Progress Report for 2009
Vijay R. Kannan, Ph.D., Director of International Programs Professor of Operations Management Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University Website: www.huntsman.usu.edu email: dsjie.editor@gmail.com vijay.kannan@usu.edu | office 435.797.7212 | fax 435.797.1091 | 3555 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322 Past Editors Chetan S. Sankar, Auburn University Barabara B. Flynn, Indiana University
DSJIE’s mission is to publish significant research relevant to teaching and learning issues in the decision sciences. The decision sciences include both quantitative and behavioral approaches to managerial decision making, encompassing all of the functional areas of business, including (but not limited to) accounting, business strategy and entrepreneurship, economics, finance, international business and globalization, marketing, MIS/DSS and computer systems, organizational behavior/organizational design, operations and logistics management, quantitative methods and statistics.
Examining the Impact of Pedagogy on Student Application of Learning: Acquiring, Sharing, and Using Knowledge for Organizational Decision Making
Alice C. Stewart, Jacqueline Williams, Karen Smith-Gratto, Sylvia Sloan Black and Betty Turner Kane
Does the MBA Experience Support Diversity? Demographic Effects on Program Satisfaction
J. B. Arbaugh, Regina Bento and Alvin Hwang
Applying Mass Customization Concepts to Core Courses: Increasing Student-Centered Customization and Enabling Cross-Functional Integration
Darryl D. Wilson
Teaching Design Thinking Through Case Analysis: Joint Analytical Process
Shouhong Wang and Hai Wang
Promoting Effective Decision Making Using Analytics in a Virtual Technology Lab
Mary E. Gros, Michael Goul and Haluk Demirkan
FrameEx: Classroom Exercise to Demonstrate Analytic Framework Value
Teaching Utility Theory with an Application in Modern Portfolio Optimization
Lihui Bai, Paul Newsom and Jiang Zhang
2011 Special Topic Forum
Expanding Minority Participation in Management Education
Guest Editors: Thomas R. Stafford and Chetan S. Sankar
Quotes on Learning and Pedagogy