An Executive MBA Program in Business Engineering: A Curriculum Focusing on Change

An Executive MBA Program in Business Engineering: A Curriculum Focusing on Change

In many industries, business structures that were considered as stable over many decades have started to change rapidly, leading to a large bundle of complex, often radical and dramatic transformation needs in affected organizations. For example, due to deregulation, outsourcing, usage of electronic channels and particularly business networking, retail banking has been transformed more during t...

The Combined MS-MBA Program: An Integrated Engineering and Business Approach to Product Development

The University of Tennessee [UT] at Knoxville initiated the innovative dual degree program in the fall of 2001. Its focus is to integrate the skills and knowledge of students studying both engineering and business, and to direct those skills to product development. It permits students, in 23 months, to obtain a Master of Business Administration [MBA] degree and a Master of Science [MS] degree i...

reflections on taught courses of the iranian ma program in english translation: a mixed-methods study

the issue of curriculum and syllabus evaluation and revision has been in center of attention right from when curriculum came into attention of educational institutions. thus everywhere in the world in educational institutions curricula and syllabi are evaluated and revised based on the goals, the needs, existing content, etc.. in iran any curriculum is designed in a committee of specialists and...

Information Systems in the MBA Curriculum: An International Perspective

There is continual pressure to re-examine the MBA curriculum and, in particular, to reduce the core compulsory part. One of the courses taken out may be information systems. By quoting from the emails of 48 respondents from 11 countries of over 100 respondents in total to an ISWorld listserv request, we look at situations in many institutions and the varied opinions of colleagues. We learn abou...

Human Capital Indicators and Academic Success in Executive MBA Programs: A multi-program study