Business and Executive Programs

Graduate School of Management and Technology

Dr. Monica S. Bolesta
Program Director & Collegiate Full Graduate Faculty, Business and Executive Programs

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Courses Instructed

AMBA 600 MBA Fundamentals
AMBA 601 The Role of Managers and Organizations in Society
AMBA 604 Technology and Operations Management
AMBA 605 Economics of Management Decisions
AMBA 606 Organizations And External Environments
DMGT 725 Problem Solving and Practical Research Design
ADMN 638 Research Methods for Managers

Brief Statement About Instructor

Dr. Monica S. Bolesta has spent the last several years teaching undergraduate, graduate, and professional students the skills necessary to succeed in a teaching/research position. She has served as the program director for the MBA Fundamentals course at UMUC for the last five years. In 2003 she won the Stanley J. Drazek Teacher of the Year Award and the MBA Excellence Award for University of Maryland University College. Her educational background and prior experience within the biomedical/pharmaceutical research area using advanced principles within global environments, organizational processes, IT management, experimental design, measurement, statistical analysis, and survey methodology provide her with the necessary skills to integrate real world experience within a teaching framework.

Publications

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Hartigan, R. & Bolesta, M. (August 2005) Hot and Bothered: Critically Reframing Assumptions About the Legal Environment of Business with Lessons From the McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case . MBA and Executive Programs, Graduate School, University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Academy of Legal Studies in Business Conference, San Francisco, California.

Ross, J., Backhaus, W., Bolesta, M., Creed, A., Gupta, A., Stewart, J., Booth, B. (July, 2005) Engaging the Global Community - Looking Over the Horizon, Nashville. Submitted - Workshop Proposal: A Critique of Collegial Collaboration:. MBA and Executive Programs, Graduate School, University of Maryland University College (UMUC). MERLOT 5th International Conference.

Ross, J., Stewart, J., Backhaus, W., Bolesta, M., Creed, A., Hladik, M. (July, 2005) Faculty Collaboration in Teaching Global Business, MBA Teaching Process: A Case Analysis of Collaborative Communication Applied as a Teaching Preparation Resource in a module of the Online MBA. Academy of International Business, Annual Conference, Quebec City.

Ross, J., Stewart, J., Backhaus, W., Bolesta, M., Creed, A., Hladik, M. (May, 2005) From Dubai to Edmonton, via Australia, Germany, UK and UMUC - USA: A Community of Learning in MBA Education - creating effective online teaching as a transformational activity. McGraw Hill Ryerson Transformational Networks Conference, Edmonton: Creating Learning Communities.

Ross, J., Stewart, J., Backhaus, W., Bolesta, M., Creed, A., Hladik, M. (October, 2004) Collaboration as a Model for Online Education. INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting, Denver, Back to OR Roots, Science & Technology.

Honors/Awards

Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Award in 2003
MBA Teaching Excellence Award in 2003