Abdul Ali

"Ali's poems consistently engage black history and pop culture as windows into more personal, yet deeply political, realms: 'Begin with a shooting,/ a controversial art exhibit, a mob throwing dung at the Black Madonna'. . . Ali's willful, complex collection marks him as a poet to watch."- Publisher's Weekly

*Emphasizes applied Inter-disciplinary approach in business context- Provides increased motivation in classroom and linkage to other courses outside the classroom.*Includes guided analysis and open-ended discussion questions at the end of each case- Provides necessary analysis framework for introductory student, as well as requires the student to think beyond the "output" and discuss managerial interpretation of results.*Contains marketing survey and several data sets of recent and real data- Provides good examples of real-world applications and sources of data. *Organizes cases in the sequence of topics typically taught in a basic business statistics course- Provides sequential series of cases/labs, many of which use the same data set, thus providing continuity across topics.