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Publication date: 13 March 2019

Michael Phillips, John Volker and Susan Cockrell

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed framework of goals, processes and solutions that can serve as a starting point for instructors in designing their own…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide a detailed framework of goals, processes and solutions that can serve as a starting point for instructors in designing their own student-managed investment fund (SMIF) course experience that is relevant for all undergraduate business majors.

Design/methodology/approach

The design is suitable for a wide audience without prior equity investment expertise, lead to equity portfolio management competency and concentrate heavily on the understanding of the elements of a competitive business model. One noteworthy aspect of the proposed pedagogy is that it does not require a text, uses only real-world resources and is flexible in its execution.

Findings

The proposed pedagogy has achieved long-term success by consistently exceeding performance expectations.

Originality/value

According to the extant literature, many SMIFs are restricted to only a few students, develop skills unevenly across class participants, or are not formally organized or executed. There is a lack of in-depth and specific resources available in the extant literature to assist course designers in an SMIF design and execution. This manuscript fills this void by providing a detailed framework of goals, processes and solutions that can serve as a starting point for instructors in designing their own SMIF course experience.

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Publication date: 1 June 1985

The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains…

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The librarian and researcher have to be able to uncover specific articles in their areas of interest. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume IV, like Volume III, contains features to help the reader to retrieve relevant literature from MCB University Press' considerable output. Each entry within has been indexed according to author(s) and the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus. The latter thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid retrieval. Each article or book is assigned its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. This Volume indexes 29 journals indicating the depth, coverage and expansion of MCB's portfolio.

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Management Decision, vol. 23 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Publication date: 1 April 1997

Michael L. Tushman

This article is based on Professor Tushman's well‐received presentation at the 1997 international trategic leadership conference in Washington, D.C., in April

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This article is based on Professor Tushman's well‐received presentation at the 1997 international trategic leadership conference in Washington, D.C., in April

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Strategy & Leadership, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1087-8572

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Publication date: 1 June 1984

Michael S. Phillips

The Role of the Administrator In looking at the role of the administrator, it is first necessary to look briefly at some of the recent trends in administration, particularly…

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The Role of the Administrator In looking at the role of the administrator, it is first necessary to look briefly at some of the recent trends in administration, particularly hospital administration. The most significant development affecting the administrative process is the increased size and complexity of the hospital organisation and the bureaucratisation of all sectors of modern industrial society. Related to these developments are such other changes as the advances in science and technology with increased specialisation, extended lines of communication, and new language, related to growth and specialisation. In addition, the presence of unions, the progress in transporting methods, and finally, new discoveries and innovations in science and technology resulting in new material, plus new techniques and equipment to improve functions, have all had their impact on the process.

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Management Decision, vol. 22 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0025-1747

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Strategy & Leadership, vol. 35 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1087-8572

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Publication date: 1 February 2005

Jacob Barling, Rhonda Halpin and Michael Levy

There is little literature on patient satisfaction related to prisoner health services; the little that does exist refers to specific services, or to sub‐groups of…

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There is little literature on patient satisfaction related to prisoner health services; the little that does exist refers to specific services, or to sub‐groups of prisoner‐patients. We describe a general assessment of prisoner health services conducted on two separate occasions each with a collective sample of 210 participants, three years apart, using the same instrument. We utilised the World Health Organization Rapid Cluster Sample Survey on both occasions. We conclude that prisoners are interested informants for the health services provided to them. They have valid concerns about the confidentiality of their medical records. Programs and work routines have major impacts on accessibility of prison‐based health services. Given the lack of choice in service‐providers for prisoners, greater flexibility is required by health and custodial agencies to accommodate these two competing areas of activity. We demonstrated that a health service targeting an ‘at risk’ population can respond to inadequacies in service provision. Finally, we confirmed that the World Health Organization Rapid Cluster Sample Survey methodology is an efficient and effective means of assessing health services to discrete populations.

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International Journal of Prisoner Health, vol. 1 no. 2/3/4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1744-9200

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Publication date: 1 March 1996

Alan Arthur, Phillip Michael Dickens and Richard Charles Cobb

Presents the background to and efforts being made to find a direct production route using rapid prototype (RP) parts as the electrodes for electrical discharge machining (EDM). It…

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Presents the background to and efforts being made to find a direct production route using rapid prototype (RP) parts as the electrodes for electrical discharge machining (EDM). It would have the double effect of unlocking the potential of the EDM die sinking process and expanding the role of RP in the production environment. Thin coated stereolithography (SL) models have been used to erode hardened tool steel to a depth of 4mm. Machining efficiency of these copper coated RP models is not comparable to that of conventional machined solid copper electrodes. Parametric optimization has been applied, achieving substantial improvements in machining efficiency. At present these electrodes are suitable for semi‐roughing or finishing cuts in EDM die sinking. Electroforming copper into SL cavities shows potential for manufacture of electrodes with comparable performance to that of solid copper.

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Rapid Prototyping Journal, vol. 2 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1355-2546

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Publication date: 28 May 2020

Stephen Buser

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Managerial Finance, vol. 46 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0307-4358

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Publication date: 1 June 1981

RONNIE LESSEM

What part has work to play in a total life style? Conventional economists, now as in the past, tend to answer this question by saying that the purpose of work is to provide the…

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What part has work to play in a total life style? Conventional economists, now as in the past, tend to answer this question by saying that the purpose of work is to provide the worker with his livelihood in strictly economic terms. Today this view is being questioned and as jobs in paid employment become increasingly scarce the questionning increases too. And so a movement is gaining strength which seeks a new interpretation of the part to be played by work in an integrated life pattern. In the world at large this movement is huge and extremely varied, though relatively unrecognised. We asked Ronnie Lessem of the City University Business School and its Enterprise Development Unit, Urbed, to take readers for a brief excursion into this region of tomorrow's world.

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Industrial and Commercial Training, vol. 13 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0019-7858

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Publication date: 1 September 2006

Stan Abraham

This report on the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association of Strategic Planning (ASP), “Strategy in action: lessons from practice,” was held in Long Beach, California. This…

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This report on the Fifth Annual Conference of the Association of Strategic Planning (ASP), “Strategy in action: lessons from practice,” was held in Long Beach, California. This report covers the two keynote speakers plus highlights from a selection of the presentations (for more information see the ASP website: www.strategyplus.org). PurposeThe article summarizes the highlights of the Association for Strategic Planning's 2006 Annual Conference held on February 28, 2006 in Long Beach, California, one of the premier strategic‐planning conferences in the US. Design/methodology/approachThis is reportage on the annual ASP conference. FindingsThe remarks of the two keynote speakers are summarized: W. Chan Kim's on “blue ocean strategy” that makes the competition irrelevant, and Milind Lele's remarks on situational monopolies that also, for a time, gets rid of competition. Both authors' remarks were based on recently published best selling books. In addition, of 40 other presentations offered in concurrent sessions, the article highlights a select few, enough to give a flavor of the conference theme of “Strategy in action – lessons from practice”. Practical implicationsThe actual conference (and this report) was targeted both to practitioners and strategic consultants eager to learn about the latest methods and pitfalls in doing strategic planning. Originality/valueBoth audiences will benefit from reading this article principally by learning about the experiences, experiments, and successes of other companies' and consultants' efforts in actually doing strategic planning.

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Strategy & Leadership, vol. 34 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1087-8572

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