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Article: The Orange County Register, Calif., First Job Column.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- March 26, 2001
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By Jan Norman, The Orange County Register, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 26--FAROUK ABDELWAHED, A MANAGEMENT professor at California State University, Fullerton, offered his senior business students a choice: Do a research report from documents on a large public company or spend triple the time on a consulting project working directly with small-business owners.
Five students in the fall 1999 class chose the second option, working hundreds of hours with Maldonado & Associates, a printer in Orange.
The payoff was more than their A grade.
Their project just won national honors as the top Undergraduate Comprehensive ...