Books
The Executive MBA for Engineers and Scientists
Available from:
CRC Press Online
Amazon.com
Features
- Explains fundamental business concepts in a manner that is easy to understand
- Demystifies marketing, sales, finance, manufacturing, and accounting for technical professionals
- Reviews technical considerations including quality control, technical services, and R & D
- Illustrates how good “people skills” can bring about the symbiosis of priorities of various departments
- Tells how to work at home effectively
- Provides examples of a preferred problem solving technique
- Details how to progress upward in your career as an employee or as an owner of your own business
Summary
All too often, a simple lack of understanding of fundamental business concepts is enough to prevent capable scientists and engineers from receiving otherwise deserved promotions. These days, technical merit and hard work alone no longer guarantee upward mobility. For scientists and engineers with aspirations of moving up the corporate ladder a keen grasp of business basics is a must.
Presenting concepts in a manner that is easily accessible, The Executive MBA for Engineers and Scientists covers the business principles and applications that today’s technical managers need to know. The book touches upon all the essentials, including marketing, sales, finance, manufacturing, and accounting. It details technical considerations including quality control, technical services, and R & D and highlights how to effectively integrate business concepts with technical considerations. Examples based on the author’s experience working in the pharmaceutical industry and with the Food and Drug Administration illustrate how similar situations can occur in other industries and explain how to solve the problems using the same techniques.
This easy-reading reference not only facilitates the understanding required of today’s technical professional but also provides a time-saving reference for business men and women on the move upward in sales, marketing, and manufacturing who need to expand their knowledge of technical functions. From break-even analysis to technical quality control, this practical guide arms you with the business savvy required to walk into your next meeting with confidence and walk out with an increased sense of accomplishment.
Effective Financial Tools for Scientific Managers
Effective Financial Tools for Scientific Managers (no longer in print) was the predecessor to The Executive MBA for Engineers and Scientists.
The Placebo Effect: Counterfeit Drugs – A Crime Novel
Available from:
Amazon.com – Paperback and Kindle Editions
Summary
When Tom Keenan, Private Investigator, is hired by the CEO of a major drug company to help with “a problem,” he has no idea that this case will lead him to drug counterfeiters with international ties, hired killers, a crooked judge, and assorted government officials—some dedicated, some dishonest, and some just inept. As Tom and a team of state and local law enforcement professionals put together the widespread pieces of the counterfeit drug puzzle, they find corruption in high places and honor in the humblest places. Looming over all is the big question: “Who can we really trust?” Meanwhile, people are dying from taking counterfeit drugs that even their doctors and pharmacists don’t know are fakes.
Adverse Events
Available from:
Amazon.com – Kindle Edition
Summary
Tom Keenan is back.
The cool-headed, serious-thinking pharmaceutical chemist turned private detective finds himself deep in another sinister case, this time in the history-filled city of Savannah, Georgia.
Savannah is proud to have its first pharmaceutical firm established there, bringing prestige to the city and “creating jobs.” However, when new drugs are produced by Veritas Pharma, the patients taking them experience strange and deadly side effects known as Adverse Events.
A prominent US Senator hires Tom to look into the financial irregularities of a small Savannah pharmaceutical firm that is showing profits far out of proportion to the company’s apparent manufacturing capacity. Is this a case of money laundering or smuggling? Or worse?
While in Savannah, Tom meets and works with Detective Ryan Hathaway, University of Georgia graduate, former football player for the Bulldogs, and the youngest detective on the Savannah Police Force.
Tom discovers a trail of wrongdoing that is littered with deception, destruction, and death. But he has to prove it before there are more victims.