Published: 2005-05-31

CONTENTS

Editorial Review Board v

List of Contributors vii

Real World Projects and Project-Based Learning Pedagogies
Robert DeFillippi and Charles Wankel xi


PART I: CONSULTING PROJECTS

1. Wharton’s Global Consulting Practicum: Interdependence, Ambiguity and Reflection
Patricia Gorman Clifford, Jane Hiller Farran, and Leonard Lodish 3

2. Project-Based International Business Consulting
C. Patrick Fleenor, Peter V. Raven, and Jerry Ralston 25

3. Real Real World Projects
Mats Lundeberg and Pär Mårtensson 47

4. Managing Divergent and Convergent Focus of Learning in Student Field Projects
Susan Adams 65


PART II: SERVICE LEARNING PROJECTS

5. Educating Managers through Service Learning Projects
Karen Ayas and Philip Mirvis 93

6. Real World Transfer of Professional Knowledge: A Modification to Internship Learning
Jan Brace-Govan and Irene H. Powell 115

7. Creating Actionable Knowledge: Practicing Service Learning in a Dutch Business School Context
Judith M. van der Voort, Lucas C.P.M. Meijs, and Gail Whiteman 149


PART III: ACTION LEARNING

8. Action Learning as a Vehicle for Management Development and Organizational Learning: Empirical Patterns from Practice and Theoretical Implications
Lyle Yorks 183

9. Action Learning for Management Development: Lessons from a Leadership Development Program
Richard T. Harrison and Claire M. Leitch 213

10. The Manchester Method: A Critical Review of a Learning Experiment
Tudor Rickards, Paula J. Hyde, and K. Nadia Papamichail 241

11. A Management Education Model for Bridging the Academic and Real World
Eugene Baten, David Fearon, and Cheryl Harrison 255


PART IV: A POTPOURRI OF PROJECT-BASED PRACTICES AND PERSPECTIVES

12. Work Embedded e-Learning
Paul Shrivastava 277

13. Problem-Based Learning Approaches to Management Education
Oon-Seng Tan 289

14. Business Plan Competitions: Vehicles for Learning Entrepreneurship
Malu Roldan, Asbjorn Osland, Michael Solt, Burton V. Dean, and Mark V. Cannice 309

15. The Role of the Student in Project Learning
Timothy C. Johnston 333

16. Assessing Performance in Projects from Different Angles
Marjolein van Noort and Georges Romme 359

About the Editors 377