Comments on: What's a good panel discussion topic for college business students?

Question: What's a good panel discussion topic for college business students?

archimago — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:28:12 -0800

Help me come up with a topic for a panel discussion. I've gathered 4 business industry professionals/analysts to participate in a panel discussion for my students studying business. I want to make the topic something that will be interesting to the upperclassmen who have been studying business for a while but also accessible to the freshmen.

Any suggestions for a topic? My brain is seriously fried lately and anything I come up with sounds trite and boring.

By: misanthropicsarah

misanthropicsarah — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:30:14 -0800

What's the one thing you wish you'd learned in business school?

By: biffa

biffa — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:24:14 -0800

Corporate Social Responsibility.
Corporate Ethics.
Business and the Environment.

By: gfrobe

gfrobe — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:26:40 -0800

What fields are the 4 industry professionals in? And can you be a bit more specific about the classes these students may have participated in? It would be useful if the 4 professionals could discuss real world examples of topics that the students have learned.

By: lisaj32

lisaj32 — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:32:47 -0800

to elaborate on biffa's answer,

What Business Are We In? Making Money? Or. . . ?

By: Secret Life of Gravy

Secret Life of Gravy — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:41:30 -0800

What are common misperceptions about our industry (or our field) and how can we change them?

How will business change in the next 20 years, and how can we acquire the skills we need to adapt?

What goals are necessary to achieve our full potential?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:29:47 -0800

What were you doing when you were freshmen?

What's the biggest lie they told you in college about business? (or some more politic way of saying that)

What are the biggest external challenges you are facing?

Internet, sucks or rules for business? Why?

By: junkbox

junkbox — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:30:29 -0800

Corporate Social Responsibility is a great topic -- if your panelists have knowledge and experience in that area of business. Since you've already chosen your 4 panelists, I'd save CSR for a later discussion, when you can bring in panelists who are experts in that field, and choose something more general for this discussion.

Any topic involving globalization and international business would probably interest your upperclassmen. A discussion of the pros and cons of Sarbannes-Oxley and the possible repercussions of the SEC's new suggested regulations might also be useful.

By: karmaville

karmaville — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:37:16 -0800

How do you or your company innovate?

By: zia

zia — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:51:48 -0800

what would a carbon credit system do to each one of their businesses? How would it change their manufacturing system in the short term and long term?