Abstract

GLOBIS

GLOBIS is one of Japan's leading business schools and the spark that ignited the MBA boom.
In addition to the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS operates corporate human resource development services, venture capital business, and publishing/electronic publishing business.

Tsuyoshi Shimada

Director of GLOBIS Publishing Bureau, Professor, Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University
Tsuyoshi Shimada graduated from the University of Tokyo with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science from the same university. Over the years, he has made various observations on "thinking mathematically" and "working with numbers."
He is the author of "MBA Quantitative Analysis," "LIVE: Accounting Classroom," "KPI Compendium," and others. He has also authored and co-authored numerous other books.

（Information is current at the time of publishing.）

Author’s Information

GLOBIS is one of the largest business schools in Japan. The author has taught at GLOBIS and its predecessors for over 25 years. He has felt too many businesspeople lost money because they could not think mathematically. So he wrote this book to encourage them to relearn the fundamentals of mathematics.

Advantages of using mathematics in business
1. Better decision making
2. Better prediction of the future
3. Less likely to be deceived by others

Being a business school teacher, he was able to write this "really useful" book on basic math. He carefully explains the stumbling points.