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Selling

How is it possible to have a whole section on business and not have a section on the nature of professional selling and what selling is and requires. The section on marketing doesn't cover it at all and in the real world marketing is not the same as Selling. Direct sales jobs account for well over 3million jobs in the USA alone. Selling is the lifeblood of business. No business will survive without making sales and most businesses fail because they don't make enough sales and run out of cash.

Economics, Business

I don't want to offend anyone but people should really understand things before making departments. Yes economics is related to business, but economics is related to almost everything on earth. Economics should remain its own department. In fact, it would make more sense having economics as part of Social Sciences, because it is a science. Mattrix18 12:39, 3 November 2006 (UTC) .

Organization

I already finalized the 14 departments of the School of Business, so now if anyone wants to add something, it can now be classified in any of the subdepartments. Knowledge Management and Project Management are now in the Management Department, Humble Guy

I expanded some of the departments and edited/merged some others based on the systems set up by recognized universities, namely Harvard, Columbia and University of Florida (where I went to). Please advise if anything need to be changed. Rayshan 18:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Merger of departments

I'd like to propose merging Qualitative and Quantitative Methods with either Decision, Risk and Operations and/or Computer and Information Sciences (CIS). I am not aware of a department/school/major at an existing university after that name. Please advise. Rayshan 21:37, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Columbia's DRO is one of the more unusual titles for a department that is usually a grab bag and which the major accrediting agency AACSB describes as "Quantitative Methods". To be fair, the difference between quant methods and operations management is unclear at many schools -- despite OM payscales being much higher.

Therefore, I would propose merging the departments into one which captures the main idea and a phrase often in the naming of these departments. I would call the merged department Decision Sciences. That fits with what is used at many schools; and, it makes clear what is in (OR/OM, statistics, actuarial science, econometrics, game theory) and what is out (CS, information systems). --75.34.23.65 13:06, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Entrepreneurship

Hi. I think there should be a department specializing in entrepreneurship and entrepreneural skills.

TheBrain

Yes, I merged the Entrepreneurship program with Business School. Rayshan 15:00, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Related knowledge

MBApedia

Before learning about this project, I started MBApedia, the free business encyclopedia.

The objectives of MBApedia are similar to the Wikiversity, but there's a twist in each of them:

• Academic community: Courses and class notes from business schools.
• Research projects: most of them applied to real business problems.
• Forum: Discussion and analysis of business problems in the media or from contributors.

I think it would be in our best interest to coordinate either joint research projects and courses or even merge.

Anyone interested in the Wikiversity:School of Business or MBApedia, the free business encyclopedia, please comment on this proposal.

You can also take contents from the MBApedia site, because it is also released under the GNU FDL.

Wikibooks

To anyone, pls help write wikibooks so that the school of business can get into gear. Humble Guy

Business Plan

Hello, I just wanted to prematurely announce that I intend to slowly write a business plan. Please view http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Talk:Wikibooks_business_plan_1 I thought this would be a good place to announce this.

- JOsH

It does not exist yet... Rayshan 21:37, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Other comments

I need help in honing raw business sense and would like to know when this school will be up. Hope it is sooner than later... B

Um this is an ongoing project, I don't think it's going to be "up" soon, but you can check out the business articles on Wikipedia tho Rayshan 18:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Question at help desk

Short term interest rates
I need a list by country of short-term interest rates. This should be current short-term interet rates or within the past 3 months.
Can you help me get such a list?

Thanks, Byron Shoulton

Business school== Wikibooks School of Business == I was thinking about adding this section:

==Things you can do==
* Over at Wikibooks there is a page [[b:Wikiversity:School_of_Business]]. 
Any useful content from that page needs to be transfered over to Wikiversity 
so the page can be deleted.]] 

However I am not sure about the proper procedure... It seems that the history of the page at Wikibooks should be saved to note past contributors, but also it should not be cluttering up Wikibooks. Is there anyway to transwiki the page history to Wikiversity, but transwiki it in such a way that the the pages can be merge merged, and Wikibooks contributors' contributions are still noted? --Remi 00:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

master - doctoral departments

Is the following really necessary? It seems that we could include material at this high of a level at the respective specific departments. i.e. have all levels be contained at Topic:Account... and not have high level content at a separate mba and phd departments... Yes, no? Comment?

Graduate

Masters

• Master of Accounting (M.Acc.)
• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Master of Business Taxation (MBT)
• Master of Financial Technical Analysis (MFTA)

Doctoral

• Doctorate in Business Administration DBA
• Accounting Ph.D
• Decision, Risk & Operations Ph.D
• Finance & Economics Ph.D
• Management Ph.D
• Marketing Ph.D
• Organizational Behavior Ph.D

--Remi 05:57, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

moving business links to Business links

Perhaps there are enough to warrant this. What do others think? If discussion is absent or does not run counter to this suggestion, I may do so within around five days. Emesee 05:07, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Submitting Papers (i.e. Original Research)

I have a few papers that I have written for my other classes. They aren't anything profound. By Wikipedia standards, they are considered original research and it doesn't belong there. I think these papers would be a quick way to get the information out there. Is there a section to submit papers for peer-view under the school of Business? Is this even worth while? I think it would be to have repository of papers (almost like a journal) where the School of Business users can look at, use, edit, and even reject/accept the paper outright.

As for these papers, they shouldn't be static nor ever in a "finished" state. I don't think any paper is perfect and can always be improved. At some point the paper may no longer be applicable where new accepted research making it obsolete, and the paper can be retired to an archive.

This whole thing might be beyond the scope of what wikiversity has intended, but the point in graduate and doctoral studies is to give back the academics.

Any thoughts? --Glinos 12:27, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer and please see Wikiversity:Peer review, ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 20:46, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

active participants?

Are all of these active participants active? I will paste the list from the non-talk page here.

"Ray Shan Prasenjit Paul Humble Guy JWSchmidt Robbi G Lisa M. Beeson M. Judd Warren Missqueenahearts Perfect Jav Matt Kinnia"

Are they/you? Michael Ten (talk) 15:56, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I'm none of the above but am active with the following business-related resources

1. Dominant group/Business which is part of my original research into Dominant group,
2. Dominant group/Economics, ditto,
3. Income, a template, and research area,
4. Monopolistic practices, which is under development, also an original research field,
5. Gene project, a template, original research and product development field,
6. Repellor vehicle, ditto, and
7. Gift economy, original research resource. --Marshallsumter (talk) 20:50, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

A Good Business School

A good business school is one that will teach students how to successfully earn money, hopefully in ways that are ethical and beneficial to all humans on Earth. Michael Ten (talk) 16:20, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

I agree, but it's not easy! --Marshallsumter (talk) 20:51, 18 December 2012 (UTC)