Our study focuses on the effect of personality type and personality preferences measured by the Myers–Briggs typology, on higher education students' choice of profession and on their academic performance. We statistically analyzed a sample from two slightly similar bachelor majors studied at...

Data Table and Chart tools in Microsoft Excel provide data visualization. Incorporating Data Table and Chart into finance teaching not only helps students understand finance concepts intuitively and more efficiently, but also sharpens students' Excel skills and thus makes them more marketable in...

Students are introduced to the concepts of sustainability reporting and the latest trend, integrated reporting, by playing the role of an active jury member on the judging panel for the Best Belgian Sustainability Report Award. Through the reporting practices of Telenet, a Belgian...

Technological advancements in the means of production are the driving force behind the changes in the prevailing system of socio-economic relations. Feudalism was transformed into capitalism as a result of such advancements. While man obtained physical freedom, the financial freedom remained...

The James Fund at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Lally School of Management is a small, recently established, course-driven student managed investment fund. The findings of this case study seek to provide insight to new and existing funds in improving individual fund operation and structure....

Instructors and researchers have used the ‘flow' of knowledge (post-test score minus pre-test score) to measure learning in the classroom for the past fifty years. Walstad and Wagner (2016) and Smith and Wagner (2018) move this practice forward by disag- gregating the flow of knowledge and...

As shown by Tversky and Kahneman (1991), framing an outcome as a loss causes individuals to expend extra effort to avoid that outcome. Since classroom performance is a function of student effort in search of a higher grade, we seek to use loss aversion to encourage student effort. This field...

The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate how a basic microeconomic framework can be enhanced and adapted to the analysis of market disruption, a la Christensen. It illustrates how the comparative static analysis of undergraduate microeconomics offers a credible and accessible path for...

Italian Abstract: Nel caso di una filiera verticale di produzione in cui siano necessari forti investimenti di capitale fisso in qualche segmento ci si chiede quale sia la composizione di forme di mercato più efficiente dal punto di vista sociale (soluzione integrata del pianificatore sociale)...