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Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

We here at University of Wisconsin-Superior have the capstone only for business management, marketing and finance majors. Alternatively, other majors can take the business management capstone but it requires different courses at different times than in their normal curriculum setup. Accounting and Economics have their own capstones as does our Transportation and Logistics major as well.

Basically, I functionally integrate everything except for accounting, although there are some elements of accounting, it is limited to a managerial accounting level. I also integrate business law, in the form of corporate governance, risk, corporate social responsibility, and ethics, as well as sustainability, HR and profit maximization.

Would love to see the compilation. If you need more, ask.

Bruce Kibler

Bruce A. Kibler, PhD.

University of Wisconsin-Superior

Department of Business and Economics

Erlanson 306 B

Superior, WI 54880

bkibler@uwsuper.edu

+715-394-8570

"Companies that want to succeed and thrive in the future are increasingly being encouraged to find ways to simulatneously meet both their own strategic needs and those of society" (Porter & Kramer, 2006).

Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

I would like to add an extension to Frances' question below. We are currently considering the value of our strategy capstone course as a critical means for general assessment of all our undergraduate students. If anyone has experience with how to do this effectively (e.g. via simulation games, business plans, etc.), please let me know your results.

________________________________
Klaus Uhlenbruck, Ph.D.
John and Kathie Connors Faculty Fellow

Professor of Management

Chair, Dept. of Management & Marketing
School of Business Administration
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812-6808
Ph. (406) 243-6523, Fax (406) 243-6191
http://www.business.umt.edu/faculty/uhlenbruck

Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

Frances,

The University of Westminster in London has a capstone module on business strategy for all final year undergrads. It brings students in all disciplines together, leading to seminar groups of "strangers". I'd be interested in learning whether such mixed cohorts or subject-specific arrangements predominate among listserv members.

Donald Nordberg

Senior Lecturer in Strategy

d.nordberg@westminster.ac.uk

Westminster Business School

University of Westminster

35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS, United Kingdom

Corporate Governance: Principles and Issues, London: Sage Publications

View my papers: http://ssrn.com/author=475919 or http://works.bepress.com/donald_nordberg

Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

We still use a single course capstone although each major/degree has a capstone specific to the discipline. One of the reasons we keep it is because it is a good assessment course, especially to capture communication skills and higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy. In Florida, the assessment has to meet the standards of SACS, AACSB, and the Board of Governors Academic Learning compacts. They are all slightly different.

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From: Amatucci, Frances M.

To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU

Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 12:05 PM

Subject: Strategy/Business Policy as Undergraduate Capstone

 

Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

 

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

 

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Frances,

We use the strategy course at the undergraduate level as a senior capstone for all business majors.

Tammy Hunt

UNC Wilmington

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From: Amatucci, Frances M.

To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU

Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 12:05 PM

Subject: Strategy/Business Policy as Undergraduate Capstone

 

Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

 

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

 

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Frances,

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Tammy Hunt

UNC Wilmington

----- Original Message -----

From: Amatucci, Frances M.

To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU

Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 12:05 PM

Subject: Strategy/Business Policy as Undergraduate Capstone

 

Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

 

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

 

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Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

We have two required courses-Competitive Strategy and Strategic Management-in our Bachelor of Commerce program. These are more than capstone courses.

Shamsud D. Chowdhury

Professor of Strategy and Competitiveness

School of Business

Dalhousie University

Halifax, Nova Scotia

CANADA

We still use a single course capstone although each major/degree has a capstone specific to the discipline. One of the reasons we keep it is because it is a good assessment course, especially to capture communication skills and higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy. In Florida, the assessment has to meet the standards of SACS, AACSB, and the Board of Governors Academic Learning compacts. They are all slightly different.

----- Original Message -----

From: Amatucci, Frances M.

To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU

Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 12:05 PM

Subject: Strategy/Business Policy as Undergraduate Capstone

 

Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

 

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

 

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If considering simulation games for assessment, you should join us at the next conference of the Assn. for Business Simulation & Experiential Learning (http://www.absel.org) in Pensacola, FL, 16-18 March 2011. Games are flexible, objective, feasible, and relevant.

Although rarely done, I figure a good assessment program should process both graduate and undergraduate students through the same instrument. My experience in using games for business program assessment is that when both graduate and undergraduate business students participate in the same business game competition, the graduate students distinctly outperform the undergraduates, as they should.

Precha

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Precha Thavikulwat, Ph.D.
Professor of Management

Department of Management

Towson University

8000 York Road

Towson, MD 21252-0001

U.S.A.

t. 410-704-3230

f. 410-704-3236

pthavikulwat@towson.edu

Skype: pthavikulwat

http://pages.towson.edu/precha

I would like to add an extension to Frances' question below. We are currently considering the value of our strategy capstone course as a critical means for general assessment of all our undergraduate students. If anyone has experience with how to do this effectively (e.g. via simulation games, business plans, etc.), please let me know your results.

________________________________
Klaus Uhlenbruck, Ph.D.
John and Kathie Connors Faculty Fellow

Professor of Management

Chair, Dept. of Management & Marketing
School of Business Administration
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812-6808
Ph. (406) 243-6523, Fax (406) 243-6191
http://www.business.umt.edu/faculty/uhlenbruck

Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable Enterprise Accelerator

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock, PA 16057

Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

We also require all undergraduates to complete the strategic management course as their capstone experience.  

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----- Original Message -----

From: Amatucci, Frances M.

To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU

Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 12:05 PM

Subject: Strategy/Business Policy as Undergraduate Capstone

 

Does anyone have information about how many schools still require strategic management/business policy as a capstone course in the undergraduate curriculum for ALL business majors?   Years ago, I conducted a content analysis of the curricula of the top 50 undergraduate business programs.  I'm seeking more current data on the strategy course and emphasis on functional integration at the undergraduate level.  I would be happy to compile individual responses and share with the BPS Listserv.

 

Dr. Frances M. Amatucci

Associate Professor

Managing Director, Sustainable <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:place></st1:city> Accelerator

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Tel: (724) 738-4310

E-mail: frances.amatucci@sru.edu

 

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