A qualitative analysis of competencies and skills developed or reinforced in an MBA capstone course and comparison of competencies developed by type of undergraduate major

IF 1.3 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Journal of Education for Business Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI:10.1080/08832323.2023.2260931

Gary Blau, TL Hill

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AbstractUsing qualitative open item analysis, MBA alumni were asked their perceptions of competencies, skills and concepts developed or reinforced in a client-focused team project MBA capstone course. The replies from 167 respondents were aggregated together over a nine-year period from 2013 to 2021. Conversion of coded responses to managerial competencies indicated eight competencies: client relationship management, communication, financial modeling, presentation, project management, research and analysis, strategic deliverable recommendation, and team leadership. This coding structure provided partial convergent validation for prior theoretical and empirical work linking MBA learned-to-needed managerial competencies. In addition, several differences were found between competencies/skills developed or reinforced in the MBA capstone by type of undergraduate major, i.e., business, liberal arts or STEM.Keywords: MBA competenciesMBA capstone courseundergraduate majoropen item analysis Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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对MBA顶点课程培养或强化的能力和技能进行定性分析，并对不同本科专业培养的能力进行比较

摘要采用定性开放项目分析，MBA校友被问及他们对在以客户为中心的团队项目MBA顶点课程中发展或加强的能力、技能和概念的看法。167名受访者的回复是在2013年至2021年的9年间汇总的。对管理能力的编码反应的转换表明了八种能力:客户关系管理、沟通、财务建模、演示、项目管理、研究和分析、战略可交付建议和团队领导。这种编码结构为先前将MBA学习到所需的管理能力联系起来的理论和实证工作提供了部分收敛验证。此外，根据本科专业类型(即商科、文科或STEM)，在MBA顶点课程中培养或加强的能力/技能之间存在一些差异。关键词:MBA能力MBA顶点课程本科专业公开项目分析披露声明作者未发现潜在利益冲突。

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Journal of Education for Business EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Education for Business is for those educating tomorrow''s businesspeople. The journal primarily features basic and applied research-based articles in entrepreneurship, accounting, communications, economics, finance, information systems, management, marketing, and other business disciplines. Along with the focus on reporting research within traditional business subjects, an additional expanded area of interest is publishing articles within the discipline of entrepreneurship. Articles report successful innovations in teaching and curriculum development at the college and postgraduate levels. Authors address changes in today''s business world and in the business professions that are fundamentally influencing the competencies that business graduates need. JEB also offers a forum for new theories and for analyses of controversial issues. Articles in the Journal fall into the following categories: Original and Applied Research; Editorial/Professional Perspectives; and Innovative Instructional Classroom Projects/Best Practices. Articles are selected on a blind peer-reviewed basis. Original and Applied Research - Articles published feature the results of formal research where findings have universal impact. Editorial/Professional Perspective - Articles published feature the viewpoint of primarily the author regarding important issues affecting education for business. Innovative Instructional Classroom Projects/Best Practices - Articles published feature the results of instructional experiments basically derived from a classroom project conducted at one institution by one or several faculty.