28 Apr Experiential Learning for Strategy Courses Using Airline

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Experiential Learning for Strategy Courses Using Airline

How Prof. Calvin Lindo redesigned his course to better prepare students for real world experiences.
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Introducing Airline

Business students need more than concepts. They need practice making decisions, working through uncertainty, communicating results, and learning from the consequences of their choices.
Join us for a practical faculty webinar with Calvin Lindo, MBA, ABD, Associate Professor in the College of Business at the University of Northwestern Ohio, as he shares how he uses our Airline business simulation in a capstone course to create a more realistic, team-based learning experience for students.
Prof. Lindo redesigned his course to help students strengthen the skills business advisory and community members often say graduates need most: communication, teamwork, real-world experience, and confidence. In his course, students work in teams to manage an airline, make financial and operational decisions, analyze results, and present their performance as if reporting to a CEO.

About the Webinar

In this session, Prof. Lindo will walk through how he uses Airline to move students from passive learning to active decision-making.
Students are not simply studying business strategy. They are running a company, making financial and operational decisions, making tradeoffs, responding to outcomes, and learning how their decisions connect across finance, operations, marketing, and management.
Calvin’s approach gives students the opportunity to make mistakes in a low-risk environment, work through those mistakes as a team, and become more confident in their ability to think and communicate like business professionals.
Students learn from mistakes and become more confident with guidance from the instructor acting as CEO of their companies.

During the webinar, Prof. Lindo will discuss:

  • How he structures his capstone course using Airline
  • What students learn through the simulation experience
  • How students build communication and teamwork skills through CEO-style check-ins and annual presentations
  • The major challenges students encounter during the simulation
  • Recommendations for instructors who want to adopt a similar approach in their own courses

Who Should Attend?

This webinar is designed for business faculty who teach, coordinate, or are considering courses in:

  • Strategic management, capstone, management, and operations courses.
  • Current Airline users are also encouraged to attend. Prof. Lindo’s approach may offer new ideas for structuring team meetings, presentations, assessment, and student reflection.

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING FOR STRATEGY COURSES USING AIRLINE

Presenter: Calvin Lindo, MBA, ABD

Why Airline?

Airline is a business strategy simulation that places students in the role of managing a regional airline. Students make decisions, review results, adjust strategy, and see how their choices affect company performance over time.
For instructors, Airline creates a natural setting for students to practice integrated business thinking. For students, it creates the kind of applied experience that helps business concepts become clearer, more connected, and more memorable.
Calvin’s course shows what can happen when a simulation is not just added to a class, but intentionally built into the learning journey.

Featured Presenter

Calvin Lindo has taught economics, finance, management, and marketing courses at the undergraduate level since 2006. He began teaching in the MBA Program at the University of Findlay in 2007 and joined the College of Business at the University of Northwestern Ohio as an adjunct instructor in 2009 before becoming a full-time faculty member in 2018. He became an Associate Professor in 2024.
In addition to his academic experience, Calvin brings more than 30 years of professional experience in financial and business planning, marketing and planning roles in healthcare systems, and business consulting. He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and is ABD in the Doctor of Business Administration Program at Anderson University.
Calvin Lindo Associate Professor business simulation webinar speaker
Calvin Lindo, MBA, ABD
Associate Professor, College of Business, University of Northwestern Ohio
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A Practical Look at Experiential Learning in Action

If you are looking for ways to help students connect business concepts to real-world decisions, this session will offer a practical look at how one instructor uses Airline to create a more active, applied, and confidence-building capstone experience.
Join us to hear Calvin’s approach, ask questions, and explore how Airline can support deeper learning in your own course.
Request your free faculty demo access to learn more about our Airline simulation!

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