Students will sign-up for a specific topic/chapter to research an article on during Week 1. They will then choose a current news article (no more than 1 year old) and prepare a short presentation about the article. Choose articles from one of the following publications (local/regional publications are also fine): Business Week Forbes Fortune Harvard Business Review Inc. New York Times Public Administration Review Wall Street Journal ________________________________________ There are four objectives for this assignment: 1) to challenge you a bit in thinking about how these traditional theories and practices have continued to aid even modern management thinking; 2) to enhance your skills at organizing and presenting academic information to a group of your peers; and 3) to allow you to explore in depth a topic that interests you (perhaps picking a week that interests you will help with your final research paper?). 4) to increase your technological acumen by asking you to learn new marketable skills for producing educational content.