Word: hokanson
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Porter had also been retained by the NFL as a consultant, and he prepared a case study of the NFL-USFL rivalry for his students, said William Hokanson, spokesman for the Business School. He called it "more or less the private outside activity of Professor Porter...
...minority that still has not infiltrated the ranks of the executive education programs is women. In the most recent PMD, which graduated right before Thanksgiving, the female contingent ranked at about 10 percent of the enrollment, Hokanson says. He says this figure is gradually increasing as more women enter the corporate world...
Before going to their formal discussion classes directed by professors, each day the participants gather in small groups to analyze case studies about actual occurrences in the business world. Many of the case studies come from the individual participants' own business experiences, Hokanson says...
Because the classes are run by discussion and not lectures, the members feel obligated to participate, even though the sessions are ungraded. "They really work just because they don't want to embarrass themselves," says Hokanson...
...addition, the Business School faculty can remain in contact with the real world of business through discussion in the executive education classes. "This is where the faculty learns the most about current problems," says Hokanson. "The value of the course is not just subject matter but the ability to pick the brains of other executives," Perry adds...