About Business Book Summaries

Business Book Summaries (BBS) provides comprehensive, concise summaries of the best business books available. Using stringent criteria, only the top business books published each year are selected to be summarized.  More than 260 summaries are produced each year…that’s one each business day.  The BBS Library includes more than 1,000 summaries of the top business books from the last 20 years, and is constantly growing.   The summaries are available in a range of formats, from text to PDF to MP3 to to PDA. 

BBS summaries are created by a dedicated team of professionals. The author’s key points are presented, and the content of the book is compressed into comprehensive and concise summaries. BBS includes the following subject areas: Business Biographies, Business Strategy, Customer Satisfaction, Diversity, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Global Business, Human Resources, Innovation, IT/Internet, Leadership, Major Works, Management, Marketing, Personal Growth, Productivity, and Social Responsibility.

Corporate learning teams use BBS in their leadership development programs as a valuable learning content resource, designed to close competency gaps and improve overall business acumen of their staff. The summaries help users meet performance improvement requirements, provide paths to career advancement, and improve soft skills such as leadership, people management and communication.  BBS summaries are SCORM compliant and are often integrated into LMS applications.  The summaries are also used in blended and informal learning programs, and are easily integrated into a wide range of intranets and learning platforms.  The EBSCO team works with our learning customers to map BBS summaries to learning competencies further enhancing the value of the summaries in the learning process.  To learn more about our Institutional Learning Capabilities, click here.

Individuals use BBS in their own, self-directed professional development, and to stay abreast of latest business thinking.  Subscribers can access the summaries on the intuitive BBS interface, leveraging the power of the award-winning EBSCOhost platform, or receive the summaries via email or RSS feeds.  To learn more about our Individual subscription options, click here.

Business Book Summaries are produced by EBSCO Publishing.  Founded in 1988, EBSCO Publishing is one of leading providers on online learning and reference solutions to companies, educational institutions and libraries throughout the world.