Employers seek job candidates with critically thinking abilities, great written and oral communication skills, and honesty, among other characteristics. Research supports the need to develop those qualities and business faculty are charged with the task of developing and improving them. As a result faculty are continually searching for new and interesting tools to use in the classroom to reinforce a student's critical thinking, writing and problem solving abilities. This paper seeks to provide the business faculty instructor with a useful research assignment designed to improve students' research, critical thinking, problem solving and writing skills. The assignment design is also useful for faculty in any discipline.