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Educating Managers through Real World Projects

  • 1.  Educating Managers through Real World Projects

    Posted 02-08-2006 17:30
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    research on best practices around the world in using work embedded
    e-Learning, action learning, consulting projects etc. in management
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    EDUCATING MANAGERS THROUGH REAL WORLD PROJECTS

    Introduction: Project Based Management Education Best Practice
    Robert DeFillippi and Charles Wankel

    Section I: Consulting Projects

    1. Wharton's Global Consulting Practicum: Interdependence, Ambiguity, and
    Reflection
    Patricia Gorman Clifford, Wharton School of Business
    Jane Hiller Farran, Wharton School of Business
    Leonard Lodish, Wharton School of Business

    2. Project Based International Business Consulting
    C. Patrick Fleenor, Seattle University
    Peter V. Raven, Seattle University
    Jerry Ralston, Seattle University

    3. Real Real World Projects
    Mats Lundeberg, Stockholm School of Economics
    Pär Mårtensson, Stockholm School of Economics

    4. Managing Divergent and Convergent Focus of Learning in Student Field
    Projects
    Susan Adams, Bentley College

    Section II: Service Learning Projects

    5. Educating Managers through Service Learning Projects
    Karen Ayas, Rotterdam School of Management
    Philip Mirvis, Boston College

    6. Real World Transfer of Professional Knowledge: A modification to
    internship learning
    Jan Brace-Govan, Monash University, Australia
    Irene H. Powell, Monash University, Australia

    7. Creating actionable knowledge: Experimenting with service learning in a
    corporatist nonprofit regime
    Judith van der Voort, Rotterdam School of Management
    Lucas C.P.M. Meijs, Rotterdam School of Management
    Gail Whiteman, Rotterdam School of Management

    Section III: Action Learning

    8. Action Learning as a Vehicle for Management Development and
    Organizational Learning: Empirical Patterns from Practice and Theoretical
    Implications
    Lyle Yorks, Columbia University, Teachers College

    9. Action Learning for Management Development: Lessons from a Leadership
    Development Programme
    Richard T. Harrison, University of Edinburgh
    Claire M. Leitch, Queen's University, Belfast

    10. The Manchester Method: A Critical Review of a Learning Experiment
    Tudor Rickards, Manchester Business School
    Paula J. Hyde, Manchester Business School
    K. Nadia Papamichail, Manchester Business School

    11. A Management Education Model for Bridging the Academic and the Real
    World
    Eugene Baten, Central Connecticut State University
    David Fearon, Central Connecticut State University
    Cheryl Harrison, Quinnipiac University

    Section IV: A Potpourri of Project-Based Practices and Perspectives

    12. Work Embedded e-Learning
    Paul Shrivastava, Bucknell University

    13. Problem-based Learning Approaches in Management Education
    Oon-Seng Tan, Nanyang Technological University

    14. Business Plan Competitions: Vehicles for Learning about Entrepreneurship
    Malu Roldan, San Jose State University
    Asbjorn Osland, San Jose State University
    Michael Solt, San Jose State University
    Burton V. Dean, San Jose State University
    Mark V. Cannice, University of San Francisco

    15. The Role of the Student in Project Learning
    Timothy C. Johnston, University of Tennessee at Martin

    16. A Design for Assessing Authentic Business Projects: Project-Organized
    Education in an Undergraduate Program
    Marjolein van Noort, Hogeschool Zeeland
    Georges Romme, Tilburg University

    _____________________________________
    Collegially,
    Charles Wankel
    Associate Professor
    St. John's University, New York
    wankelc@optonline.net