Well-documented corporate demands for crossfunctionally competent employees have instigated a wide variety of efforts by the educational community to integrate business curricula. Many colleges and universities struggle to functionally integrate business programs that historically have been...

Ohio UniversityÕs MBA program is designed according to the principals of problem-based learning. The curriculum has no courses. Rather, it is organized around problems like those the students will encounter after graduation. Pre- and post-program assessments are used to measure changes in...

Today, communication skills are among the most popular content areas in employee training. This survey of training managers examined the status of communication training in businesses and identified the lessons and opportunities for business communication faculty. Results indicated that...

This paper studies how the working capital position of small firms responds to changes in the level of economic activity. Fifty small firms were studied for the time period 1980-1991. The findings from this study showed that liquidity increased slightly for these firms during economic expansion...

Poison pill securities can be used to deter takeover activity by making the acquisition cost prohibitive or to increase bargaining power of target firms. Poison pills, which are also known as shareholder rights plans, are typically used in conjunction with other takeover defense mechanisms, such...

This study investigates the effects of CEO succession on the stock and Þnancial performance of large publicly held corporations over the years 1977-1994. Using a market signaling framework, this study examines how the stock market responds to the expected Þnancial performance of the Þrm at...

Moving a business college to commit to a total quality service approach is much more difficult than the literature suggests. The commitment to customer satisfaction is the essential focus of total quality service. It is unlikely to occur in business colleges. While small incremental change is...

Abstract According to the Chronicle of Higher Education (2001), 15 percent of entering freshmen believe that there is a good chance they will change their college major and 8 percent are undecided. To gain insight into the criteria that students use to select a major, a model of the student...

An empirical study was conducted to investigate predictors of computer anxiety among undergraduate college business students. The effects of academic major, computer-related experience, gender, and ACT scores on computer anxiety were investigated. The results indicate significant differences in...

This research examines the ability of firms to utilize the existing primary U.S. metal futures markets in decreasing variability of spot metal positions. The focus of the analysis is on those twenty-one U.S. cash metals listed in the Wall Street Journal which have an intrinsic relation with (at...