Geoffrey G. Bell, Ph.D., CA

Student Resource Centre

This web-site is intended to help my students with their class work. I am arranging it in the following sections: common content, strategy content, and ethics content. The common conent provides information useful to all of my students. The strategy and ethics sections provides course-specific content.

Common content:

For access to a list of useful web-sites, click here. Jim Vileta, our business research librarian, also maintains an outstanding site that you can use to connect to many useful web-site. You can access Jim's site here.

I provide access to my overheads in Microsoft PowerPoint format for all my students. If you do not have PowerPoint, you can download a free PowerPoint viewer directly from Microsoft. To access the viewer, click here.

The Department of Management Studies regards plagiarism as a serious offense. There have been several recent examples in the media of problems associated with plagiarism. One real problem is that people can "fall into" plagiarizing without meaning to by not paraphrasing or quoting other works correctly. We want to help students overcome these pitfalls. To read the department's unofficial statement on on plagiarism, as well as some helpful hints on avoiding problems, click here.

Some students have indicated that a guide to case analysis would be useful. Here it is. (Please note - this is still very rough. Any comments / suggestions you have for improvement would be greatly appreciated!)

I know that some of you access UMD resources from non-UMD internet service providers (Charter Communications and the like). Of course, one of the problems is getting the UMD servers to recognize you as a legitimate UMD user. One of my students has compiled a useful document outlining how to use VPN software which allows you to access UMD content from non-UMD ISPs. For the document, click here.

MgtS 4461: Business & Society (Business Ethics)

For a copy of the Fall 2005 syllabus, click here. If you prefer, you can access it in PDF format here. Please note that the Ethics student survey is now included on the ethics syllabus file.

For a copy of the course grading guide, please click here.

For the student assignment questions, please click here.

Mgts 4481: Strategic Management

For a copy of the Fall 2005 course syllabus, click here. If you prefer a PDF version, you can get one here.

If you need a duplicate copy of the student survey, they're now available as part of the syllabus.

Guidelines for the individual take home assignment will soon be available by clicking here.

Guidelines for the group project are now available by clicking here.

Mgts 4495: Cooperative Strategy (last offered Spring 2005)

For a copy of the course syllabus, click here.

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