Business Book Summaries ®

Summaries of the Best Business Books

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About Business Book Summaries
Business Book Summaries® (BBS) extracts the key concepts
of the best business books, enabling executives &
managers to quickly and easily keep abreast of the
latest in business intelligence & trends.

Following a rigorous selection process, expertly-written

summaries are created for the top business books
published each year in the U.S. The BBS library currently
offers coverage of more than 700 leading business
books from the past 20 years, with new summaries
added weekly.

Why choose Business Book Summaries?

The latest and most relevant business thought is found in business books.
However, readers often find it difficult to identify the key concepts in
those books, let alone devote the time needed to read them. BBS’s concise
Subject Areas Covered
summaries present the author’s key concepts to busy professionals whose Summaries are grouped according to relevant
desire to learn is abundant, but whose available time is scarce. Using BBS subject areas addressing all aspects of business
summaries, readers discover the key concepts sooner, and retain the skills development:
information longer.
n Business Biographies n Innovation
Corporate learning professionals use BBS summaries to augment leadership
n Business Strategy n IT/Internet
development programs, close competency gaps and improve the overall
business acumen of their managers, directors and executives. n Customer Satisfaction n Leadership
n Diversity n Major Works
The Business Book Summaries Advantage:
n Economics n Management
As part of a BBS subscription, EBSCO provides customized assistance to
incorporate the summaries into a corporation’s specific learning program, n Entrepreneurship n Marketing
such as: n Finance n Personal Growth
n Customized mapping of select BBS summaries to corporate learning Global Business
n n Productivity
objectives/competencies
n Human Resources n Social Responsibility
n Targeted reading programs for all levels of leadership
n Continuous mapping of new content to existing learning objectives
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For Each Book, Business Book Summaries Provides:
100-word 300-word 600-word
Introduction Brief Summary Detailed Summary

4,500-word
Comprehensive Summary featuring:
— Detailed synopsis of main themes
— Analysis of key concepts
— Critical content evaluation
— Suggestions for related reading within BBS
— Complete Readers’ Guide including a Table
of Contents, determined reading time and
suggestions for optimizing the value of the book
— Author biographies and links to author Web sites
— Links to publisher and book purchasing Web sites

Sample page of a Business Book Summaries

Audio Summaries – BBS now offers users
an opportunity to listen to an audio version of the
full summary for a growing number of top busi-
ness books, available for listening and download
in MP3 audio format.
Information for Administrators
BBS makes it easy for administrators to customize the BBS
homepage and track user activity:
n Monitor individual or aggregate user activity
n Create direct links to recommended BBS summaries
n Add corporate branding to the BBS homepage
n Provide an unlimited number of users withdirect access to BBS
with an enterprise subscription
Comprehensive Summary
Customer Testimonial
“Mapping select summaries from Business Book
Summaries to Pacific Gas & Electric’s leadership
competencies has been a tremendous help in
integrating the BBS content into our Leadership
Development Initiative at PG&E. Their proactive
customer service and support gives us the feeling
that they are actually part of the team.”
Brett Knight
Leadership Development & Workforce Planning
Pacific Gas & Electric

Contact EBSCO Publishing to learn how your

organization can benefit from Business Book Summaries.
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