MBA Program Trends and Best Practices in Teaching Sustainability: Live Project Courses

Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 349-369

  Sroufe, Robert ^a   Ramos, Diane ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Content Areas; Environmental Issues; Operations Management; Teaching Approaches; Teaching Using Projects; Themes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053295217     PISSN: 15404595     EISSN: 15404609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4609.2011.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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