Lessons
from Corporations Past: Madison History Professor Develops
Database of 19th-C. Corporate Charters
by
Jennifer Smith
Business
and technology historians, legal scholars, and history
buffs will be excited to learn about a new website created
by UW-Madison history professor Colleen Dunlavy. Dr. Dunlavy,
who specializes in business history, has created a "Business
and Technology" website that includes as its main component
a database of nineteenth century corporate charters. Analyzing
these charters reveals interesting discoveries about the
history of corporations in the U.S. and Europe -- and
provokes questions about how corporations operate today.
(June 2000)
Staying
Afloat in the Insurance Game: UW-Whitewater Professor's
Simulation Gives Students Taste of a Competitive Market
Professor Ronald Crabb
UW-Whitewater
Article by Jennifer Smith
Whitewater
professor Dr. Ronald Crabb has developed an innovative
game to help his business students understand how the
insurance industry functions. Read about how he developed
the game and find links to an overview of this computer
simulation.
WONDER:
Fairy Tale or Virtual Reality?
Donna Stewart
Chair, Industrial Management Department, UW-Stout
Through
the WONDER system, UW-Stout, the technical colleges, and
the UW Colleges have found new avenues of delivery for
a bachelor's degree program in Industrial Technology.
Essential
Web Aspects for Course Administration
Professor Ceil Pillsbury
Department of Business Administration, UW-Milwaukee
ABSTRACT
(with no feature article)
Professor Pillsbury uses the Web to provide students with
class notes, syllabi, project instructions, and interactive
sample exams. She has a class listserv for class announcements,
discussion of current issues, reports from the Wall Street
Journal and other business press sources, and for distributing
grades. Her students do evaluations of accounting and
business Web sites and develop their own Web pages on
topics relevant to the class. Professor Pillsbury also
uses computer animations and Power Point to illustrate
various class concepts. Professor Pillsbury's home
page is at http://www.uwm.edu/People/ceil/
You can reach Professor Pillsbury at ceil@csd.uwm.edu