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Business schools are increasingly establishing MBA business analytics programs. This article discusses the importance of a sufficient body of knowledge about databases for MBA business analytics students. It presents the pedagogical design and the teaching method of a module of database-centric OLAP (online analytical process) for an MBA business analytics course when a standalone database course is infeasible for the MBA business analytics program. The teaching module includes key database concepts for business analytics, a tutorial on database-centric OLAP, and a database-centric OLAP exercise assignment. The teaching module demands about a half-credit-hour workload and can be embedded in a three-credit-hour MBA business analytics course.
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Business schools;
Data models;
Mathematical analysis;
Computer science;
Analytics;
Workload;
Relational data bases;
Data base management systems;
Query formulation;
Modules;
Core curriculum;
Structured Query Language-SQL;
Database design;
Education;
Graduate students;
Workloads;
Big Data;
Business intelligence;
Knowledge management;
Information systems;
Business analytics;
Datasets;
Visualization;
Statistical analysis;
Design;
Queries;
MBA programs & graduates;
Databases;
Business;
Credit;
Business students;
Teaching methods
1 Charlton College of Business University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth Dartmouth, MA 02747, USA [email protected]
2 Sobey School of Business Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS B3H 2W3, Canada [email protected]