Use Of A Real World Business Panel To Assist In MBA Program Outcomes Assessment And Curriculum Refinement

The world of business operates in an extremely dynamic environment. Domestic issues (competition, cultural diversity, regulation/deregulation) global issues (competition, economic, cultural/social, and political), and rapidly changing technologies all require business school curricula that are designed to be flexible and proactive as well as reactive. An ever increasingly important responsibility of schools of business is the assessment of outcomes of their programs. Outcomes may be measured on several dimensions. One such measurement is the assessment of the skills/abilities of its graduates. This work will describe the efforts of a business school to engage the local business community in that undertaking

Evaluation of the Vertical Method of Toothbrushing

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MBA Student And Alumni Ratings Of Critical Skills In Graduate Business Programs

Newly matriculating MBAs, recent MBA graduates, and MBA alumni were surveyed with respect to program and curriculum issues and opinions concerning nine skills deemed to be critical for graduate business education.  At the time of matriculation, MBA students were surveyed concerning how important the skills were to them.  The students were also surveyed immediately after graduation, and asked how successful the program had been in developing these skills.  The final analysis group was MBA alumni who were asked to identify the most improved and most important skills.  Between-group comparisons of results concerning these nine skills will be presented along with other results reflecting evaluations of program attributes

The Subprime Mortgage Lending Collapse: Should We Have Seen It Coming?

The subprime mortgage lending crisis and the decline in housing values has profoundly affected the worlds’ financial markets.  Financial institutions have ceased to exist, others have come under the U.S. government’s control, the future survival of others has been threatened and the U.S. government is proposing the greatest financial rescue operation since the Great Depression.  Profound changes in the financial markets have occurred and the markets will never be quite the same again.  This paper presents the argument that this collapse should have been foreseen by tracing and comparing the development and decline in the subprime auto lending market in the 1990’s to the development and decline of the subprime mortgage lending market.   While the effects of the subprime mortgage crisis are greater and farther reaching than those of the subprime auto lending market, there is no question that the similarities are plain to be seen and that the current crisis should come as no surprise

The Great Panic of 2008: Lessons we Should Teach our Students

The fall of 2008 witnessed the greatest fi nancial upheaval since the Great Crash of 1929 and found the United States in its deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression. It was a "perfect storm" in which all sectors of our economy participated and all sectors exhibited reckless behavior. It began with the creation of the housing bubble fueled by speculation, over-spending by home buyers, excessive acquisition of household debt, the government's encouragement of home ownership and the relaxation of lending standards. The problems were then compounded by a failure to recognize risk in the housing market, the growth of systemic risk, excessive speculation by fi nancial institutions, development of fi nancial instruments that few if any fully understood, the emergence of "shadow banks" and the failure of governmental regulation. When the bubble burst the entire system came crashing down with disastrous effects that continue to plague the world's economies in 2011. This paper traces the origins of these monumental events, chronicles the events during that fateful fall and develops a number of lessons which should be taught to our students

Life-Time Earnings by Age and Level of Education

Abstract Life-time earnings patterns of individuals are an important consideration in forecasting future earnings of individuals who have losses due to personal injury or death as well as valuing the enhanced earnings due to licenses and education obtained during a marriage. This paper provides fresh evidence of how earnings change over an individual's life based on their educational level and whether these earnings have kept pace with inflation. In addition it provides some limited evidence on the issue of the stability of the age-earnings patterns over time and the possible effects of different data samples on the conclusions of previous studies

Subgingival Curettage Versus Surgical Elimination of Periodontal Pockets

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Results Following Three Modalities of Periodontal Therapy

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Longitudinal Study of Periodontal Therapy

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Radiographs in Clinical Periodontal Trials

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