Glossary
Business Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential business professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key business professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in business professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- AACSB
- Business school accreditation.
- Adjunct
- Part-time instructor.
- Capstone
- Final course project.
- Case method
- Teaching with real business cases.
- Executive education
- Courses for professionals.
- Learning outcomes
- What students should learn.
- Market segmentation
- Dividing customers into groups.
- Net present value
- Value of future cash flows today.
- Office hours
- Time for students.
- Peer review
- Expert review of research.
- Sabbatical
- Paid leave for research.
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
- Syllabus
- Course plan.
- Tenure
- Permanent faculty status.
- Tenure track
- Path to tenure.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Business Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Business Professor training.
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