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Help with Finding Topics for Class Assignments

Finding a Topic

Browse a Website

One way to find a topic is to browse websites specific to your area of interest.  Go to any of the websites below and look for articles and headlines on something that interests you.  While most of these articles will not provide in depth information, they can be a great starting point, inspiring you to explore a topic or issue in more depth.

Stream Videos and Podcasts

Watch a documentary or video on a topic that interests you.  As you watch, note names of people who are interviewed or discussed, places visited and issues explored.  Doing this can help you take the next step in focusing your topic and exploring it in more depth.

Business and Public Admin Topics

  • academic preparation & job performance
  • access for people with disabilities
  • accounting forensics 
  • advertising "puff"
  • Affirmative Action
  • airline safety
  • arson
  • bailout 
  • bank failures
  • bank mergers
  • bankruptcy
  • bias in promotions
  • "big box" stores
  • biotechnology
  • bombings
  • branding
  • building security
  • business ethics
  • claims adjustment
  • coinage
  • communal experiments
  • competition in business
  • competitive intelligence
  • consumer risk
  • consumerism
  • controversial advertising on TV
  • copycat products
  • core competencies
  • corporate crime
  • corporate culture
  • corporate social responsibility
  • COVID-19 and the economy 
  • credit card fraud
  • credit crisis
  • customer competencies
  • dangerous equipment
  • data mining
  • data security
  • dating in the work place
  • deregulation
  • disaster preparedness
  • diversity 
  • Dow--how high/low will it go?
  • downsizing
  • downtown revitalization
  • dress code
  • e commerce
  • econometrics
  • economic depressions
  • economic recession
  • economic stimulus approaches
  • effect of 9/11 on airline industry
  • emotional intelligence
  • employee benefit planning
  • employee empowerment
  • employee theft
  • employing people with disabilities
  • employment equity
  • empowerment
  • estate planning
  • European community
  • factory farms
  • family farms--future/viablity of
  • farm diversification
  • farm subsidies
  • farmers as entrepreneurs
  • farming in less developed countries
  • fashion industry
  • ferries
  • fish farming
  • flat tax
  • forecasting
  • foreign exchange
  • franchises
  • funding for nonprofit organizations
  • glass ceiling (men vs. women salary gap)
  • global food crisis
  • great recession 
  • harrassment
  • healthcare reform 
  • HOV lanes
  • housing market crash 
  • housing sales 
  • human resources
  • identity theft
  • imports from China
  • increased farm production--at what cost?
  • intellectual capital
  • internships
  • job sculpting
  • knowledge management
  • labor disputes
  • land development's effect on farms
  • landfills
  • the learning organization
  • lie detectors
  • light rail
  • low-income housing
  • mail-order businesses
  • mall trends
  • mandatory drug testing
  • marketing ethics
  • marketing lies
  • marketing on the World Wide Web
  • mentoring
  • mergers
  • micro-cap investing
  • mortgage crisis
  • national debt 
  • the new economy
  • oil price factors
  • on-site day care 
  • organigraphs
  • outsourcing
  • "own label" products
  • paperless society?
  • parks administration
  • petroleum price fluctuations
  • philanthropy
  • precision farming
  • product shrinkage
  • public unions 
  • Quality Circles
  • recession
  • recovery 
  • recycling programs
  • regional planning
  • reinsurance
  • retirement planning
  • reverse performance appraisals
  • risk management
  • scams
  • service initiatives
  • service recovery
  • sex sells
  • sexual harassment
  • shared services model
  • shellfish industry in Virginia
  • short-term financing
  • social media in advertising
  • social media influencers
  • social security 
  • standardizing of weights & measures
  • the Starbucks Effect
  • strategic human resource management
  • strategic planning
  • strikes
  • subliminal advertising
  • subprime 
  • succession management
  • Super Bowl TV advertising
  • superstores
  • sustainability
  • taxation 
  • team leadership
  • telecommuting
  • telemarketing
  • terrorism--effects on business
  • tipping
  • tobacco industry
  • Total Quality Management
  • tourism
  • traffic congestion
  • traffic management
  • transportation solutions
  • troubled employees
  • underage workers
  • underwriting
  • unemployment
  • unions
  • urban transit
  • war--effect on economy
  • wellness in the workplace
  • whistle blowing
  • work ethic
  • work week length
  • work/life ratio
  • working poor
  • workplace ambiance & atmosphere
  • workplace violence
  • zoning