Managerial Forensics

Chapter 1

Introduction

J. Mark Munoz and Diana Heeb Bivona

The idea for managerial forensics sprung from a recent curriculum redesign effort in a business school at a private university in the U.S. Midwest. As educators, an emphasis needed to be placed on ensuring that the curriculum prepared students for whatever business endeavors they elected to pursue after graduating. As a performance-based institution, teaching students practical, hands-on, relevant techniques and applications was the school’s hallmark. Therefore, with each course, the standard question is, “What tools do we want students to have?”

The authors envisioned a course that would serve as a critical thinking performance lab of sorts for understanding the complexity of business ...