Teaching Portfolio/Summary
Charles B. (Brad) Shrader
Ralph and Jean Eucher Faculty Fellow in
Business Ethics
ISU College of Business
Summary of teaching evaluations
From 1984 to 2008
• The ISU College of Business uses a standard twenty-item
student evaluation instrument. The overall or summary score
ranges from 1-5 (lower is better)
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1 = excellent
2 = good
3 = average
4 = below average
5 = poor
• My average overall score for 125 courses taught at ISU = 1.26
• My 2005 average for eight MBA modules/courses = 1.19
(2004 college averages = 1.94 undergrad; 1.53 grad)
My Teaching Evaluations from Spring of 2009 to fall of 2011
5 = Excellent
4 = Above Average
3 = Average
2 = Below Average
1 = Poor
Year
Semester
Course
No.
Section
Score
Respondents
2011
Fall
Mgmt
503
A
4.88
32
2011
Summer
Mgmt
581
XA
4.67
15
2011
Spring
Mgmt
419
A
4.87
30
2011
Spring
Mgmt
590
CS
4.95
7
2011
Spring
Mgmt/
Acct
582
A
4.73
4.77
37
30
2010
Spring
Mgmt
377
A
4.7
43
2010
Spring
Mgmt
511
R3
4.83
42
2010
Spring
Mgmt
582
XA
4.87
15
2010
Fall
Mgmt
584
XA
4.92
25
2010
Fall
Mgmt
377
A
4.71
17
2009
Spring
Mgmt
377
A
4.77
39
2009
Spring
Mgmt
377
B
4.89
18
2009
Summer
Mgmt
582
XA
4.81
26
2009
Fall
Mgmt
501
R
4.89
38
2009
Fall
Mgmt
501
XA
4.78
37
2009
Fall
Mgmt
511
XA
4.66
38
2009
Fall
Mgmt
584
B
4.62
39
2009
Fall(Intersession)
Mgmt
590
XA
4.72
29
Total courses:
18
Average Score:
4.79
Summary --
Courses taught
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Professional Responsibility in Business and Soceity (Iowa State – MBA)
Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (Iowa State, Tulane University,
undergraduate and graduate)
Strategy Formation (Iowa State, Tulane University – graduate)
Management Consulting (Iowa State – graduate)
Corporate Governance and Leadership (Iowa State – graduate)
Strategic Planning and Environmental Analysis (Iowa State – graduate)
Strategic Management (Indiana, Texas Tech, Iowa State, graduate and
undergraduate)
Competitive Strategy (Iowa State, undergraduate)
Course coordinator, Legal, Social, and Political Environment of Business (Iowa
State, graduate)
Introduction to Management (Indiana, Texas Tech, Iowa State, undergraduate)
Organization and Management (Indiana, undergraduate)
Organizational Behavior (Indiana, Iowa State, undergraduate)
Organization Theory (Indiana, Texas Tech, Iowa State, graduate and
undergraduate)
New courses developed
• Professional Responsibility (MBA core course)
• Management consulting (MBA elective)
• Competitive strategy (undergraduate
management major)
• Member of team that developed MBA core
modules (strategy formation, business ethics,
and strategic management)
MBA program development
• MBA service learning - Des Moines YMCA,
Story County United Way, MBA consulting
project
• ISU MBA internal case competition – Charles
B. Handy case competition coordinator
• Murray Bacon Center for Ethics in Business –
Bacon Fellow program
Graduate student supervision
• Member of over 80 masters thesis
committees since 1984
• Member of 12 dissertation committees since
1984
• Major professor for 8 thesis committees
• Actively involved in directed study and
international education
Executive education
• Saturday ISU MBA Program, Instructor, 1993-2006
• Evening ISU MBA Program, Instructor, 1999-20012
• Tulane University Executive MBA instructor, business ethics,
Houston - 2004, New Orleans – 2005-2008
• Iowa School of Banking, Business Ethics 2nd-year student
instructor, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids 1995-2000, 2002-2004,
2006-2008
• Instructor and Program Development, Shaping the Future,
Strategic Planning for Iowa CEOs, College of Business,
McGladry and Pullen, SBDC, CIRAS, 1991-97
• Pioneer HI-BRED, Instructor, Case development and seminars
on current thinking in competitive strategy, Vegetable Seeds
and Marketing departments and for top 28 managers, 1990,
1995, 1997
Teaching awards/recognition
National Awards/Recognition
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Tulane University, Award for Teaching Excellence, New Orleans EMBA, 2007
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Best Paper, Decision Sciences Institute Journal of Innovative Education, with G. Koppenhaver, 2004
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Case Research Journal, classic case distinction – Walt Disney Productions 1984, with J. D. Hunger, 2003
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Nominee, Robert Foster Cherry National Award for Great Teaching, Iowa State University, 2002
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Random House/McGraw Hill Award for Outstanding Case Development, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, with
V. L. Blackburn, 1988
University Awards/Recognition
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Philip G. Hubbard Award for Outstanding Education, Iowa State University, 2002
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Iowa State University Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, 1998
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Iowa Legislative Teaching Award, 1989, 1991
College Awards/Recognition
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College of Business, Dean’s Advisory Council Senior Teaching Award, 2010
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College of Business, Dean’s Advisory Council Graduate Teaching Award, 2000, 2002, 2004
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College of Business, Dean’s Advisory Council Teaching Effectiveness Award, 1997
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Iowa State University, College of Business Teaching Citation, 1991
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Distinguished Teaching Award, School of Business Doctoral Program, Indiana University, 1982
Selected teaching publications
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Shrader, C. B., Ravenscroft, S. P., Kaufmann, J. B. and West, T. D. Classroom cheating and student
perceptions of ethical climate. Teaching Ethics, (forthcoming, fall 2012)
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Stotts, Michelle L., C. B. Shrader and DeMarie, S., Victory: The New American Motorcycle Celebrates its
First Decade on the Road, case and teaching note published in Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson’s strategy text
‘Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization.’ 2011.
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Loukianenko Wolfe, M. and Shrader, C. B., Educating Future CEOs: How much can we teach with a case
study? Paper presented at the Association for Business Communication, Washington, DC, October 11,
2007.
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Koppenhaver, G., Blackburn V., Palan, K., Ravenscroft, S., and Shrader, C. B. Student/Faculty connections
in the development of teaching. Teaching Brief published in the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative
Education, Vol. 2, No. 2, July 2007.
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West, T., Ravenscroft, S. P., and Shrader, C. B. Cheating and moral judgment in the college classroom: A
natural experiment. Journal of Business Ethics, 54, 2004, pp. 173-183.
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Mahanti, S., Bajwa, P., Strader, T., and Shrader, C. B. Palisade Systems: New markets for Internet security
products. Annals of Cases on Information Technology, Volume VI, 2004, pp. 229-243.
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Koppenhaver, G. D. and Shrader, C. B. Structuring the classroom for performance: Cooperative learning
with instructor-assigned teams. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2003, pp.
1-21. Winner of Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education best paper, 2003/4
Selected teaching publications
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Blackburn, V. L. and Shrader, C. B. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc. Annual Advances in Business Cases,
Midwest Society of Case Research, 1988, pp. 202-219 - nominated for best case in journal for 1988. Also
published in: Hill & Jones' Strategic Management, Houghton Mifflin, 1989, pp. 723-736; Wheelen and
Hunger's Cases in Strategic Management, Addison Wesley, 1990, pp. 650-662; Pearce and Robinson's
Strategic Management, fourth edition, Irwin publishers, 1991, pp. 826-835; Certo and Peter's Cases in
Strategic Management, 1992. Winner of McGraw-Hill Outstanding Case Development Award, 1988.
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Michaelsen, L., Watson, W. E., and Shrader, C. B., Informative testing - A practical approach for tutoring
with groups. The Organizational Behavior Teaching Review (Journal of Management Education), Vol. IX,
No.4, 1985, pp.18-33.
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Shrader, C. B., and Hunger, J. D. Walt Disney Productions - 1984. Case Research Journal, 1985, Published
by the Case Research Association, University of Georgia, pp. 79-122. Also published in: Wheelen and
Hunger's Strategic Management, Addison Wesley, second edition, 1986 pp.419-458, and third edition,
1989, pp. 469-505; Received classic case distinction and reprinted in Case Research Journal, vol. 23,
winter/spring, 2003, pp. 177-208.
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Hinrichs, S. C., Shrader C. B., and Hoffman, A.N., Harley- Davidson Inc., The eagle soars alone. Case
published in Wheelen and Hunger's Strategic Management, third edition, Addison-Wesley, 1989, pp. 451468. Also published in: Integrative case for O'Neill and Hoffman's Cases in Strategic Management, West,
1993. pp. 16-51; Hill & Jones’s Strategic Management, Houghton Mifflin,1989, pp. 473-490; Fred R.
David's Strategic Management third edition, 1991, pp.640-655; Cases in Strategic Management, Merrill
Publishing, 1991, pp. 297-312; Wheelen and Hunger's Cases in Strategic Management, Addison-Wesley,
1990, pp.562-578; Pearce and Robinson's Strategic Management, fourth edition, Irwin publishers, 1991,
pp. 634-648; J. Almaney's Strategic Management, Sheffield Publishing, 1992, pp. 293-313; Byars' Cases in
Strategic Management, Harper & Row, 1992; Ginn Press, 1992; Sheffield Publishing, 1993.
Shrader in action
Evening MBA in Des Moines
Graduate teaching award 2004
Cheating research on television
Eller Competition in Tucson
2009 MBA Trip to Europe – Aegon at the Hague
2010 College
Award with Dean
Hira