Uptick Rule – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is the Uptick Rule?The uptick rule is a law created by the Securities Exchange Commission to impose trading restrictions on short sale transactions of securities. It required the short sale transactions of securities to be entered at a higher price than in the...

Finance Concentration – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

What is a Finance Concentration?The study of finance generally concerns aspects of analysis and decision-making. In its basic form, finance concerns how to pay for something. Finance as a discipline, however, is much broader. It can include work with (issuing or...

Marketing Concentration – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

What is a Marketing Concentration?Marketing primarily concerns understanding the potential customer or client. Students learn about methods of identifying, segmenting, and targeting potential customers. They also learn about methods of researching consumers,...

Management Concentration – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

What are Management Courses?Management concerns the introduction of theories related to maintaining, supporting, in administering resources. Specific areas of management practice might include: information systems, human resources, leadership, international business,...

Business Internships – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

Internships are Important for Business StudentsI’m going to start this article with a shocking statement. The most important thing you can do in business school is to graduate. The second most important thing is to undertake as many internship experiences as...

MBA Programs – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

How Does an MBA Help Your Career?An MBA, or Master of Business Administration, has long been heralded as a highly beneficial (if not essential) degree for business practitioners. Below are the things you should understand about the degree.What Do You Learn?The MBA...

Benefits of a Business Degree – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

What are the Benefits of a Business Degree?A business degree creates a signaling function to employers that entails the following benefits: Formal Credentials Exposure to Knowledge Talent or Skills General Intelligence Diligence or Work Ethic Fit (Beliefs, Interests,...

Employment – Your Professional Brand

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

What is Your Professional Brand?Lets start by defining, what is Your Professional Brand. Basically, its how others perceive you in terms of professional knowledge, acumen, aspiration, work ethic, accomplishment, and association. Others form this perception of you...

Employment – Fit, Bias, and Overcoming

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

How to Overcome the Tendency of Employers to Show Bias in Searching for Fit when HiringI teach a course on professionalism. The course covers etiquette, personal motivation, career paths, networking, interviewing, and other things. The most impactful topic that we...

Competency & Fit in Hiring – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Professionalism & Career Development

What are Employers Looking for when Hiring?In this article, we discuss the two primary factors employers consider when making the decision of who to hire – Competence & Fit. In our article, Opportunity Generation, Recognition, & Exploitation, we talked...