Boone and Kurtz's Contemporary Business has proved to be the premier introduction to business text and package, edition after edition. With each new edition, this best-selling author team builds and improves upon their past innovations, creating the most technologically advanced, student friendly, instructor supported text available. Contemporary Business 2003 is packed with innovation, giving students up-close, hands-on experience with the dynamic world of business. As the hundreds of footnotes reveal, the text is as up to the minute as publishing will allow. Instead of just offering students a glimpse of the 21st century marketplace, this updated text provides a firsthand, personal experience, enabling readers to feel the excitement of wrestling with real-world business issues.