... SMIF clearly demonstrates how a student-led development of an ESG framework provides the setting for effective, experiential learning. Originality/value This study shows that while traditional teaching settings, like lectures, may be slow to adapt to the rapidly changing needs of industry...

...Kobana Abukari; Erin Oldford; Neal Willcott Purpose In recent years, student-managed investment funds (SMIFs), experiential learning programs at an increasing number of universities, have attracted significant scholarly interest. In this article, we review the academic literature on this pedagogy...

...Philip English; Rachel Gordon Purpose This paper introduces a new instructional design for executive programs that combined a flipped classroom methodology and experiential learning to address the challenge of teaching highly technical material in a compressed time frame. In practice, when...

...Naomi E. Boyd; Gulnara R. Zaynutdinova; Michael Burdette; Nathan Burks Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand the domain of experiential learning by sharing the experiences of establishing and developing student managed investment fund (SMIF) at West Virginia University (WVU). Design...

... and the specific Program at UTM. Findings The Investment Challenge Program is a valuable experiential learning opportunity for finance majors at UTM. Participating students enhance their portfolio management knowledge, their written and oral communication skills, and their employment opportunities. Research...

..., experiential learning connects a strong curriculum to a “real world” problem outside the classroom to teach students the “how” and facilitates interaction between students and community members so that students become comfortable in a professional setting. It can be challenging to develop a meaningful...