Flashlight Assembly Challenge: Introducing Production Operations to MBA Students
Department
Management and Entrepreneurship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2011
Abstract
The article discusses a teaching exercise designed to introduce the area of production operations to incoming Master of Business Administrations (MBA) students and fuel the development of effective student groups. It notes that prior to their arrival, each of the 95 students had been assigned to a study group of five members based on prior work experience and diverse skill sets. It says that active learning techniques built into the exercise combined cognitive production planning requirements.
Journal Title
Decision Sciences: Journal of Innovative Education
Journal ISSN
0011--7315
Volume
9
Issue
1
First Page
75
Last Page
79
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1111/j.1540-4609.2010.00292.x
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