Learning Through Industry Interface Projects
Industry interface projects are an integral part of the curriculum of the Global Masters of Business Administration GMBA program at S.P. Jain School of Global Management, which has campuses in Singapore and Dubai. The GMBA is a one-year full-time residential program, where students spend six months each in Singapore and Dubai, completing one project at each location. The first project, which is undertaken in Singapore, is called the Applied Research Project ARP and is an “inquiry based” field research project. It provides an opportunity to the students to apply their knowledge of market research, quantitative techniques, and other subjects that they learn in the first semester. This is an independent project without any involvement of a client organization. The second project, which is undertaken in Dubai, is called the Action Learning Project ALP. Fresh teams are formed to undertake this client-based project, and there is no relationship between the topics and teams of ARPs and ALPs. Over a period of the last seven years, more than 250 students have undertaken about 100 ARPs and 100 ALPs with 50 client organizations in the areas of logistics and supply chain management. In this paper I discuss the structure of these projects and learnings from undertaking these projects at two locations.
Student Advisory Teams: a New Approach to Managing Field Projects
Authors’ Note: Reprint requests should be sent to Carole Congram, Associate Professor, Management Department, Bentley College, 326 Adamian Graduate Center, 175 Forest Street, Waltham, Massachusetts 02154-4705. Project fieldwork enriches the classroom experience by offering students the opportunity to apply in-class learning to real-world situations. Managing inexperienced groups of students in field projects, however, takes considerable time, energy, and skill on the part of the instructor. Often, groups without questions or obvious problems &dquo;get lost&dquo; as the instructor works with the
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