Approach
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118947029
• ISBN 13: 9781118947029
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Designed for project management courses for business students, Project Management: A Managerial Approach, 9th Edition Binder Ready Version guides students through all facets of the steps needed to successfully manage a project.  The authors’ managerial perspective addresses the basic nature of managing all types of projects as well as the specific techniques and insights required for selecting, initiating, executing, and evaluating those projects. This text is an unbound, binder-ready version.

About the Author

Jack Meredith is Professor of Management and Broyhill Distinguished Scholar and Chair in Operations at the Schools of Business at Wake Forest University. He received his undergraduate degrees in engineering and mathematics from Oregon State University and his PhD and MBA from University of California, Berkeley. Prior to his teaching career he worked for Ampex Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Douglas Aircraft Company, and TRW Systems Group. He has also consulted for the National Research Council (Washington), the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Sciences (Cincinnati), Illinois Institute of Technology, Digital Equipment Corp., Aluminum Co. of America, Warner-Amex, Spectrum Publishing, Educational Testing Service (of Princeton), Industrial Technology Institute, Cincinnati Milacron, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, and John Wiley & Sons. He was Director of Operations and Industrial Management at the University of Cincinnati from 1976-1995 before moving to Wake Forest University. He has co-authored five textbooks for college classes: Operations Management for MBAs (Wiley), Quantitative Business Modeling (South-Western), Project Management: A Managerial Approach (Wiley), Operations Management: A Process Approach with Spreadsheets (Wiley), and Project Management in Practice (Wiley). He is currently the founding and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Operations Management Research, was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Operations Management from 1994-2002, and was the production/operations management series editor for John Wiley & Sons, Inc.