Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2019

Abstract

Undergraduate and MBA Marketing programs typically include education goals such as:

“To prepare students for a changing domestic and global business environment characterized by organizational and cultural values, diversity, opportunity, and growth.”

They also include learning objectives such as:

“Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to think strategically about the global business environment.”

Presumably this approach to educating undergraduate and MBA students will prepare them to become ‘global citizens.’ The question may be asked about what undergraduate and MBA marketing students know about changes in global extreme poverty, education access for women around the world, and number of people killed in natural disasters annually? This research utilizes the work of Hans Rosling, with his famous charts of global population, health and income data (TED Salon, Berlin June, 2014). Rosling demonstrates in his presentation that people have a high statistical chance of being wrong about what they think they know about global events. This research is designed to assess marketing students’ global knowledge on three aspects of the world they will work in.

About the Authors

Michael Latta (PhD Iowa State University) is the former Associate Dean and Associate currently Professor of Marketing in the Wall College of Business at Coastal Carolina University. He has also held business positions in sales, marketing research, product management, strategic planning, and forecasting with AstraZeneca, Boehringer Mannheim, DuPont, and Wyeth. He is also Executive Director of YTMBA, a research and strategy consulting firm specializing in Predictive Analytics.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

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