Business organizations and their employees face ever-increasing complexity and accelerating changes in their everyday work. This brings along the need for training models able to facilitate the development of knowledge and skills needed in this kind of environment. This paper introduces a certain computer-based, continuously processed business simulation. The purpose of the described learning e...

Faculty members are challenged with staying abreast of business intelligence and teaching the topic in relevant ways. The latest enhancement to the Teradata University Network (www.TeradataUniversityNetwork.com) is the addition of business intelligence software The website now offers MicroStrategy 7i, an interactive environment for business reporting and analysis and several MicroStrategy analy...

In this interactive demo-session we present how information visualization can be used as an innovative pedagogical tool in business education to help students grasp dynamism in the global economy. We will demonstrate how data-rich visualizations enable students’ understanding of foundational business content, including global competition, innovation-based competition, and industry evolution. Th...

Business intelligence became a standard part of undergraduate and graduate curricula in recent years. Faculty are challenged with staying abreast of this evolving topic and teaching it in relevant ways. The latest enhancement to the Teradata University Network (www.TeradataUniversityNetwork.com) is the addition of software from a leading business intelligence vendor. The website now offers Micr...

Although several cross-sectional surveys have shown that certain traits such as extraversion and neuroticism are related to emotion regulation, few studies have explored the nature of this relationship. The present study tried to explore the longitudinal relation between traits and emotion regulation strategies. The Interpersonal Self-Support Scale for Middle School Students (ISSS-MSS) and the ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the recognition of body image and food behavior factors according to the BMI. The subjects of this study were 242 7th grade students resided in San Francisco area. The degree of recognition for self-estimated physique of subjects by gender and by race showed no significant differences by gender but significant differences by race, showing that 20.0% wa...

I assessed change in students’ moral reasoning following five 75-min classes on business ethics and two assignments utilizing a novel pedagogical approach designed to foster ethical reasoning skills. To minimize threats to validity present in previous studies, an untreated control group design with preand posttraining measures was used. Training (n = 114) and control (n = 76) groups comprised f...

Approximately 1000 students of computer science and business informatics attend the course Introduction to ObjectOriented Modeling (OOM) offered by the Business Informatics Group (BIG) of the Vienna University of Technology each year in order to learn the basic concepts of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and to obtain a certificate. For finishing the course successfully, the students must p...

As creativity is increasingly recognised as a vital component of entrepreneurship, researchers and educators struggle to reform enterprise pedagogy. To help in this effort, we use a personality test and open-ended interviews to explore creativity between two groups of entrepreneurship masters’ students: one at a business school and one at an engineering school. The findings indicate that both g...