What's going on in business schools?

Article Abstract:

Business schools often are staffed by highly paid, but unqualified professors who spend much of their time and other people's money researching outdated topics that are of no practical use at the expense of the students they are supposed to be preparing to enter the workplace. The deficiencies in the environment of business academia include faculties with limited credentials; a job market that forces schools to pay professors inflated wages; and business research that is not relevant to current events. Suggestions for improving business school environments generated by studies conducted under the auspices of the Carnegie Foundation included business school faculties should spend 60% of their time teaching, 10% on administration, 10% in service, and 20% in research; business schools be considered professional schools; and an increase in experiential learning methods.

Standards, Research, Business schools, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

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Building a communication network

Article Abstract:

The Crosby Group Inc recently integrated its six in-house IBM computers by designing a star topology communication network within which warehouses and manufacturers plants can communicate with each other through a host system. Orders that previously took five days to process are now being filled on the same day. New terminals are also set up at the company's largest customers so that they may inquire about product availability and place actual orders directly. Major considerations in building a computer network include: evaluating existing computer capability; insisting on dedicated phone lines; and purchasing compatible softwares that serve specific business objectives.

Management, Data processing, Electronic data processing, Crosby Group Inc.

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The development of critical thinking

Article Abstract:

The development of the critical thinking abilities of students is a question of key importance in accounting education. Unfortunately, much of the debate on the issue has centered on the need to choose between the traditonal procedural approach which emphasizes number problem solving and the conceptual approach that emphasizes the study of abstract accounting concepts. It may be said, however, that the key to the development of critical thinking skills is not what approach should be used but rather the degree to which a teaching approach is structured.

Analysis, Critical thinking

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