My Discipline

This post helped me realize the many different journals that are producing many leading theories in the business world and made me curious to read these journals.

1.    What do students in your program or department learn how to do?

Students in the Eller College of Management learn how to become a professional business person and to perform in any business environment.

2.    What do people who get degrees in this field usually go on to do for work?

People usually go on to work for high profile companies such as Pepsi Co, Goldman Sachs, and many companies on Wall Street. At these companies they serve in the financial, marketing, accounting, or human resource departments and serve as leaders as well.

3.    What drew you to this field?

What drew me to this field is the earning potential as well as the interest I had in how the markets worked and also being able to be social in my job.

4.    Name three of the leaders/most exciting people involved in this field right now in 2016. Why are they interesting or exciting to you? These could be individual people or specific companies, organizations, businesses or non-profits. Hyperlink us to a homepage professional website for each person, if possible.

Amazon is doing very interesting work because they are innovating their field and are consistently a top name in business. What’s interesting is that they are almost always losing ground in the stock market. AT&T recently acquired DirecTV. Whenever a major company acquires another, it is huge news and it will be interesting to see how things progress. Tesla is also coming up with very interesting ways on how companies can become more innovative.

5.    What are the names of three leading academic/scholarly journals in your field? Where are they published? Give us the names and locations of at least 3. (HINT: If you have no idea what the answer to this question is, try Googling “What are the top academic journals in [insert field of study]?” and peruse the results). Make the titles of each journal into a working hyperlink to the website for that publication. (NOTE: if your links aren’t included or don’t work or if the page it directs us to is blocked from public view, I will not be able to assign you full credit for this exercise).

Academy of Management Review, Journal of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies.

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