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Calling all Innovative, Entrepreneurial Educators...
 
“You taught how? And it worked? I bet they didn’t expect that!”

“You had your students do what?   Talk about learning ‘out of the box’!”

“You used that theory?  Show me the OB textbook where something like this appears!”

Is your teaching provoking these sorts of responses from colleagues?  If so, you may be an entrepreneurial teacher, using novel ways to help students learn how to manage today’s organizations.  This is the conference you have been looking for.  And, we are looking for you.

It is time to jolt each other out of our preconceived notions, our assumptions, our certainties about how to educate managerial leaders. Babson College is just the place to do it.
 
Submit a proposal for engaging like-minded OB innovators in a lively exploration of one of your most disruptive and disquieting practices in the classroom or beyond.   Shake off the mind-set that this is just another call for papers with three presentations jammed in each hour.  OBTC is high talk-with, low talk-at.
 
  
We picture such bold titles as: “The Transparent Teacher: Revealing How and Why I Teach this Way”; or, “Lego Man Gone Wild” or  “Designing a Management Syllabus for 2013:  Teaching OB for Business as It Will Be, Not as It Is”.
 
You need not prepare your session in a vacuum.  Contact David Fearon, the Program Coordinator, who can connect you with veteran OBTC presenters with enviable records of upsetting academic apple carts.  They will enjoy helping you shape an unforgettable session, documented for use, if wish, in an electronic Proceedings.  Nor, do you need to wait until next June to work up your enthusiasm for this theme.  Once enrolled as a prospective presenter, you will be alerted to various electronic ways of interacting with others to “move and shake” each other from now rightup to zero hour on June 11, 2008.
 
OBTC program sessions are a mix of teaching workshops, reflective discussions on teaching and curriculum design, and demonstrations of experiential exercises.  We are looking for exciting, interactive sessions you run for 30, 60, or 90 minutes, engaging colleagues in thinking new ways to educate for a future when “tried” may no longer be “true”, and managing becomes innovating.
 
 
This is the first year that a team coordinates the OBTC.  We are:
 
David Fearon, Program Coordinator (Fearon@mail.ccsu.edu)
Keith Rollag, Babson College Co-coordinator (krollag@babson.edu)
Danna Greenberg, Babson College Co-coordinator (dgreenberg@babson.edu)
 
 

 
 
 
Submitting a Proposal
 

1. We have instituted a fully Web-based proposal submission and review process. Conference registration will also be managed from this Web-site.
   Click here to submit a proposal
   Please do not submit proposals by mail or e-mail. Only those via the online system will be considered.
2. Proposals should be no more than six pages (not including exhibits or references), and should include:
   1. Title
   2. 100 word Abstract
   3. Full description of your session concept, content, and contributions to entrepreneurial teaching, learning and organizing.
   4. Design for actively engaging participants
   5. An explanation of why you think this would be an important session for the innovation focus of this conference
   6. Proposed session length (30, 60, or 90 minutes)
   7. Any special room needs.
       
      NOTE: Proposals will be blind peer reviewed, so please ensure that the names of presenters are not included anywhere in manuscript file (not even on the title page)
       
3. Reviewers will be evaluating sessions based on originality, fit to conference theme, potential interest to conference participants, and the degree of interactivity built into the session.
4. It is the custom of OBTC’s for those of us who present to, if at all possible, attend the entire conference, so as to informally continue the learning sparked in the session.

 
 
For titles and abstracts of previous conference sessions, click here for a copy of the 2007 OBTC Program.  
 
 
Sample Proposals

Two sample proposals from previous years are available, to guide you in putting together your own proposal:
Sample Proposal 1
Sample Proposal 2