The purpose of this course is to provide the fundamental knowledge and skills of applied business research. Conducting research involves making numerous choices—choices about strategy, designs, operations, and analyses. In this course, the strengths and weaknesses associated with the various choices are identified. Students will learn that there are many external constraints placed on researchers and that there is no one best method for answering a research question. Instead, knowledge is the result of a triangulation of methods. As a result of this course, student will become better consumers of research and they will learn how to critically read research articles.