Announcement: Follow up in case you missed some items

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2016-07-05T10:51:05-06:00

Welcome again to Strategic Management 250 at Mount Wachusett Community College, I am Professor Elmer Eubanks and I will be your guide through this course. We are using two sites for the course, the course is not on blackboard. By now you should have received an invitation to join the course. Poke around to get familiar with the site. The second site is from http://schools.interpretive.com/ and you should have received a user name and password to access our Airline simulation.

I hope you are excited to be at your capstone course and I hope to make it interesting and fun and a great opportunity to learn from each other.

The course will have several elements which will give you the opportunity to learn at your own pace as well as highlight your strengths including a fun game called Airline which you will play online with other team members and compete. By now you should have received an welcome emails for Airline, a simulation that is required for this course. If you can't find a welcome email from support@interpretive.com, please check your spam folders. If you still can't find a welcome email, then please request a User ID and Password by emailing support@interpretive.com--being sure to reference "Professor Elmer Eubanks" and "Airline".

It will be bundled along with the textbook but this should give you temporary access to start playing and since not everyone will purchase from the bookstore you can also buy the access at the http://schools.interpretive.com

Grading: My grading scheme allows you to focus on what you do best. There are many ways to get to the required total points. For example, you have 10 quizzes available one for each chapter. Another example is your reading posts. Each week you will post a link to an article which will be shared with all and will give you 5 points each. You will have one case to review and write at the end along with the airline board report. (read your syllabus to see the different points you can obtain).

We will be going through modules for each week. The first week will be light and only have you discuss a little about yourself.

I will be posting complementary articles in each module for you to read along with PowerPoint presentations that should also complement your study.

Books: For those of you who can't afford the textbook there are a few alternatives: One is to purchase an older version. If doing so, your cases may be different so make sure to map the cases to your text. The Library also has the textbook. You may also find an etext rental at

https://www.vitalsource.com/products/strategic-management-fred-r-david-v9780134143415 as well as www.mymanagementlab.com (Links to an external site.) the course ID is eeubanks47646 for the 2015 Edition and for 2016 Edition course ID is eubanks36511 will be available in 2 days so check back which also allows you to read the text online. I don't use it but some students find it an option to read the text at mylab instead.

Please feel free to email me at eeubanks@mwcc.mass.edu with any questions.

See you in class online.