Educating Managers Through
Real World Projects

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SUMMARY

Innovative learning projects in contemporary management education and development are discussed in the frame of cutting-edge theory and salient practice. Learning projects are defined as educationally directed activities involving out-of-classroom action settings complemented by student and/or instructor directed reflection on the links between theory and practice. Chapters are groundedin relevant theory, empirical research and examples of best practice for a wide variety of real world management education projects. Contexts include both university and corporate-based management education and development. Topics span action learning, experiential learning, student consulting projects, service learning, reflective practice, internships as learning vehicles,and web-based learning through projects. Extensive opportunities are being recognized for more tightly and productively integrating the normal work of managers with their education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Project Based Management Education Best Practice
Robert DeFillippi, Suffolk University
Charles Wankel, St. John's University
    Section I: Consulting Projects

    1. Wharton's Global Consulting Practicum: Interdependence, Ambiguity, and Reflection
    Patricia Gorman Clifford, Wharton School of Business
    Jane Hiller Farran, Wharton School of Business
    Leonard Lodish, Wharton School of Business

     2. Project-Based International Business Consulting
    C. Patrick Fleenor, Seattle University
    Peter V. Raven    , Seattle University
     Jerry Ralston, Seattle University

    3. Real Real World Projects
     Mats Lundeberg, Stockholm School of Economics
    Pär Mårtensson, Stockholm School of Economics

     4. Managing Divergent and Convergent Focus of Learning in Student Field Projects
    Susan Adams, Bentley College

    Section II: Service Learning Projects

    5. Educating Managers through Service Learning Projects
    Karen Ayas, Rotterdam School of Management
    Philip Mirvis, Boston College

     6. Real World Transfer of Professional Knowledge: A Modification to Internship Learning
    Jan Brace-Govan, Monash University
    Irene H. Powell, Monash University

     7. Creating actionable knowledge: Experimenting with service learning in a corporatist nonprofit regime
    Judith van der Voort, Rotterdam School of Management
    Lucas C.P.M. Meijs, Rotterdam School of Management
    Gail Whiteman, Rotterdam School of Management

    Section III: Action Learning

    8. Action Learning as a Vehicle for Management Development and Organizational Learning: Empirical Patterns from Practice and Theoretical Implications
    Lyle Yorks, Columbia University, Teachers College

    9. Action Learning for Management Development: Lessons from a Leadership Development Programme
    Richard T. Harrison, University of Edinburgh
    Claire M. Leitch, Queen's University, Belfast

    10. The Manchester Method: A Critical Review of a Learning Experiment
    Tudor Rickards, Manchester Business School
    Paula J. Hyde, Manchester Business School
    K. Nadia Papamichail, Manchester Business School

     11. A Management Education Model for Bridging the Academic and the Real World
    Eugene Baten, Central Connecticut State University
    David Fearon, Central Connecticut State University
    Cheryl Harrison, Quinnipiac University

    Section IV: A Potpourri of Project-Based Practices and Perspectives

    12. Work Embedded e-Learning
    Paul Shrivastava, Bucknell University

    13. Problem-based Learning Approaches in Management Education
    Oon-Seng Tan, Nanyang Technological University

     14. Business Plan Competitions: Vehicles for Learning about Entrepreneurship
    Malu Roldan, San Jose State University
    Asbjorn Osland, San Jose State University
    Michael Solt, San Jose State University
    Burton V. Dean, San Jose State University
    Mark V. Cannice, University of San Francisco

    15. The Role of the Student in Project Learning
    Timothy C. Johnston, University of Tennessee at Martin

    16. A Design for Assessing Authentic Business Projects: Project-Organized Education in an Undergraduate Program
    Marjolein van Noort, Hogeschool Zeeland
    Georges Romme, Eindhoven University of Technology