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Olson, Jodi; Shannon, Kimberly – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2023
This teaching brief presents a capstone project designed to provide students with a contextual understanding of introductory management accounting theories through hands-on, experiential learning. It also exposes them to cross-disciplinary roles from operations management. Using this capstone approach, students quickly learn to prepare financial…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Introductory Courses, Accounting, Business Administration Education
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Anand, Tej; Mitchell, Daniel – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2022
Many higher education institutions have responded to the significant shortage of professionals with strong analytical expertise by offering graduate programs in business analytics and data science. These programs are typically designed to be practitioner focused and many of them offer a Capstone course that gives students the opportunity to…
Descriptors: Business Education, Capstone Experiences, Experiential Learning, Graduate Students
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John Levendis; Nuwan Indika – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2025
Business analytics is a fast-growing field that requires a combination of technical, analytical, and communication skills. This article aims to identify the most sought after skills for business analytics jobs based on a content analysis of over 2600 online job postings. The results show that the top skills include analytics, communication,…
Descriptors: Business Skills, Data Analysis, Content Analysis, Occupational Information
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Roethlein, Christopher J.; McCarthy Byrne, Teresa M.; Visich, John K.; Li, Suhong; Gravier, Michael J. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2021
This article describes a required capstone course for students in the Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) Program at Bryant University, designed to prepare students for a career in supply chain management. Student teams work on semester-long projects for locally and regionally based companies. The projects are supported by all GSCM faculty who…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Business Administration Education, College Students, Required Courses
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Inouye, Todd M.; Kling, James A. – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2020
This paper introduces a novel supply chain role-play activity designed to improve ethical awareness and pricing negotiation decisions in business capstone courses. Participants negotiate prices between five levels of an international coffee supply chain: Farmers, Processors, Importers, Roasters, and Retailers/Cafés. Using results from 141…
Descriptors: Negotiation Agreements, Supply and Demand, Role Playing, Class Activities
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D'Souza, Derrick E.; Daspit, Joshua J.; Sigdyal, Pratigya – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2019
The use of clickers in the classroom has been linked to student learning. However, studies that examine the effects of clickers on learning often conceptualize a clicker exercise as a single, homogeneous cognitive processing (CP) event. We offer a conceptualization of sequenced cognitive activities that unfold during a clicker exercise. An…
Descriptors: Capstone Experiences, Audience Response Systems, Learning Processes, Cognitive Processes