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Abreo, Christina; Miller, Wayne; Farmer, Frank; Moon, Zola; McCullough, Stacey – Journal of Extension, 2014
This article describes the materials and training program that Extension created to assist current and potential Latino immigrant entrepreneurs in starting businesses in Arkansas. The content-based educational materials describe the process for starting a new business, government regulatory requirements, start-up costs and considerations, and how…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Hispanic Americans, Instructional Materials, Material Development
Levy, Yair; Ramim, Michelle M. – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2015
There is a growing interest in the assessment of tangible skills and competence. Specifically, there is an increase in the offerings of competency-based assessments, and some academic institutions are offering college credits for individuals who can demonstrate adequate level of competency on such assessments. An increased interest has been placed…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Simulation, Competency Based Education, Business Skills
Onodugo, Vincent; Onodugo, Chris Ifeanyi – African Educational Research Journal, 2015
Entrepreneur development takes place within a framework of forces that constitute the system environment, which are either external or internal. A critical issue in the entrepreneurial development and growth is firms' ability to adapt to their strategies to a rapidly changing system environment to which the entrepreneurs' role is critical to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Entrepreneurship
Riley, Tracey J.; Simons, Kathleen A. – Accounting Education, 2016
Given the importance of effective written communication skills to the discipline of accounting, faculty must emphasize these skills in their classroom in order to adequately prepare students for successful careers in the field. Since 2000, only two studies in the accounting literature have examined which written communication skills are needed by…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Accounting, Writing Skills, Business Skills
Jones, Paul; Forbes-Simpson, Kellie; Maas, Gideon; Newbery, Robert – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
This paper reports on an evaluation of a funded undergraduate project designed to enable student business start-up. The programme, entitled "Beta", provides undergraduate students with £1,500 of seed-corn funding. The key objective of the project is for the participants to exit it with a viable and legal business entity through which…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Entrepreneurship, Business Skills, Food
Binuomote, M. O.; Okoli, B. E. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The paper examined the business competencies required by business education students for entrepreneurial development in Nigeria. To achieve the objective, two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Survey design was adopted for the study. The population comprised 6002 business education students. Six hundred…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Minimum Competency Testing, Minimum Competencies, Business Skills
Graduate Management Admission Council, 2019
The Corporate Recruiters Survey provides an overview of current employer hiring demand for MBA and business master's graduates and examines hiring practices and trends by industry and world region. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), together with survey partners MBA Career Services and Employer Alliance (MBA CSEA), EFMD, and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Graduates, Business Administration Education, Business Schools
Petrie, Kimberly A.; Carnahan, Robert H.; Brown, Abigail M.; Gould, Kathleen L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Many biomedical PhD trainees lack exposure to business principles, which limits their competitiveness and effectiveness in academic and industry careers. To fill this training gap, we developed Business and Management Principles for Scientists, a semester-long program that combined didactic exposure to business fundamentals with practical…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Business Administration Education, Biomedicine, Medical Students
Ashour, Sanaa – Cogent Education, 2016
With limited employment opportunities, entrepreneurship is becoming a viable option to combat unemployment. This study explores undergraduate students' attitudes towards business and social entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), assuming that the lack of awareness among students regarding social entrepreneurship and the lack of…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Career Development, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Where Do Graduates Develop Their Enterprise Skills? The Value of the Contribution of the HEI Context
Refai, Deema; Thompson, John – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
This paper reports on an investigation into the value of the contribution of the higher education institution (HEI) context in developing graduates' enterprise skills. The study was an exploration of where graduates develop enterprise skills, examining the impact of the higher education and employment contexts on the development of these skills.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Graduates, Entrepreneurship
Harris, Garth; Gulati, Rajesh; Bristow, Dennis N.; Schneider, Kenneth; Amyx, Douglas – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2014
For decades, (going back to the 1950s) the negative attitudes students hold towards salespeople and sales careers have been of concern to university educators and to employers seeking to recruit well-trained sales people. While the increasing demand for university educated salespeople continues to grow, employers are struggling to meet that…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Relevance (Education), Pretests Posttests, Sales Occupations
Donaldson, Jeff; Flagg, Donald – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2014
In a world of fluctuating asset prices, many firms find the need to hedge in order to avoid or reduce losses. From a gold miner selling gold derivatives to airlines buying oil futures to protect against rising fuel costs, hedging is common practice across many different industries. In this paper, we provide students with a simplified example of a…
Descriptors: Risk, Risk Assessment, Banking, Business Administration Education
McCamant, Thaddeus – Center for Rural Policy and Development, 2014
The immigrant population is growing in rural Minnesota, and those who are interested in farming will be replacing a dwindling population of traditionally white farmers. Like traditional American farmers, immigrant farmers have a need for continuing education to keep them up on best practices and new technology in agriculture. Minnesota's…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Agricultural Occupations, Rural Areas, Agricultural Education
Chong, James T.; Jennings, William P.; Phillips, G. Michael – American Journal of Business Education, 2013
An educational example is presented that is an effective teaching illustration to help students understand the difference between traditional CAPM beta and downside (or down-market) beta and why downside beta is a superior measure for use in personal financial planning investment policy statements.
Descriptors: Investment, Business Administration Education, Business Skills, Demonstrations (Educational)
Williams, Dina – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to bridge a gap in our understanding of the role business simulation games can play in the development of entrepreneurial capabilities in undergraduate students. While entrepreneurship education has come a long way from being a branch of business and management studies, to its current status as a core discipline in…
Descriptors: Computer Games, Educational Games, Computer Simulation, Entrepreneurship