A survey addressing critical skills for business students was developed and disseminated. Sixteen critical skills (such as critical thinking and time management) were identified as skills that need to be acquired in order for business students to be successful in their advanced courses and careers. The survey was disseminated and taken by several business faculty at various institutions. The survey participants were asked to rank both the importance of a particular skill and where their students currently rank in possessing this skill. This paper discusses the format of the survey, presents the survey results, analyzes the top three critical skills, and mentions future research opportunities.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;">This paper concerns the triangular distribution and shows how to find the min and max extreme interval values and related statistics (mean, standard deviation, mode, and median) for a range of observation sizes, n. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span>The extreme interval value, denoted as </span><span style="position: relative; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; top: 4pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-text-raise: -4.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">, represents a bound where the probability of any value less than </span><span style="position: relative; line-height: 115%; font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; top: 4pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-text-raise: -4.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">is &alpha;.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>Tables and an application are provided. </span></p>

<p>The extreme interval values and statistics (expected value, median, mode, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation) for the smallest (min) and largest (max) values of exponentially distributed variables with parameter ? = 1 are examined for different observation (sample) sizes. An extreme interval value is defined as a numerical bound where a specified percentage ? of the data is less than . A procedure for finding the extreme interval values when ? &gt; 0, an analysis of the extreme interval values and statistics, and an application of this research are provided.</p>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-add-space: auto;" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The min and max log-logistic extreme interval values are presented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition, the paper shows how the log-logistic extreme interval values can be found from the uniform extreme interval values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An application and tables containing some of the min and max log-logistic and uniform extreme interval values are provided. <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></strong></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt; text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-add-space: auto;" class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">The paper shows how to find the min and max extreme interval values for the exponential and triangular distributions from the min and max uniform extreme interval values.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tables are provided to show the min and max extreme interval values for the uniform, exponential, and triangular distributions for different probabilities and observation sizes.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>