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Lopez, Eduardo V.; Alexander, Joe F. – Journal of Education for Business, 2023
Project Management (PM) tools and concepts are being adopted by a growing number of organizations. Consequently, numerous U.S. universities/colleges offer a wide variety of graduate degrees designed to complement existing certifications through organizations such as the Project Management Institute (PMI). This paper explores current graduate PM…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Program Administration, Higher Education, Curriculum
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Cohee, Garrett Lane – Journal of Education for Business, 2023
Accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) exemplifies a widely accepted commitment to business school differentiation both in terms of both value and quality. Business schools embarking on the initial accreditation journey must invest significant human and capital resources to achieve this goal. Given this,…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Business Schools, Human Capital, Evaluation Methods
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Calvert, Craig A. – Journal of Education for Business, 2021
An engaging assignment connecting course curriculum to student career paths was created for an undergraduate business (project management) course. The assignment required students to turn either their job search or career path into a project. Learning goals, objectives, and outcomes were developed for academic, personal, and professional growth…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Business Administration Education, Student Projects, Program Administration
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Conant, Donald D. – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The author's goals in this exercise were to use an Excel project to teach students about the effects of changing states of nature on critical path emergence as well as compare the impact of the PERT beta and triangular distributions on project completion times. Previous research into the PERT (program evaluation and review technique) beta…
Descriptors: Program Administration, Spreadsheets, Monte Carlo Methods, Program Evaluation
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Busing, Michael E.; Palocsay, Susan W. – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
Master of business administration (MBA) programs are under intense pressure to improve efficiencies, lower tuition, and offer refreshed curriculum that is of high quality and regarded as relevant by the marketplace. In light of this environment, the authors propose a conceptual framework for effectively employing operations management (OM)…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Program Administration, Program Development, Program Design
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Misra, Ram B.; Ravinder, Handanhal; Peterson, Richard L. – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The authors discuss a curriculum integration effort that a school of business piloted recently. This effort was aimed at integrating the core functions (finance, marketing, management, and operations) so that undergraduate students would better appreciate the full impact of functional decisions on each other and in achieving the corporation's…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Administration, Undergraduate Students, Integrated Curriculum