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Business Project
Guidelines
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Honors students in the College of Business are
expected to complete a thesis in their senior year
under the direction of an Honors advisor and two
other thesis committee members. The student will
enroll in HO 401 and HO 402 (which may be taken in
the Fall and Spring or Spring and the following
Fall). In the first semester of thesis work, the
student will conduct a literature review, present a
research design at the Honors poster session, and
produce a proposal. In the second semester, data are
collected, analyzed and results are written up. Upon
completion of the thesis, the student will present
his/her work at the Honors Research Symposium. (See
the rubrics for the oral presentation and written
thesis for evaluative criteria.)
The business honors student is expected to conduct
original research in a manner consistent with the
research in his/her field of interest. This may
include qualitative, quantitative, historical,
experimental, or critical analyses. Primary data are
not required, but if human subjects are involved,
data collection must conform to the Institutional
Review Board (IRB) procedures established in MUW
Policy Statement #3503. Enough time must be built
into the schedule to allow for review and approval
of the research design, measures, and procedures.
Ideally, the completed thesis will be of publishable
quality and/or suitable for presentation at a
conference in a business-related field. (Many
conferences have tracks for student-authored papers
and the average length of these is 15 pages.)
Faculty members are to provide guidance with this
goal in mind. There may be an opportunity before or
after the final MUW presentation to submit the paper
for external review and possible publication.
The proposal drafted in the first semester of thesis
work will include a title page, a clearly defined
research question, a literature review, hypotheses
(where appropriate), a proposed methodology, and
references to date. This should be five pages
minimum in length. The final thesis will include a
refined first half of the paper plus an abstract, a
completed methods section, data analysis,
discussion, results, and references. No particular
style manual is required. The student will use what
is the norm for the proposed publication outlet.
(Formatting instructions for submission to business
journals and conferences are readily available.)
Typically 12 point type and double spacing with 1”
margins are used.
An honors thesis should be 15 or more pages in
length with a minimum of 10 references cited. A
majority of the references should be from
peer-reviewed business journals and infrequently
from popular business periodicals. Again an
abstract, tables, charts, the body of the paper and
references should be formatted in a style consistent
with major business journals. Appendices are to be
used when necessary to include additional, relevant
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