Modern business school facilities often include various forms of applied learning spaces in which business students can receive “hands-on” experience with career-related activities in a risk-free environment.

Examples of a variety of applied learning spaces are provided below:

Behavioral Research Laboratories

The China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)
Hosts a behavioral laboratory designed to facilitate, through a board-room set-up and one-way mirrors, behavioral experiments, and scenario simulation.

University of Maryland
Smith School of Business
Netcentric Behavioral Lab
The Netcentric Behavioral Lab complements an adjacent Eye Tracking Lab and Team Processing Lab.

University of Texas at Austin
McCombs School of Business
Behavioral Research Lab
The behavioral lab facilities at the McCombs School are extensive and well equipped with the technological enhancements necessary for the conduct of research.

University of Virginia
Darden School of Business
Behavioral Research at Darden (BRAD) Lab
The BRAD Lab is an interdisciplinary behavioral research lab, located within the Darden School, but designed to be a shared asset for all UVA faculty and students engaged in behavioral research.

Financial Markets Labs and Simulated Trading Floors

Trading floors and financial labs are among the most common forms of specialized instructional spaces.These spaces are designed to allow business students to hone their stock-market trading skills and apply learned theory in a risk-free setting.

American University in Cairo
Citadel Capital Financial Services Center
Representing AUC’s strong focus on linking theory and practice, the enter is equipped with technological capabilities the equal of any business school trading floor in the world.

University of Maryland
Smith School of Business
Netcentric Financial Markets Teaching Theater and Data Center
The second of three components of the Smith School’s Netcentricity Laboratories, the Financial Markets Lab consists of a teaching theater for classes and a data center for student and faculty research and practice.

University of Michigan
Ross School of Business
Tozzi Electronic Business and Finance Center
The hands-on experience provided by the Tozzi Center includes a student-managed fund for which the technology of the center provides both raw data-gathering and financial analysis capabilities.

University of Pittsburgh
Katz Graduate School of Business & College of Business Administration
Financial Analysis Laboratory
The lab features a financial-trading simulator, stock tickers, tote display boards, 58 computer stations, live news feeds, and classroom space for both undergraduate and graduate financial analysis courses.

University of Reading
Henley Business School
International Capital Market Association (ICMA) Centre
Henley’s ICMA Centre contains state-of-the-art facilities, which allow students to gain experience managing stock portfolios using live pricing data.

Moot Boardrooms

Moot boardrooms mimic the corporate boardroom setting to host simulated discussions and corporate presentations. Most of these rooms have capacity for observers either within the room or connected via Internet feed.

St. Joseph’s University
Haub School of Business
Mandeville Hall
The school houses two boardrooms with a Moot Observation Room and Moot Control Room between them.

Drexel University
Lebow College of Business
The school houses six moot boardrooms with ceiling-level projectors for monitoring and remote operation.

Ithaca College
School of Business
Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise
The school houses a moot boardroom in which students can practice their corporate presentation skills.

Other

Michigan State University
Eli Broad College of Business
IBM On-Demand Supply Chain Center
The IBM Supply Chain Management lab not only allows Broad College graduate students and faculty to test theory using live supply chain data, it is also linked to an interconnected grid of partner business schools which also have a strong focus on supply chain management, including Smeal College of Business at Penn State University, the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, Smurfit School of Business at University College Dublin, and the National University of Singapore.

Rutgers University
Rutgers Business School
Food Innovation Center Business Incubator
This incubator for food-based businesses is a 23,000 sq. ft. facility that houses “shared-use food processing space for a broad array of products and processes, marketing capabilities and technical laboratories, distance learning and educational programming, and administrative space for staff as well as clients.”