2001 AACC Annual Meeting Charlotte, North Carolina October 14-18, 2001 Charlotte Convention Center

As any program intended to increase the productivity, quality, and innovation levels of corporate institutions, internship programs can be gleaming successes or dismal failures. The recognition of the potential benefits in concert with a long-term plan to hedge against immediate costs can assure that any such program results in successes on both corporate and personal levels. The personal and corporate costs associated with a working example are assessed through two disparate paradigms. The mutual benefits are delineated and reconciled with these costs. With the right management, internship programs are a superlative source of productivity.