Engaging OB students through interdisciplinary study of a major business event: The Wall Street Crash of 2008

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OB students with little work experience often lack a sense of context and motivation for the subject. Course content can seem imprecise and not well related to their other management studies. This session will provide as an example the conceptual and teaching framework used in a popular undergraduate seminar that uses the fields of organizational behavior, business ethics, and finance to study the causes of the 2008 Wall Street melt down. After the presentation, participants will sub-group based on disciplinary interest to generate ideas for additional teaching approaches or conceptual frameworks to facilitate this kind of student engagement.

Author(s):

Rick Herbert    
Washington and Lee University
United States