MBA Research Support

MBA Research and Curriculum Center is making changes to the FBLA Competitive Event Crosswalks to make them even more useful to teachers when preparing students for competitive events. The new crosswalks include MBA Research performance indicators aligned to tasks from the FBLA Competency Lists, along with Learning Activity Packages (LAPs) available to teach those performance indicators.

See below for updated 2024 crosswalks to select events:

• Accounting 1 & 2

• Advertising

• Banking & Financial Systems

• Business Calculations

• Business Communication

• Business Law

• Business Management

• Economics

• Entrepreneurship

• Hospitality & Event Management

• Organizational Leadership

• Personal Finance

• Securities & Investments

• Sports & Entertainment Management

• Supply Chain Management

Additional support for utilizing MBA Research Curriculum Resources is available.  Educators can email Cathy Hoehn to schedule a time to explore and unwrap the resources that can enhance their classroom instruction and Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) competitive events preparation.

🎉 They're here! We're so excited to share that our new middle school career exploration modules are ready for download! This 10-module series, which emphasizes both introspective and experiential skills, is now available FREE to educators across the country, thanks to the generosity of the Daniels Fund. 

MBA Research - Course Package: Middle School Career Exploration (Download) #BB-CG12-34 (mbashop.org) 

They’re finally here! We’re thrilled to announce that our first two ready-to-use lesson modules (LAPs) are now available!

LAP-PR-463 Behind the Screen (Ethics in Digital Marketing)

• • This LAP includes discussion on why ethics in digital marketing are important, the impact of digital marketing on a company’s reputation, and relevant ethical dilemmas that digital marketers must navigate.

LAP-CM-006 The Right Path (Ethics in Channel Management)

• • This LAP explains the importance of ethics in channel management, ethical issues associated with channel management, and ethical practices that marketers can employ when overseeing the movement of goods into the hands of consumers.

Access for free: Thanks to the generosity of the Daniels Fund, both LAPs are available free of charge as part of the Ethical Leadership Course Package.

The Ethical Leadership for Middle-Level Students badging exam is now available. The exam assesses a student's knowledge of foundational ethics concepts and skills, including the ethical principles of respect, responsibility, integrity, transparency, fairness, trust, rules and laws, and viability.

Designed for students in grades 6-8, the test contains 30 multiple-choice items.  Students who score 70% or higher on the exam earn a Middle-Level Ethical Leadership digital badge.

Request the free ethics exam by emailing the teacher name, email, school and school address to the MBA Research and Curriculum Center service email address.

To prepare students for the exam, download the free ethical leadership for middle-level students course guide and the 10 accompanying instructional modules. 

We’re excited to share that MBA Research Personal Finance course guide has recently been revised! This one-semester course develops students' understanding and skills in areas such as setting financial goals, earning income, budgeting, spending, saving, managing credit, insurance, and investing.  Personal Finance features student activities, ethics cases, multiple-choice test items, a financial-literacy project, and resource lists to support instruction.

Access for free: Thanks to the Daniels Fund, you can download the MBA Research - Course Guide: Personal Finance  at no charge.

How would you answer? 

The Gray Zone ethical dilemmas from our Learning Activity Packages (LAPs) introduce students to problems and situations that don’t have one specific right or wrong answer. Use the following prompt from LAP-PD-126 Ideas in Action (Innovation Skills) to explore one dilemma related to the positives and negatives of innovation:

• Shia, an engineer at a factory, is building an automated machine that will change the way his company makes its products. The company is depending on Shia’s engineering talent to increase production by 50%. The new machine will save the company a ton of money and increase profits.

• However, it will also eliminate the jobs of many people who work on the factory floor. While Shia is reviewing his blueprints for the machine, he discovers away to redesign it for an even larger production increase of 70%. Shia wants to help his company be the best it can be, but he also doesn’t want to see even more dedicated employees lose their jobs.

Discussion Questions:

1. Should Shia redesign the machine for the biggest increase in production? 

2. Are lost jobs just one of the collateral costs of innovation?

3. Do the positives of innovation always outweigh the negatives?

Looking for more? 

Thanks to the generosity of the Daniels Fund, you can access over 70 LAPs for free as part of the Ethical Leadership Course Package.