Mobtc

MOBTC will return as an in-person conference in March 2023. See mobtc.org for details as they appear.

Dear Friends of the MOBTC:
The 35th Annual Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference was held on Zoom on April 10, 2021. We hope to be back as an in-person conference in March of 2022. In addition, we may continue the new tradition of a November Virtual Conversation in the Fall of 2021. More on that later as plans develop. For updated info please see our website mobtc.org
Best wishes:
Steve Meisel

MOBTC 2016 is coming on March 19th. The theme for this year is "Closing the Circuit – Energy, Resistance, and Learning in Management Education." The meeting will be held on the La Salle University campus in Philadelphia. For information on how to get the call for papers or to get on our emailing list, email Steve Meisel at [email protected]

MOBTC 2015 is coming on March 2oth and 21st! For information of how to register and how to find us in Newtown, Bucks County, PA email Steve Meisel at [email protected]

MOBTC 2014 is in the rear view mirror but...the 2015 MOBTC is set for March 20th and 21st at the La Salle Executive Education Center in Newtown, Bucks County, PA. For comments, questions, or to share your ideas for the conference theme, email Steve Meisel at: [email protected]

Drexel Campus Map for MOBTC 2014 - parking and conference location highlighted

Planning for the 2014 MOBTC just 2 weeks and a little bit from today. Send your registration to Joan Weiner at Drexel and be eligible for valuable prizes. Not really! No prizes but a good conference program lined up with some interesting new experiential exercises plus some thought provoking roundtable discussions on creating connections.

Photos courtesy of Kent Fairfield

Photo credit: Kent Fairfield

Photos from the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference

Call for papers: MOBTC 2014

28th Mid-Atlantic Organizational Teaching Conference
“Creating Connections”

Drexel University, LeBow College of Business
Philadelphia, Pa.
Saturday, 22 March 2014*

Proposal deadline – Wednesday, February 5, 2014

As management educators we live in in a network of connections to students, knowledge communities, institutions, organizations, and society. We create connections to help us enhance our students’ development and our goal is to connect students to concepts and concepts to the practice of Management. We connect to our students on a personal basis and by using new technologies. How do we create these important and rich connections? How do we connect our own contributions to the learning process to our colleagues?

We would like to create some conversations about making these connections. For MOBTC-2014, we are seeking proposals for sessions that demonstrate how to connect students to their professions, emerging knowledge, society, and to themselves as they develop their capacities.

Guidelines for Submissions of Proposals

Your proposal (3 pages maximum) should state 1) what you will do, 2) how you will do it, 3) equipment you will need, and 4) how much time you will need. Alternatively, you can join a Roundtable Discussion (see below). The conference rooms will have all the normal presentation technology plus access to full computer labs, but please tell us what you are planning to do and what you will need. Proposals on topics other than the conference theme are also welcome.
Session presentations should be a demonstration for class use rather than a description of what was done. Please plan for the active involvement of session participants. Proposals should be original and not under concurrent consideration or scheduled for presentation elsewhere.

Guidelines for Submission for Roundtable Discussions

- You might have some ideas about our theme but not sure if it would be a full proposal. In that case, please consider being one of our Round Table Discussion panelists.
- The topic of the Roundtable Discussions will be “Creating Connections.” We hope to have 15-20 people commit to appearing on the program as co-presenters for two Roundtables.

If you have a suggestion for a different topic, please contact the Program Committee with your idea. The Round Table sessions will begin with each person making a 1-minute idea statement. The remaining time will be a facilitated discussion.

If you have questions concerning the format or development of your idea for a session, please email one of the steering committee members listed below.
Please send your completed proposals to Joan Weiner ([email protected]).

*Preconference reception, Friday evening, March 21, 2014 – Location TBA
DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING PROGRAM PROPOSALS is Wednesday, February 5, 2014

The 2014 MOBTC Program Committee
Joan Weiner ([email protected]), Steve Meisel ([email protected]), Stuart Schmidt [email protected], Joe Seltzer ([email protected], and in spirit, Gil Boyer

Drexel – LeBow College of Business Host Committee
Joan Weiner and Michele Masterfano