Combining Experiential and Clinical Methodologies in a Small Business Management Program

Abstract

The last five years have witnessed the development of a rebirth of interest in small business and small business management in schools of business throughout this country. While major business schools have continued to concentrate time and energy on programs designed to equip their graduates to function smoothly within the corporate infrastructure, many of their students have continued to demonstrate the high degree of personal- initiative and willingness to accept risk that have long been hallmarks of American economic endeavor, i.e., they have gone Out into the world and started businesses of their own. Faced with declining enrollment, and thus becoming ever more responsive to student interests and needs, schools of business have begun to develop undergraduate and graduate programs to train students in small business management.