The convention and event segment represents a major part of the hospitality industry in the United States. MICE services currently account for an annual economic impact of more than $122 billion (Meetings & Conventions, 2006), making it the 29th largest contributor to gross national product...

The Department of Petroleum Engineering at Curtin University had its inception in 1998. For the last 10 years,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during...

In recent years, college and universities have relied increasingly upon the charitable contributions of its previous graduates; as the costs of tuition rise substantially, development offices are facing the challenge of creating annual fund campaigns that are minimally expensive while providing...

The question posed in this chapter is: To what extent does current education theory and practice prepare graduates for the creative economy? We first define what we mean by the term creative economy, explain why we think it is a significant point of focus, derive its key features, describe the...

Talent management can broadly be defined as the attraction, integration, development and retention of employees. Historically, many of the components of an organization's talent management strategy and tactics have been allocated in a largely isolated manner to the various specialized human...

This qualitative study takes a case study approach to exploring knowledge transfer among client-facing professionals in professional services firms. The literature review focuses on knowledge, adult learning theory, knowledge transfer, organizational learning, and measurement processes. Data...

Business education around the globe is similar in one aspect that it needs to track the economic developments and train the students with the latest models of operations. The serious faces of the education institutions come only from the high standards of the research and percolation of the same...

This study was designed to analyze the sources of revenue, revenue variability, program and personnel changes, and the fiscal soundness of six Latino nonprofit organizations (LNPOs) in three major cities in Western Massachusetts, for the period 1989 to 1992. Income variability was assessed for...