Economist article on changing Business School curriculum

The article describes changes in business school curriculum so that students have better marketable skills upon graduation. Instead of the traditional methods of teaching functional subjects such as marketing and strategy, students at Yale University are now learning by different themes such as the customer or the investor. The teaching of ethics is important in business schools especially after the corporate scandals at Enron and WorldCom. Enrollment has increased in business schools worldwide.

The Ideas Database

This might help students come up with entrepreneurial ideas!

http://www.springwise.com/ideas/

Article on integrated undergraduate courses

Journal of Management Education, Vol. 30, No. 2, 276-294 (2006) The Organizational Behavior Teaching Society
Interdisciplinary, Team-Taught, Undergraduate Business Courses: The Impact of Integration
http://jme.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/2/276

Bib me BBIM

Web site BibMe helps you create and download a bibliography with minimal time and effort. The nice thing about it is that it has an AutoFill mode that lets you search for a book or other source online and fill in all the relevant info with the click of a mouse.

World's greatest presentations

Slideshare.net had a "World's greatest presentation" competition recently.

You can see the finalists here.

I thought the top two were particularly relevant to what we are doing in the BBIM.