Business executives often tell collegiate business schools that business problems are interdisciplinary and students need to be better able to integrate business disciplines. Our faculty responded to this environment by developing an innovative business core curriculum. This curriculum pushes the frontier of business education beyond efforts currently in existence at any major U.S. research university.

• It is innovative because it replaces traditional core courses in accounting, finance, marketing, management, and information systems with integrated courses based on business processes that must be in place for any organization to be successful.
• The faculty of the Walton College has committed to develop this curriculum and to develop the faculty capability to teach interdisciplinary courses without team teaching. The faculty commitment to develop their capability to teach outside their functional specialty is the second major innovation in this new curriculum.

This curriculum will push the frontier of business curriculum integration beyond efforts currently in existence at any major U.S. research university.
The following files comprise a report that summarizes:

• The structure of the new curriculum and the content of the core courses, including outlines and learning objectives
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• the process of developing the curriculum revision proposal and,
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• the policies and procedures that are necessary to implement this major change in the core curriculum of the Walton College. Link to Curriculum Implementation
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