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Eisenhardt, Kathleen M. "Kathlenn M. Eisenhardt [entrevistada por Charles Kirschbaum]." GV-executivo 4, no. 4 (October 3, 2006): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.12660/gvexec.v4n4.2006.34406.
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Kathleen M. Eisenhardt é professora de estratégia e organização na Stanford University, EUA. A professora Eisenhardt é mundialmente conhecida por seu trabalho sobre tomada de decisão estratégica e inovação em mercados hipercompetitivos. Formada em engenharia mecânica pela Brown University, obteve seu Ph.D. pela Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Nesta entrevista exclusiva, ela fala sobre estratégias emergentes, tomada de decisão estratégica em ambientes turbulentos, gestão internacional e gestão de equipes multiculturais.
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Taylor, John B. "AN INTERVIEW WITH MILTON FRIEDMAN." Macroeconomic Dynamics 5, no. 1 (February 2001): 101–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1365100501018053.
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“His views have had as much, if not more, impact on the way we think about monetary policy and many other important economic issues as those of any person in the last half of the twentieth century.” These words in praise of Milton Friedman are from economist and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan. They are spoken from a vantage point of experience and knowledge of what really matters for policy decisions in the real world. And they are no exaggeration. Many would say they do not go far enough.It is a rare monetary policy conference today in which Milton Friedman's ideas do not come up. It is a rare paper in macroeconomics in which some economic, mathematical, or statistical idea cannot be traced to Milton Friedman's early work. It is a rare student of macroeconomics who has not been impressed by reading Milton Friedman's crystal-clear expositions. It is a rare democrat from a formerly communist country who was not inspired by Milton Friedman's defense of a market economy written in the heydays of central planning. And it is a rare day that some popular newspaper or magazine around the world does not mention Milton Friedman as the originator of a seminal idea or point of view.Any one of his many contributions to macroeconomics (or rather to monetary theory, for he detests the term macroeconomics) would be an extraordinary achievement. Taken together they are daunting:[bull ] permanent income theory;[bull ] natural rate theory;[bull ] the case for floating exchange rates;[bull ] money growth rules;[bull ] the optimal quantity of money;[bull ] the monetary history of the United States, especially the Fed in the Great Depression, not to mention contributions to mathematical statistics on rank-order tests, sequential sampling, and risk aversion, and a host of novel government reform proposals from the negative income tax, to school vouchers, to the flat-rate tax, to the legalization of drugs.Milton Friedman is an economist's economist who laid out a specific methodology of positive economic research. Economic experts know that many current ideas and policies—from monetary policy rules to the earned-income tax credit—can be traced to his original proposals. He won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1976 for “his achievements in the field of consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and for his demonstration of the complexity of stabilization policy.” Preferring to stay away from formal policy-making jobs, he has been asked for his advice by presidents, prime ministers, and top economic officials for many years. It is in the nature of Milton Friedman's unequivocally stated views that many disagree with at least some of them, and he has engaged in heated debates since graduate school days at the University of Chicago. He is an awesome debater. He is also gracious and friendly.Born in 1912, he grew up in Rahway, New Jersey, where he attended local public schools. He graduated from Rutgers University in the midst of the Great Depression in 1932. He then went to study economics at the University of Chicago, where he met fellow graduate student Rose Director whom he later married. For nearly 10 years after he left Chicago, he worked at government agencies and research institutes (with one year visiting at the University of Wisconsin and one year at the University of Minnesota) before taking a faculty position at the University of Chicago in 1946. He remained at Chicago until he retired in 1977 at the age of 65, and he then moved to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.I have always found Milton and Rose to be gregarious, energetic people, who genuinely enjoy interacting with others, and who enjoy life in all its dimensions, from walks near the Pacific Ocean to surfs on the World Wide Web. The day of this interview was no exception. It took place on May 2, 2000, in Milton's office in their San Francisco apartment. The interview lasted for two-and-a-half hours. A tape recorder and some economic charts were on the desk between us. Behind Milton was a floor-to-ceiling picture window with beautiful panoramic views of the San Francisco hills and skyline. Behind me were his bookcases stuffed with his books, papers, and mementos.The interview began in a rather unplanned way. When we walked into his office Milton started talking enthusiastically about the charts that were on his desk. The charts—which he had recently prepared from data he had downloaded from the Internet—raised questions about some remarks that I had given at a conference several weeks before—which he had read about on the Internet.As we began talking about the charts, I asked if I could turn on the tape recorder, since one of the topics for the interview was to be about how he formulated his ideas—and a conversation about the ideas he was formulating right then and there seemed like an excellent way to begin the interview. So I turned on the tape recorder, and the interview began. Soon we segued into the series of questions that I had planned in advance (but had not shown Milton in advance). We took one break for a very pleasant lunch and (unrecorded) conversation with his wife Rose before going back to “work.” After the interview, the tapes were transcribed and the transcript was edited by me and Milton. The questions and answers were rearranged slightly to fit into the following broad topic areas:[bull ] money growth, thermostats, and Alan Greenspan;[bull ] causes of the great inflation and its end;[bull ] early interest in economics;[bull ] graduate school and early “on-the-job” training;[bull ] permanent income theory;[bull ] return of monetary economics;[bull ] fiscal and monetary policy rules;[bull ] use of models in monetary economics;[bull ] use of time-series methods;[bull ] real business-cycle models, calibration, and detrending;[bull ] natural rate hypothesis;[bull ] role of debates in monetary economics;[bull ] capitalism and freedom today;[bull ] monetary unions and flexible exchange rates.
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Shortliffe, Edward H. "Medical Informatics Training at Stanford University School of Medicine." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 04, no. 01 (August 1995): 105–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1638025.
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Abstract:Stanford University School of Medicine has offered graduate degrees in medical informatics since 1982. Located approximately 50 kilometers south of San Francisco near the city of Palo Alto, the university offers both MS and PhD degrees, combining research training with formal course requirements in clinical information sciences, bioinformatics, computer science, decision science, basic biomedicine, health economics, and social and ethical issues. Requirements are adapted to the varying backgrounds of trainees. Graduates of the program work in a variety of capacities, although the majority have sought careers in academia or in industrial research settings.
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Claybaugh, Craig C., and Peter Haried. "Professional Social Network Participation of Business School Graduates." International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change 5, no. 1 (January 2014): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijissc.2014010101.
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Social networks are having a profound impact on how professionals communicate and connect with each other. Online professional social networks have become a significant resource for building and maintaining invaluable business connections. Recent university graduates are a particular population often in search of building social networks to further professional development. Participation in online social networks provides a valuable tool for recent university graduates to create and sustain their professional connections and business relationships. This paper seeks to gain a better understanding of the effect university (nationally ranked, large urban, and regional), gender and degree type (undergraduate and graduate) has on online professional social network participation. The authors' business school college graduate findings suggest that university, degree type, and gender were associated with the likelihood of joining the online professional social network LinkedIn. An analysis of the results and future research directions are presented.
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Colander, David, and Arjo Klamer. "The Making of an Economist." Journal of Economic Perspectives 1, no. 2 (November 1, 1987): 95–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.1.2.95.
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As economists, we have an interest in and individual knowledge of the initiation process that turns students into professional economists. However, other than anecdotal evidence, very little in the way of data exists. This paper is a step toward providing insight into that process. We obtained our data from questionnaires distributed to graduate students at six top-ranking graduate economic programs -- University of Chicago, Columbia University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and Yale University -- exploring who current graduate students are and what they think about economics, the economy, and graduate school. The 212 respondents were relatively equally divided by year of study. We followed up our survey with a series of interviews. Certain results seem unambiguous and worth repeating. Specifically, there is a significant variety of opinions among graduate economics students and among the schools in the survey, and there definitely seems to be a Chicago school of economics. There are also tensions between the emphasis on techniques and the desire to do policy-oriented work. Students believe that what leads to success in graduate school is techniques; that success has little to do with understanding the economy, nor does it have much to do with economic literature. We hope that this information leads to discussion within the profession of whether this focus is good or bad.
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Rojanadilok, Thanisorn, and Viroj Daraviroj. "The Effect of Content Marketing on Decision Making of Graduate School of Business Administration in Thailand." Journal of Education and Vocational Research 9, no. 2 (April 7, 2019): 27–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.22610/jevr.v9i2(v).2795.
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This study was an investigation of undergraduate student use content marketing to decision to study in the graduate school of business administration in Chonburi, Thailand. The graduate education prepares students for research in professional program.In2019, there is a lot of connection among people through the use of information and can leverage social media marketing to enhance their programs. The performance of the workplace offers the persons who graduate in graduate education level. The educators need content marketing to decision making to study in graduate school of business administration in Thailand. This study was qualitative research by In-depth interview of 30 bachelor degree’s people which three people from each district in Chonburi, Thailand. The research has significant in the website’s content, and facebook’s content of graduate school of business administration. The factors influence to apply to study in master and doctoral degree were the graduation programs, cost of attendance, graduation degree, location of the campus, university reputation, alumni, and current students opinion to graduate school.
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Huang, Peter H. "Adventures in Higher Education, Happiness, And Mindfulness." British Journal of American Legal Studies 7, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 425–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2018-0008.
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Abstract This Article recounts my unique adventures in higher education, including being a Princeton University freshman mathematics major at age 14, Harvard University applied mathematics graduate student at age 17, economics and finance faculty at multiple schools, first-year law student at the University of Chicago, second- and third-year law student at Stanford University, and law faculty at multiple schools. This Article also candidly discusses my experiences as student and professor and openly shares how I achieved sustainable happiness by practicing mindfulness to reduce fears, rumination, and worry in facing adversity, disappointment, and setbacks. This Article analyzes why law schools should teach law students about happiness and mindfulness. This Article discusses how to teach law students about happiness and mindfulness. Finally, this Article provides brief concluding thoughts about how law students can sustain happiness and mindfulness once they graduate from law school.
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John, Kose, and Joshua Ronen. "Information Structures, Optimal Contracts and the Theory of the Firm." Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance 5, no. 1 (January 1990): 61–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0148558x9000500106.
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We are grateful for comments made by participants at the Symposium on the “Measurement of Profit and Productivity: Theory and Practice,” on December 16, 1988, in the University of Florida, cosponsored by the Vincent C. Ross Institute of Accounting Research, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, the Public Policy Research Center, Graduate School of Business, University of Florida, and The Kruger Center of Finance, Jerusalem School of Business Administration, Hebrew University; at workshops at the Leonard M. Stern School of Business, New York University; at the Accounting Research and Education Center of McMaster University; at the European Accounting Association meeting in Stuttgart, Germany; at workshops at Wharton School University of Pennsylvania; University of California at Berkeley; Northwestern University; French Finance Association Meeting.
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Pacheco Romero, José, and Oscar Alejandro Castillo Sayán. "In Memoriam. Emilio Marticorena y Carlos Battilana: un recuerdo de valiosos miembros del Comité Editorial de Anales." Anales de la Facultad de Medicina 76, no. 4 (January 9, 2016): 457. http://dx.doi.org/10.15381/anales.v76i4.11418.
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Dr. Emilio Pimentel Achilles Marticorena (1928-2007) was born 20 May 1928, in Villa de Arma in the province of Castrovirreyna, located 3700 m.s.n.m. His studies the school held at the Salesian College Huancayo and Alfonso College Ugarte in Lima. I study medicine at the National University San Marcos (San Marcos), obtaining Bachelor's degree in 1955 with the thesis entitled "Probable influence of great heights in determining the ductus arteriosus: Observations in 3000 school high "and subsequently received the title of Surgeon. He made graduate studies in the US. UU., cardiology at the University of Stanford (1961-1963), University Pennsylvania (1963 and 1964) and Center Presbyterian Medical in San Francisco, 1968; and later in the Institute Cardiology of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1974.
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ECKELBARGER, KEVIN J. "Obituary Nathan Wendell Riser (1920–2006)." Zoosymposia 2, no. 1 (August 31, 2009): 21–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.2.1.5.
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Professor Nathan Wendell Riser died at his home in Swampscott, Massachusetts on Wednesday July 26, 2006 at the age of 86. He was known to his colleagues as “Pete” and to his graduate students as “Doc.” He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1920 where he completed secondary school in 1937. After attending the University of Utah for three years he transferred to the University of Illinois, Champagne, where he earned his B.S. degree in zoology in 1941. He enlisted in the military in 1942 and served as a Navy Corpsman in the Navy Medical Corp where he saw action in the Pacific Theater of WWII. He was discharged in 1945 and entered graduate school at Stanford University where he conducted research at the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California. He earned an M.S. degree in 1948 and a Ph.D. in 1949 on the biology of tetraphyllidean cestodes associated with sharks and rays (“The morphology and systematic position of some little known Tetraphyllideans”) under the direction of Prof. Tage Skogsberg.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Stanford University. Graduate School of Business"
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Andrag, H. W. "The relationship between selection test results and performance of students at the University of Stellenbosch Business School." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80763.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2005.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Business schools, businesses and prospective students will benefit from an indication of prospective MBA students’ likelihood of success in their studies. This study examines the relationship between GMAT and SHL selection tests and performance of students at the University of Stellenbosch Business School. The aim is to establish the feasibility of using models derived from the selection tests in order to identify students who are unlikely to succeed. It was found that variables analyzed in GMAT and SHL numeric and verbal tests as well as the SHL OPQ 32-test correlate significantly with weighted average marks on the MBA programme. Significant correlations were also found between GMAT and SHL numeric and verbal tests and the marks obtained in subjects with high failure rates. Different variables correlate significantly with weighted average marks depending on the mode of study. Said correlations were however found to be too weak to build a model to predict, with accuracy, the performance of a student based solely on the results of selection tests. Adding the subject Computer Literacy strengthens the models to the extent that discriminant analysis can identify many of the students whom would be expected to fail. Prediction efficiency of discriminant models is however not high enough to allow its sole use as basis for exclusion of prospective students. Linear models could not predict any of the students who failed to achieve a weighted average mark of 50% or above. Linear regression models could however explain 27.8% to 52.6% of variability in weighted averaged depending on the method of study and selection test taken. Linear regression and discriminant models can thus be used as part of a judgement based selection process or as a basis for the provision of guidance to individuals, it is however not suitable for use as sole measure in admissions decisions.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Besigheidskole, besighede en voornemende studente sal baat vind indien hul ‘n indikasie kan kry van die waarskynlikheid van ‘n voornemende student se sukses. Die studie ondersoek die verhouding tussen GMAT en SHL toetse en prestasie van studente aan die Universiteit van Stellenbosch Bestuurskool. Die doel was om vas te stel of dit wesenlik is om modelle, wat van die toelatingstoetse afgelei is, te gebruik om studente wat waarskynlik nie sal slaag nie, te identifiseer. Daar is gevind dat veranderlikes in die GMAT en SHL numeriese en verbale toelatingstoetse sowel as die SHL OPQ32 toets wesenlik korreleer met die geweegde gemiddelde punt vir die MBA program. Wesenlike korrelasies is ook tussen GMAT en SHL numeriese en verbale toelatingstoetse en die punte behaal in vakke met hoeë druipsyfers gevind. Verskillende veranderlikes korreleer op ‘n wesenlike vlak met geweegde gemiddelde punte afhangende van die metode van onderrig. Bogenoemde korrelasies is egter nie sterk genoeg om ‘n model te bou, suiwer gebaseer op toelatingstoetse, wat met akkuraatheid die prestasie van ‘n student kan voorspel nie. Deur die vak Rekenaargeletterdheid by te voeg kan die model sodanig versterk word dat diskriminante analise baie van die studente wat sou druip, kon identifiseer. Die voorspellings effektiwiteit is egter nie hoog genoeg om diskriminante modelle as enigste basis vir die weiering van studente te gebruik nie. Lineêre regressie modelle kon nie enige van die studente wat gedruip het identifiseer nie. 27.8% tot 52.6% van ‘n variansie in geweegde gemiddelde punt kan egter deur lineêre regressie modelle voorspel word, afhangende van die metode van onderrig en toelatingstoets wat geskryf is. Lineêre en diskriminante modelle kan gebruik word as deel van ‘n oordeel gebaseerde keuringsproses of as basis vir die voorsiening van raad aan individue. Dit is egter nie geskik vir gebruik as enigste keuringsmaatstaf nie.
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Henning, Johanita Magdalouise. "The perceived impact of an MBA degree on the salary and career progression of a graduate of the University of Stellenbosch Business School." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97330.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In most developing economies, and in South Africa in particular, students’ perceptions, motives and attitudes towards the Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) have increasingly become a topic of interest to researchers and academics. Given the high number of students registering to study towards an MBA degree each year, this research assignment aimed to investigate and illuminate the perceived impact of an MBA degree from the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) on salary and career advancement. Data was collected through a carefully designed and structured questionnaire. Supplemented by a comprehensive literature review, the study applied descriptive and inferential statistical procedures along with various tools of analysis to analyse the perceived effects of the USB MBA degree on its students’ income and career advancement. The general perception among MBA graduates was that an MBA degree might help them achieve a major breakthrough in their career path and long-term advancement, accompanied by an increase in income. A further perception was that the reputation of an accredited business school would get them rewarding job opportunities at reputable organisations.
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Engelbrecht, Johan. "Impact of the Social Engagement Project on the 2013 full-time MBA cohort of the University of Stellenbosch Business School." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97321.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The University of Stellenbosch Business School integrates environmental, social responsibility and corporate governance teaching in all its MBA courses. In 2012, it also introduced a stand-alone course, Business in Society, to improve students‟ knowledge of these topics and improve their decision-making ability. To enhance the course further, a social engagement project was piloted with the 2013 full-time cohort. The aim of the research paper is to determine the impact that the Social Engagement Project had on the participating students and to make recommendations for improving future engagements. The research method employed was content analysis of the reflective essays that the students wrote on assessing the course. Only essays for which permission was obtained from the students were used in the research. The success of the engagement in terms of experiential learning was firstly determined in relation to the Kolb learning cycle and literature regarding specifically service-learning. The impact on the students was then measured against Bloom‟s taxonomy, specifically focusing on the affective domain. Lastly, the effect the theory of planned behaviour was used to determine the influence the engagement had on the behavioural intentions of the students. From the content analysis it was determined that as an experiential learning engagement the project was a success In terms of Bloom‟s affective learning domain the learning dimension achieved by most students was the organisation dimension. Considering the limited duration of the course, this can be deemed a success. Two of the three independent determinants in the theory of planned behaviour that could be analysed, namely perceived behavioural control and attitude towards behaviour, were both positively influenced by the engagement. From a theoretical point of view, the Social Engagement Project could therefore be deemed a success. Areas for improvement that were however identified relate to students original motivations for choosing their projects that were not met. The main reason for this was very high initial expectations that were never congruent with the time available for projects. This factor can have a negative effect on the future behavioural intentions of the students, and the writer therefore proposes that the expectations of students be managed in order to obviate these shortcomings. The analysis of student recommendations revealed three main themes requiring attention, i.e. appropriate project identification, better time allocation, and improved support from faculty. Using these themes and the information learnt from the content analysis, final recommendations were made.
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Williams, Judy Anne. "An evaluation of the information literacy education of MBA students at the University of Stellenbosch Business School." Thesis, UWC, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/3233.
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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBiblThis study investigates the effectiveness of the information literacy education that Master of Business Administration (MBA) students receive at the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB). The literature reveals that there is a growing trend worldwide to extend information literacy education to include graduate students. The study uses the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Information Literacy Standards for Higher Education Competencies as the theoretical framework together with Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process. Both process and formative evaluation was used in the study. A mixed method approach was applied to gather data for the study using a pre- and post-information literacy questionnaire, interviews with the information literacy facilitator and the research methodology lecturer and a rubric assessment of students’ group assignment. The information literacy intervention focuses mainly on ACRL Standard 1, with more emphasis on ACRL Standard 2. ACRL Standards 3, 4 and 5 were briefly mentioned as it was difficult to cover all the ACRL Standards adequately within a once-off information literacy session. The results of the study show that the information literacy intervention was successful in introducing students to some of the electronic resources which is one of the major objectives of the intervention. Students’ scores in the pre- and post-information literacy questionnaire and the group assignment were high. This could be an indication that the information literacy intervention was a success. The interviews with the information literacy facilitator and the research methodology lecturer reveal that little collaboration between the library and business academics is taking place. This lack of collaboration affects the quality of the information literacy education in terms of business academics input in the information literacy intervention and in terms of reinforcing information literacy outcomes in students’ assignments. One of the recommendations is that collaborative relationships should be developed between the library and business academics in order to develop an information literacy plan that will fully integrate information literacy within Masters’ courses.
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Dehnicke, Dorothee Christine. "An analysis of the University of Stellenbosch Business School personal leadership development journey and camparing it with recent literature on adult learning theory." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95668.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This work provides a comprehensive overview of the theories on adult learning. For each approach, the applicability for a leadership development programme is discussed. If available, examples for the use of a certain theory in a leadership course as part of a Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme are provided. An overview of the Personal Leadership Development Journey (PLDJ) of the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) is provided. The structure of the programme demonstrates the application of certain adult learning theories. Interviews with the alumni of the programme show how successfully the adult learning theories are practised and to what extent students have found them useful. Gaps in these interviews are pointed out with reference to the theories on adult learning. As an example, there is a certain body of literature on transformative learning as a subcategory of adult learning. In this case, two different theoretical approaches are explained, of which one is a more general discussion on adult learning and the other is focused on leadership development. Then an example of the application of this theory at the Institut Européen des d’Administration d’Affaires (INSEAD) shows how other business schools employ the theory in practice. In this case, the practical example is a leadership course as such, not a general MBA programme. The reason for this is that examples which match the situation at the USB exactly can not always be found. In the interviews, alumni of the USB were asked how the PLDJ impacted their professional and their private life. So indirectly, students were asked if a transformative learning process had taken place and how they would describe it. The analysis of the results is used to point out the strength of the programme as well as gaps, which could be addressed for future improvement.
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Lambert, P. B. "Factors contributing to the delay of MBA research reports at the University of Stellenbosch Business School : an exploratory study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95597.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.The MBA programme at the USB comprises two main parts, namely coursework and a research report. Students need to successfully complete both in order to graduate; however, a percentage of students are unsuccessful in that they either a) fail to complete the coursework as well as the research report, or b) successfully complete the coursework but fail to complete the research report. Those in the first category manage to cut their losses by preventing further expenditure of resources; however, those in the second category risk failure after full investment of time and money. The USB has seen an increase in the number of students from the second category; it is an undesirable outcome which needs to be addressed at the institutional and individual level. This research report aims to assist the USB in gaining more insight into this problem, and in addressing it effectively. Since the students themselves are pivotal in the MBA research phase, the research for this report took the form of live, in-depth interviews with MBA students at the USB who have successfully completed their coursework, but have not submitted their research report. The semi-structured interviews were based on themes highlighted in the literature on academic non-completion and delay. The most prominent contributing factors identified, were: a) inadequate preparation for research, which impacted on self-efficacy, i.e. the student’s belief in his/her own research competence; b) student motivation levels, which are influenced by the lack of intrinsic motivation to study, and by perceiving the research report to be irrelevant to their goals; c) timing of topic choice, which some felt came too early and did not allow an informed choice, and which others felt came too late and reduced the research time; and d) the lack of structure and deadlines during the research phase, which was problematic given the students’ expressed need for external pressure to prioritise the research report. In the light of the above factors, suitable recommendations are made on how the USB could address the problem.
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Dhawan, Anuj. "Motivation factors for online buying the price driver : a dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty of design and creative technologies, AUT University, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland, New Zealand, 2008." Abstract. Full dissertation, 2008.
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FEHLAUER, DENIS KONRADO. "PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO, PRODUÇÃO ACADÊMICA, INTERDISCIPLINARIDADE E SOCIALIZAÇÃO DO CONHECIMENTO: A PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA DO GRANDE ABC À LUZ DO PNPG 2011-2020." Universidade Metodista de Sao Paulo, 2016. http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1536.
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The objective of this investigation was to verify whether before autonomy and vocation that people have, as well as the possibility to receive government support and incentives, Universities within the great ABC area in São Paulo State, Brazil; meet the recommendations of the current PNPG (National Post Graduation - Graduate School - Plan). Therefore, fifty-eight dissertations and one thesis on applied social sciences published between 2011 and 2014 under the following educational institutions were analyzed - Universidade Metodista de São Paulo - UMESP (São Paulo Methodist University); Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul - USCS (São Caetano do Sul University); Universidade Federal do ABC - UFABC (ABC Federal University, and Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial - FEI (Industrial Engineering College). The analysis was performed in the realm of four axis; two in the organizing PNPG 2011-2014 axis: the third axis was - the perfection of evaluation and its expansion into other system CT&I segments (Academic background for graduate school students directed toward extra academic activities and the business/corporate segment); and the fourth axis - the multiple and interdisciplinary factors between the main graduate school characteristics and important topics of research (such as promoting, by means of programs, concentration areas and research lines, the convergence of themes and problem sharing, opposing to its mere association or overlapping). The present study - qualitative, bibliographic, documental, exploratory, descriptive, state of knowledge type - was developed through a documental research method and categorial thematic content analysis. Data collecting was performed through digital repository of thesis and dissertations kept on internet base platforms by the Universities which scientific production was investigated. After data analysis, it was clearly demonstrated that approximately 68,96% of the scientific production in the applied social sciences, published by the Greater ABC Universities, between 2011 and 2014, correspond to the current PNPG expectations on regards to the constant recommendations of the third axis. In regards to the recommendations written in the fourth axis, we can see that around 31,03% of the selected research work meet the expectations of the Plan, presenting in its structure, according to the theoretical foundation used in this study, interdisciplinary characteristics
O objetivo desta investigação foi verificar se, diante da autonomia e vocação que possuem, bem como da possibilidade de receber amparo e incentivos governamentais, as universidades pertencentes à região do Grande ABC atenderam as recomendações feitas pelo PNPG vigente. Para tanto, foram analisadas cinquenta e sete dissertações e duas teses da área de ciências sociais aplicadas, publicadas no período entre 2011 e 2014, pelas seguintes instituições: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (UMESP); Universidade Municipal de São Caetano do Sul (USCS); Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC) e Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial (FEI). Essa averiguação se deu ao redor de dois eixos organizadores do PNPG 2011-2014: o terceiro eixo – o aperfeiçoamento da avaliação e sua expansão para outros segmentos do sistema de CT&I (formação de pós-graduados voltados para atividades extra-acadêmicas/setor empresarial) e o quarto eixo – a multi e a interdisciplinaridade entre as principais características da pós-graduação e importantes temas da pesquisa (promover, por meio de programas, áreas de concentração e linhas de pesquisa, a convergência de temas e compartilhamento de problemas em oposição à sua mera associação ou sobreposição). Este estudo – qualitativo, bibliográfico, documental, exploratório, descritivo, tipo estado do conhecimento – se desenvolveu por meio de pesquisa documental e de análise de conteúdo temático categorial. A coleta de dados foi feita por meio dos repositórios digitais de teses e dissertações mantidos na internet pelas Universidades, cuja produção científica foi investigada. Após a análise dos dados ficou demonstrado que aproximadamente 68,96% da produção científica da área de ciências sociais aplicadas, publicada pelas universidades do Grande ABC, no período entre 2011 e 2014, corresponde às expectativas do PNPG atual no que diz respeito às recomendações constantes no terceiro eixo. Em relação às recomendações feitas no texto do quarto eixo, vemos que aproximadamente 31,03% dos trabalhos selecionados atendem às expectativas do Plano, apresentando em sua estrutura, segundo a fundamentação teórica utilizada neste trabalho, características de interdisciplinaridade.
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Hung, Pei-Yu, and 洪佩玉. "THESIS FOR EXECUTIVE MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES ALETHEIA UNIVERSITY." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49230773790204968908.
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This paper is to investigate the effects of boards structure, financial derivatives trade on information transparency（change in information transparency）by logit regression model（multinomial logit regression model）. 1900companyies in Taiwan Stock Exchange and Over The Counter are chosen as research objects. The resultants show that director chair or director hold CEO concurrently （financial derivatives trade）will result to less information transparency（less information transparency）, and ownership of directoe system for（outside directors ownership）, The less information transparency is Additionally, boards size（ownership of board of directors）will enchance the effects of financial derivatives trade on increase in information transparency.The results of this paper Can be used as a reference materical for the Taiwan goverent to promote corporate goverence mechanism and for the Taiwan investors to make a investment decision.
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Shiau, Shih-Ting, and 蕭詩婷. "The Study of Related Influencing Factors in Graduate School of Business and Management Selective - In Case of Graduating Students in University." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36249733463940571700.
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Recently, the domestic graduate schools uninterrupted increasing. In a competitive graduate school’s market, it is very important for the managements in university how to attract students and to understand students choose graduate school’s influence factors. Past researches have indicated that awareness, consideration, and choice set have a important influence that students select a school. This study is about .products selling in the past. A topic for discussion in choosing school is less. In the past students search information for entering a higher school about universities and vocational high schools, but A topic for discussion in choosing a graduate school is less. The study of associated influencing factors in graduate school choice for university students are including：information sources in graduate school、the successive set size about a consumer making decisions、factors of influences in choosing school、and factors of demographic statistics. Students get about a graduate school’s information form information. At this time a graduate school’s information enter students’s awareness set, according to dissimilar factor’s influence and sift some plans enter consideration set, and then in consideration set’s plans, according to estimate standards myself and delete some plans, and the remainder incorporated in choice Set. Factors of influences in choosing school are including：living、learning、employment、and prestige approach. They have influence for the successive set in consumer decision model. The program takes shape lastly and develops a graduate school choice model through the framework. In this study, senior of college students are research targets for questionnaires. The Information’s analysis include Cronbach’s α and factor analysis. About selecting relationship of school’s factor and school set use LISREL linear structure model to test and verify. The results can be concluded as the following，Students get the source of information from personal sources. In selecting relationship of school’s factor and school set, students attach more importance to living approach that have more small set of choosing school；attach more importance to learning approach and have evidences that it show awareness set and consideration set more big so choice Set is not notable；attach more importance to employment approach and have evidences that it show awareness set more big so consideration set and choice Set is not notable. Student attach more importance to prestige approach and have evidences that it show awareness set more big but consideration set more small so choice set is not notable. The school of managers should emphasize how to form a part of choice set in student’s mind and the school will increase the chosen opportunity by students. I hope the results providing for enrolling students.
Books on the topic "Stanford University. Graduate School of Business"
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Shidanfo de yin se zi dan: Qiu xue, zhi chang, ai qing, yu ren sheng de mi mi wu qi. Taibei Shi: Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2005.
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Peter, Robinson. Snapshots from hell: The making of an MBA. London: Brealey Publishing, 1994.
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A delicate experiment: The Harvard Business School, 1908-1945. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business School Press, 1987.
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Kelly, Francis. What they really teach you at the Harvard Business School. New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc., 1986.
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J, Kelly Francis. What they really teach you at the Harvard Business School. New York, NY: Warner Books, Inc., 1986.
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Ewing, David W. Inside the Harvard Business School: Strategies and lessons of America's leading school of business. New York, N.Y: Times Books, 1990.
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Mark, J. Paul. The empire builders: Inside the Harvard Business School. New York: W. Morrow, 1987.
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Au coeur de la Harvard Business School: Leçons et strategies de la meilleure business school. Bruxelles (Belgique): De Boeck Université, 1992.
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Mutiny on the Harvard bounty: The Harvard Business School and the decline of the nation. [Mansfield, Ohio?]: Elderkin Associates, 1996.
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Reding, Colleen. "Stanford Graduate School of Business." In Grad's Guide to Graduate Admissions Essays, 109–11. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003235361-27.
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Tiwari, Parul, and Mayank Sharma. "Requisites and Provocations for Admissions in B Schools." In Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership, 112–33. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9073-6.ch008.
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In Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, the most selective B-school in the U.S., 94 of every 100 applicants will be turned down. Harvard Business School will rebuff 9 out of every 10 applicants. Although increasingly becoming the “Mecca of the young,” global professional, let's just say that business school is not everyone's cup of tea. Admission committees are meeting huge challenges to make hard and often painful choices for jittery candidates. MBA/PGDM admissions are more art than science. It is a methodology that gives more weight to the ability of an institute to add value, rather than merely perpetuate the brand myth. More importantly, B-schools are incorporating processes and systems that have become the norm in various industries. For example, Alliance Business School, Bangalore, has embarked on an ambitious plan to implement PCMM (people capability maturity model), used in the software industry. Under this, all processes—from admissions to career mapping to interfacing with stakeholders—have been identified and key metrics have been developed and implemented.
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Prystupa, Kaja, and Omar Luethi. "Development of Knowledge and Skills with Case Method." In Business Education and Ethics, 407–23. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-3153-1.ch022.
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The aim of this chapter is to analyze the application of two different variations of the case study method at different levels of education programs in reference to the development of knowledge and skills. Based on theoretical foundations the authors share good practices of their own experience as educators at HSO Business School in Switzerland and Kozminski University in Poland. Both institutions face different challenges created by different institutional settings. These reach from pre-experienced undergraduate and graduate student group in a traditional University setting in Poland to part-time students with several years of work experience in higher vocational education in Switzerland.
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Browne, Dallas L. "James Lowell Gibbs Jr." In The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology, 1–14. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042027.003.0001.
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This chapter focuses on the life and accomplishments of James Lowell Gibbs Jr. Browne discusses Gibbs’ family background and early life, his educational journey in obtaining a PhD, and the influence of Eslanda Robeson in sparking his interest in anthropology. Gibbs went to Cornell University and attended Harvard University for graduate school. Gibbs conducted research on traditional law among the Kplelle in Liberia. Gibbs spent much of his professional life as a professor at Stanford University and retired in 1997.
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"Back to the future A look at information deliveries Graduate School of Business Leadership, Pretoria, University of South Africa." In Make or Break Issues in IT Management, 289–321. Routledge, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780080510682-19.
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Schindler, Thomas E. "The Pathway to Bacterial Genetics." In A Hidden Legacy, 15–30. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197531679.003.0003.
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This chapter reviews Esther Zimmer’s early training, as she set out on a parallel career pathway, from Neurospora to bacteria, to her future husband Joshua Lederberg. While still a junior at Hunter College, Zimmer found the best possible mentor in Bernard Ogilvie Dodge, the foremost expert in Neurospora, the new model organism of genetic research. After graduation, Dodge helped her gain further research experience at the Industrial Hygiene Research Laboratory in Bethesda, Maryland, where she worked with Alexander Hollaender, an expert in radiation biology. After two years of training in the procedures for developing X-ray and UV induced mutations, Zimmer acquired her bona fides for graduate school. She was accepted to graduate school at Stanford University because of Dodge’s association with George Beadle, who, with Edward Tatum, had developed a new paradigm for biochemical genetics: “one gene: one enzyme.” In 1946, their similar experiences in Neurospora research brought Joshua and Esther together.
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Keller, Morton, and Phyllis Keller. "The Professional Schools." In Making Harvard Modern. Oxford University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195144574.003.0010.
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Harvard’s nine professional schools were on the cutting edge of its evolution from a Brahmin to a meritocratic university. Custom, tradition, and the evergreen memory of the alumni weighed less heavily on them than on the College. And the professions they served were more interested in their current quality than their past glory. True, major differences of size, standing, wealth, and academic clout separated Harvard’s Brobdingnagian professional faculties—the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Medicine, Law, and Business— from the smaller, weaker Lilliputs—Public Health and Dentistry, Divinity, Education, Design, Public Administration. But these schools had a shared goal of professional training that ultimately gave them more in common with one another than with the College and made them the closest approximation of Conant’s meritocratic ideal. Harvard’s doctoral programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) were a major source of its claim to academic preeminence. As the Faculty of Arts and Sciences became more research and discipline minded, so grew the importance of graduate education. A 1937 ranking of graduate programs in twenty-eight fields—the lower the total score, the higher the overall standing—provided a satisfying measure of Harvard’s place in the American university pecking order: But there were problems. Money was short, and while graduate student enrollment held up during the Depression years of the early 1930s (what else was there for a young college graduate to do?), academic jobs became rare indeed. Between 1926–27 and 1935–36, Yale appointed no Harvard Ph.D. to a junior position. The Graduate School itself was little more than a degree-granting instrument, with no power to appoint faculty, no building, no endowment, and no budget beyond one for its modest administrative costs. Graduate students identified with their departments, not the Graduate School. Needless to say, the GSAS deanship did not attract the University’s ablest men. Conant in 1941 appointed a committee to look into graduate education, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., “called for a thoroughgoing study without blinders.
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Freeland, Richard M. "Transformation of the Urban University: Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern, 1945–1972." In Academia's Golden Age. Oxford University Press, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195054644.003.0012.
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Boston’s three local, private, teaching and service-oriented, commuter universities—Boston University, Boston College, and Northeastern, classic urban universities in the years before World War II—undertook to change themselves in fundamental ways during the golden age. B.U., reaching back to its nineteenth-century origins, sought to re-create itself as a comprehensive regional and national university. Boston College, drawing on the ancient academic traditions of the Society of Jesus, worked to become the nation’s top Jesuit university and a leading force in Catholic intellectual and professional life. Northeastern, with its philosophical roots in service to the low-income population and business community of Boston, tried to balance its historic concerns with a new impulse toward national prominence in cooperative education. All three invested heavily in graduate education and research, and B.U. and B.C., in upgrading their undergraduate student bodies, shed their identities as local, service-oriented campuses. At the end of the period, only N.U. remained centrally committed to the functions of an urban university, though it, too, had taken steps to reduce its emphasis on local service. Boston’s three nonelite, private universities were hit hard by World War II, but campus leaders were conscious of predictions that the return of peace would bring a new period of expansion. By the middle of the war, Presidents Marsh of B.U. and Ell of Northeastern and the provincial Jesuit hierarchy that governed B.C., frustrated by fifteen difficult years, were turning their attention to postwar opportunities. Throughout the war, Marsh later wrote, “we kept getting ready” to “jump quickly” after the fighting stopped. Ell was equally eager. “When the war is over,” he wrote in 1943, “Northeastern will be prepared.” The senior president among the universities of Massachusetts, B.U.’s Marsh was in his middle sixties during World War II and was determined to make concrete progress toward his institutional goals in the short period in office remaining to him. Since his appointment in 1926, he had emphasized three aspects of B.U.: its religious heritage as a non-sectarian, Methodist university with a strong School of Theology; its public-service role as a diversified educational resource for the Boston area; and its academic possibilities as one of the nation’s largest universities with a full range of graduate and professional programs.
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Blagov, Yury Evgenievich, and Yulia Nikolaevna Aray. "Educational Programs in Social Entrepreneurship." In Research Anthology on Business and Technical Education in the Information Era, 868–83. IGI Global, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-5345-9.ch048.
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The chapter presents a review of Russian and international experience in implementing educational programs in the area of social entrepreneurship. The authors analyze the specifics of the emergence and development of these programs, which reflect the dualism of the essence of social entrepreneurship. The chapter provides a classification of programs on the global market of business education by their types and forms of implementation. The authors list the peculiarities of education in the sphere of social entrepreneurship in Russia. They examine, in detail, the complementary professional in-service training program called “Project Management for Social Entrepreneurs,” which is administered in the Graduate School of Management at St Petersburg State University with the support of the Citi Foundation since 2012. They conclude that it is important to teach business leaders attending MBA/EMBA programs to help them shape social entrepreneurship competencies aimed at creating shared value.
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Prystupa, Kaja, and Omar Luethi. "Development of Knowledge and Skills with Case Method." In Case Studies as a Teaching Tool in Management Education, 104–20. IGI Global, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0770-3.ch006.
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The aim of this chapter is to analyze the application of two different variations of the case study method at different levels of education programs in reference to the development of knowledge and skills. Based on theoretical foundations the authors share good practices of their own experience as educators at HSO Business School in Switzerland and Kozminski University in Poland. Both institutions face different challenges created by different institutional settings. These reach from pre-experienced undergraduate and graduate student group in a traditional University setting in Poland to part-time students with several years of work experience in higher vocational education in Switzerland.
Conference papers on the topic "Stanford University. Graduate School of Business"
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Ishii, Kosuke, Sun K. Kim, Whitfield Fowler, and Takashi Maeno. "Tools for Project-Based Active Learning of Amorphous Systems Design: Scenario Prototyping and Cross Team Peer Evaluation." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-86492.
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Whereas team project-based learning of engineering design has attracted wide acceptance, it is still rare to see a curriculum that addresses high level societal needs involving diverse students with a wide range of practical experience. Such a curriculum should develop a shared understanding of the use of scenarios for amorphous products and a process to objectively evaluate the project progress while the design concepts mature. This paper describes two key tools that respond to these challenges: 1) scenario prototyping and 2) cross-team project scorecarding. These tools evolved through a collaborative curriculum development of Keio University, MIT, and Stanford in the development of the Active Learning Project Sequence (ALPS), a capstone experience for Keio’s new Graduate School of System Design and Management (SDM). ALPS selected a theme from the “Voice of Society,” according to which the project teams generated solution scenarios, identified requirements, and described the proposed system using appropriate prototypes of not only hardware but other amorphous means as well. The twelve ALPS teams in 2008 addressed the theme “Enhancing the Lives of Seniors in Japan,” which led to more specific scenarios. The paper gives an overview of the ALPS workshop sequence, and describes in detail two key learning modules that were essential in integrating the multi-disciplinary teams: a) scenario prototyping and b) cross-team project scorecarding. These methods are going through further trials in Stanford’s own Design for Manufacturability curriculum involving 10 project teams in the US and Japan.
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Cerimagic, Sabina, and Priya Khanna. "Transforming assessment – Critical reflections around resolving tensions between assessment for learning and of learning." In ASCILITE 2020: ASCILITE’s First Virtual Conference. University of New England, Armidale, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14742/ascilite2020.0143.
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Current assessment and progression policies and practices in higher education are largely dominated by dichotomy between formative and summative assessments. Given assessments are major drivers of learning, such as dichotomous assessment systems which promote the learning that can only be tested via summative assessments and falls short in fostering complex graduate attributes - such as interdisciplinary competencies. Medical programs, across the globe are now embracing emerging concepts such as programmatic assessment that allows the assessments to serve ‘for, of and as’ learning. Given the most challenging curricular reform in any field, including Business is reforming assessments, this paper critically reflects on how emerging concepts such as programmatic assessment are promising in resolving the tensions created by dichotomy of assessment for vs as learning. The reflections are based on rapid scoping review of programmatic assessment in Medical education, as well as authors’ familiarity with implementation of programmatic assessment in the Sydney Medical School renewed curriculum. There are many lessons that can be learned and carried over from the University of Sydney Medical curriculum to the Business education space.
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Zable, Jack, and Derek Reamon. "An Innovative Approach to Creating, Developing, and Delivering a New Course Entitled Global Engineering." In ASME 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2007-41109.
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In 2005, the Industry Advisory Council (IAC) of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU) began a discussion about the subject of outsourcing engineering offshore and the possibility of teaching a course to prepare mechanical engineering students for this environment. This in turn, led to the formation of a committee and a series of discussions and recommendations for the content for such a course. The ad-hoc committee comprised of a few IAC members, a few M.E. department design faculty members, and some faculty from the business school. The original course covered the following topics: engineering economics, creating product requirements and specifications, identifying the core competencies of a company, project management, developing a business plan, supply chain logistics/management, intellectual property, understanding cultural and language differences, team dynamics, communication, and creativity. This broad array of subject matter dictated that the course be taught in a non-conventional manner. A team of instructors, comprised of two mechanical engineering professors, two business school professors, three engineers and two businessmen from industry, who are intimately involved with outsourcing, and a patent attorney were assembled to teach different portions of the course. The students also participated in a hands-on outsourcing term project. The class was broken up into ten teams, with each team developing a product in conjunction with a company from India. Each team submitted a set of specifications for a unique product to the offshore company. The company designed the product and produced an approved CAD drawing. After student approval, the company manufactured a prototype of the product, and shipped it to the respective team for analysis. Each team then presented a report on their outsourcing experience, their testing results, and a financial analysis for the product. The class was comprised of mechanical engineering senior and graduate students, with a few students from other engineering disciplines and the business school. Based upon course surveys, this course was very well received by the students and provided an important introduction to business. The semester project proved to be a valuable tool for the students to obtain some direct experience with outsourcing.
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Miller, Amy L., and Alyson Stegman. "Clearing the Way: Using Turbines to Reclaim or Remediate Acid Mine Drainage." In ASME 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2006-14775.
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Pennsylvania has a long history of coal mining. Unfortunately, it has left many scars. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) is looking at the potential of using micro hydro turbines in acid mine drainage streams. They hope to make it profitable for business to "clean-up" the streams by providing seed money to initiate the hydro turbine projects. It is believed that businesses can profit from both the energy created by the turbines and the extraction of the acid mine drainage (AMD) minerals. The minerals and concentrations vary with each stream. Some possess precious metals, others contain minerals that are used in paint pigment, and still others are being researched for use in powder metallurgy. The paper outlines an undergraduate research project done at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. The study is to create a comprehensive diagnostic spreadsheet to be used by the PA DEP to determine viable economical turbines based on waterway conditions. The study has parallel phases: one addressing issues related to turbine parameters and a second dealing with waterway variables. Also to be discussed in the paper is the use of the project as an undergraduate research study for technology students. For students interested in research or graduate school, it is immensely important to introduce them to research. By guiding them through the process they are better prepared for their future.