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The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of fundamental concepts in financial reporting and analysis, with a particular focus on the preparation and analysis of the four basic financial statements¿income statement, statement of cash flows, statement of shareholders¿ equity, and balance sheet¿provided by business organizations to external users. A number of analytical techniques and processes will be demonstrated throughout the semester as well, including techniques related to aggregation of accounting data, development of accounting related estimates and projections, descriptive accounting analytics, and ratio analysis of accounting information.
Credits: 2
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
"The objective of this course is to help you develop skills that are essential to being effective as a leader or manager. Topics covered will include leadership, motivation, teams, decision¿making, problem-solving, conflict management, building social capital and influence, feedback and coaching, organizational culture, leading change, and managing the transition from an individual contributor role to roles that require you to lead others."
Credits: 2
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
"This course will help you understand the importance and components of effective leadership and teamwork concepts and practices for employees, teams, and organizations."
Credits: 1
Semesters offered:
The purpose of this course is to study the financial decisions of the firm. Specifically, the course develops a theoretical framework which is then used to understand and evaluate corporate financial decisions. Topics include present value, capital budgeting techniques, the relationship between expected return and risk, market efficiency, dividend policy, capital structure policy, financial planning, and the management of working capital.
Credits: 2
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
This course will expose students to entrepreneurship in the context of the individual entrepreneur as well as taking the idea of entrepreneurial thinking into the environment of larger corporations. We will first experience what it takes to create a start-up; briefly examining the process of real-life entrepreneurs have used to move from having the "big idea" to the eventual company launch. During this time, we will explore the importance of teams, the process of risk mitigation, the concept of "fail-fast," the need for a relentless focus on customer buy-in and the important process of spiraling iteration. Next, we will move our focus to applying entrepreneurial thinking within the large corporate environment; considering the importance of entrepreneurial development within a company as a sustainable competitive advantage. And finally, we will look at individuals and companies that use their business skills to create innovative solutions to specific societal problems (social entrepreneurship). Together, we will discover the mindset that many entrepreneurs share.
Credits: 2
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
The purpose of this course is to emphasize the importance of effective communication techniques in an organizational setting and to provide grounding in communication skills. Team communication skills are also emphasized. Students will have the opportunity to understand leadership and communication strategies, and develop their writing skills through several assignments and class activities. Focus will be placed on improving students¿ ability to communicate clearly, logically and effectively. Students will have the opportunity to develop oral skills primarily through active learning.
Credits: 2
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
The objective of this course is to develop an understanding of the marketing function in organizations. Marketing is the set of activities, institutions, and processes used to create, communicate, deliver, and exchange products and services. With the rapid expansion of data collection, aggregation, and warehousing capabilities of firms, marketing has become increasingly reliant on data (e.g., primary, secondary, test-market, sector-industry-category estimates, and so on) to make decisions. Thus, a number of analytical marketing techniques will be demonstrated in this course, including but not limited to data acquisition (testing, web scraping, survey methods, conjoint analysis), data aggregation, market segmentation, sensitivity analysis, data visualization, analysis of market trend data, estimation of market size, marketing mix modeling, and data classification.
Credits: 2
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
This course covers the fundamental concepts in statistics that are essential for business and data analytics. Focused on the foundations of both descriptive and predictive forms of analytics, students are introduced to the statistical concepts of data analysis. Topics covered include descriptive statistics, probability theory, discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling theory, estimation, hypothesis testing, simple and multiple linear regression, introduction to causal modeling and predictive data analytics. MS-Excel based data modeling and data visualization will be used extensively throughout the exposition of the concepts.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
This course serves as a companion course for (and is taken in conjunction with) Statistical Analysis for Managers.
Credits: 1
Semesters offered:
The MBA Advantage Discussion Group is a structured course supporting students' success in the MBA program. The course meets weekly covering academic support, student expectations and fostering student engagement. The goal is to give students an environment to help their growth and success as current students and future MBA Alumni.
Credits: 0
Semesters offered:
Analytics concentration students must take MGG 633, MGS 616, MGF 694 and two analytics elective courses from those listed under the electives tab:
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Historically, managers have considered decision making as an art; something learned by trial and error; something based on creativity, judgment, intuition, and experience. This course gives you a structured way of attacking a wide range of real problems, using data-driven analysis to guide decision-making. We will consider how to think about and manage uncertainty and risk, how to translate data about the business into useful insights, how to put value on various courses of action, and how to generally make informed decisions. The main focus of the course will be on modeling decisions in the spreadsheet environment, illustrated by applications from operations, finance, marketing, and human resources. The approaches and techniques for decision-making are useful throughout the firm, both within functional areas and for the essential management challenge of working across functional boundaries.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
This course teaches the technical and managerial skills needed in developing predictive analytics applications which are used by customer-centric corporations - retail, financial, communication, and marketing groups - to help make decisions involving complex systems. The course concentrates on a set of well-known predictive analytics methods to support business decision making. Topics such as association rule mining, decision trees, neural networks, regression analysis and cluster analysis are covered in great depth. Extensive hands-on experience using software such as SAS Enterprise Miner is provided.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023 | Spring 2024
Fall 2023 (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Reg. Num. | Section | Type | Topic | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
20790 | F2S | LEC | TR | 8 - 9:20 a.m. | Jacobs 110 | Gaia, Joana | |
17837 | F1S | LEC | TR | 2 - 3:20 p.m. | Jacobs 110 | Gaia, Joana |
Spring 2024 (01/24/2024 - 05/07/2024)
Reg. Num. | Section | Type | Topic | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
21976 | S4S | LEC | MW | 11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. | Jacobs 122 | Sellitto, Dominic Michael | |
20399 | S3S | LEC | TR | 11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. | Frnczk 422 | Gaia, Joana | |
22886 | ABO1 | LEC | UNKWN | Remote | Hunt, Kyle Jeffrey | ||
16408 | S1S | LEC | MW | 11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. | Alfier 102 | Kraude, Richard Leland | |
19513 | S2S | LEC | MW | 12:30 - 1:50 p.m. | Alfier 102 | Kraude, Richard Leland |
This course utilizes "R," instead of Excel, as the computational tool. Students will learn how to download and process public data associated with economics, finance and accounting. Students will also learn how to apply "R" to various finance theories.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered:
Pre-Requisite: Two graduate courses, preferably Co
Summer
For this concentration, you need to have foundational programming knowledge or to have taken non-credit bridge courses, either prior to beginning your MBA or during the summer of your first year, to give you a broad introduction to foundational analytics methods (e.g., SAS, R). You may select any two courses from the following list, or an alternative course approved by the chair of the MBA/MS program committee:
The School of Management does not offer courses for these subjects. Faculty will recommend summer reading or materials.
The Finance Concentration requires five courses total (15 credits), MGF 633 and four elective courses from those listed under the electives tab.
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This course provides students with a general understanding of the operation of capital markets and basic analytical tools of investment management. Specifically, the course covers such topics as principles of valuation, risk analysis, modern portfolio theory, Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), market microstructure, index models, arbitrage pricing models, bonds and common stocks valuation, efficient market hypotheses, investment management, and option pricing models.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023 | Spring 2024
The Health Care concentration requires five courses total (15 credits), MGH 641, MGH 642, and three electives from the courses listed under the electives tab.
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This course is designed to be an overview of the health care industry and a framing of the severe challenges facing leaders in the field. It will take a business approach to the issues presented, but will always juxtapose financial issues with value creation. The course begins with a short look at classic economic principles, and why they do not always apply in health care, followed by a review of each component of the industry: government, health plans, employers, providers and suppliers.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
The class will focus on the major challenges facing the healthcare industry and innovative solutions being developed across the country. We will start with the qualities of the innovator and how they can be learned; we will then move on to an in-depth look at major innovation evaluation models, with specific focus on innovations in hospitals, physician practice, chronic disease, and personal health.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
The Information Assurance concentration requires five courses total (15 credits), MGS 650, MGS 651, MGS 610 and two electives from the courses listed under the electives tab. Once complete, students must complete The Graduate School approval form to receive the certificate.
*For the UB Advanced Graduate Certificate Program in Information Assurance, refer to this link: https://cse.buffalo.edu/caeiae/advanced_certificate_program.htm
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This is an introductory course in Digital Forensics where students will learn how to acquire, authenticate and analyze digital evidence. Technical and managerial topics will be explored, providing students with both theoretical and practical hands-on experience using forensic equipment and software. The additional topics of E-Discovery, Data Retention, Litigation, Internal Investigations, Regulatory Compliance and Incident Response will also be discussed within the context of Digital Forensics. EnCase, Access Data FTK and other open source forensic software programs are used in this course.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
Spring 2024 (01/24/2024 - 05/07/2024)
Reg. Num. | Section | Type | Topic | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
18869 | S1S | LEC | TR | 3:30 - 4:50 p.m. | Alfier 104 | Falahati, Arman |
Students will learn contemporary terms, philosophies, technologies, controls and strategies that go into buttressing an organization¿s informational, data-driven, well-being. Students will gain experience assess the growing number of cyber risks to our organizational assets, and how to treat these risks by prioritizing and arraying resources. Common information security controls (both technical and programmatic) will be covered, guided by an analysis of the leading information and cyber security control frameworks such as ISO 27000, NIST CSF, and the CIS top 18 security controls. Students will learn about strategic level security program implementation including, policy management, governance, return on investment and compliance whilst continually improving risk exposure. Cybersecurity is one part of the cross-functional milieu that this class will examine. Multidisciplinary topics that intersect with security program implementation will include Technical, Managerial, Executive, Finance, Human Resources, Business Continuity, Strategic IT Management, Legal, Psychological, Audit, Compliance and Control partnerships. Various IT hosting strategies including on-premises and cloud classifications will be examined for their security merits, challenges and risk exposures. Emerging impactful topics such as new/changing regulation and growth of generative artificial intelligence will be examined in terms of their implications on the information security industry and the deployment of future-proof protections.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
Pre-Requisite: MGS 602 and MGS 605 or MIS student
Fall 2023 (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Reg. Num. | Section | Type | Topic | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
15761 | F2S | LEC | MW | 12:30 - 1:50 p.m. | Capen 240 | Cleary, Kevin Patrick | |
23884 | F1S | LEC | TR | 5 - 6:20 p.m. | Obrian 104 | Cleary, Kevin Patrick |
The ability for one device to communicate with another is a defining hallmark of the information age. As trends in the information sciences evolve to include elements of cloud computing, containerization and hybrid approaches, so too must our definition of what a network is. This class will take an in-depth look at contemporary network concepts ranging from TCP / OSI models, topological considerations for physical networks, virtualization, software defined networking principals (infrastructure as code), and cloud service deployments (infrastructure as a service). Physical network elements, hardware and design architectures will be surveyed. Private, public, virtual and hybrid network considerations will be discussed. Security touchpoints and common controls within networked ecosystems will be analyzed. Students will walk away from this class with conversancy in the burgeoning network trends found in today¿s and future deployment paradigms.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered:
Pre-Requisite: MGS 602 Or MGS 607 Or MGS 650.
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This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of database management systems (DBMS) and the skills needed to design and implement a relational database. Students will be introduced to data modeling concepts, modeling tools, the process of transforming conceptual models into relational database designs, and finally the steps needed to implement those designs. Emphasis is placed on Entity-Relationship diagramming, data normalization, database administration, and data definition, data manipulation and query development using Structured Query Language (SQL). Other topics covered include: object-oriented databases, database security and integrity, web/database integration, application development in a Client/Server environment, distributed databases, data warehousing, data mining and knowledge management via the Internet to support electronic commerce. Readings, lectures, interactive case assignments and a database design project reinforce the role of DBMS in supporting organizational systems, transaction processing and decision support applications.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
Large scale computing environments aggregate resources from many autonomous computers to satisfy the information processing needs of modern enterprises. This course introduces techniques for creating functional, usable, high-performance distributed systems. Objectives are twofold: (1) gain a solid understanding of the technical issues, concepts and systems in the rapidly advancing technologies in distributed computing, and (2) acquire substantial knowledge on how to work with big data in distributed environments. The course is organized into two parts: study of DCS technologies, and study of large scale systems. We will discuss communication and networking services, application support services, large scale distributed system design, data management and interoperability of systems including consistency and data replication. Students will learn to use a framework for data intensive distributed applications (Apache Hadoop) and an associated parallel programming model, MapReduce.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
This course is designed to introduce students to the technical facets of the information technology and systems field. Students will learn about the contemporary technologies that underlie and support modern-day technology infrastructures. As a corollary, students will be able to weigh how strategic enterprise technical considerations have a bearing on organization competitiveness, vision and strategy. Key technologies covered will include hardware capabilities, data center hosting, virtualization techniques, cloud infrastructures (public, private, hybrid, IaaS, PaaS, Saas), networking, operating system and software capabilities. Student will also learn of key emerging technologies in the field along with the ability to analyze these technologies for maturity and opportunistic fit. Students will be led down a journey of how IT can be aligned as an organizational partner, enabling it to act as a crucible for innovation. Discussions on information security, resourcing considerations and enterprise architecture will underpin all topics.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
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Students will learn contemporary terms, philosophies, technologies, controls and strategies that go into buttressing an organization¿s informational, data-driven, well-being. Students will gain experience assess the growing number of cyber risks to our organizational assets, and how to treat these risks by prioritizing and arraying resources. Common information security controls (both technical and programmatic) will be covered, guided by an analysis of the leading information and cyber security control frameworks such as ISO 27000, NIST CSF, and the CIS top 18 security controls. Students will learn about strategic level security program implementation including, policy management, governance, return on investment and compliance whilst continually improving risk exposure. Cybersecurity is one part of the cross-functional milieu that this class will examine. Multidisciplinary topics that intersect with security program implementation will include Technical, Managerial, Executive, Finance, Human Resources, Business Continuity, Strategic IT Management, Legal, Psychological, Audit, Compliance and Control partnerships. Various IT hosting strategies including on-premises and cloud classifications will be examined for their security merits, challenges and risk exposures. Emerging impactful topics such as new/changing regulation and growth of generative artificial intelligence will be examined in terms of their implications on the information security industry and the deployment of future-proof protections.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
Pre-Requisite: MGS 602 and MGS 605 or MIS student
The courses listed above are concentration requirements.
• Electives and/or internship – 6 credits
This course is part I of the MBA capstone and will review the key concepts that was covered in corporate strategy course dealing with fundamental issues of examining issues central to the long- and short-term competitive position of an enterprise. The goal of this module is to help you revise the key concepts on how firms compete and sustain their competitive advantage. We will develop a set of analytical frameworks that enable you to explain performance differences among firms and that provide a structure for strategic decisions to enhance firms¿ future competitive positions. We will cover both strategy at the business unit level, introducing tools of industry analysis and competitive positioning, and at the corporate level, examining the economic logic for firms to diversify across businesses and for vertical integration decisions across stages of the industry value chain.
Credits: 1
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
Pre-Requisite: MGO 640.
This course is part II of the MBA capstone and provides the opportunity to apply the concepts, frameworks, and tools acquired in the first part of the course and in general in the MBA program. Students will work in teams of 4-5 on strategy audit project - analyzing current real world business challenge/issue and coming up with implementable solutions.
Credits: 1
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
Pre-Requisite: MGO 640 And MGO 642.
This course provides an introduction to the systems development life cycle (SDLC) emphasizing the recent adaptive approaches to SDLC, such as the unified process life cycle and agile methods. The course focuses on the disciplines of business modeling, requirements analysis, and logical design and utilizes the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for analysis, modeling, and design of business-oriented information systems. Information assurance issues of system controls and security are covered with respect to their impact on system requirements and design models.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
This course teaches the technical and managerial skills needed in developing predictive analytics applications which are used by customer-centric corporations - retail, financial, communication, and marketing groups - to help make decisions involving complex systems. The course concentrates on a set of well-known predictive analytics methods to support business decision making. Topics such as association rule mining, decision trees, neural networks, regression analysis and cluster analysis are covered in great depth. Extensive hands-on experience using software such as SAS Enterprise Miner is provided.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023 | Spring 2024
The ability for one device to communicate with another is a defining hallmark of the information age. As trends in the information sciences evolve to include elements of cloud computing, containerization and hybrid approaches, so too must our definition of what a network is. This class will take an in-depth look at contemporary network concepts ranging from TCP / OSI models, topological considerations for physical networks, virtualization, software defined networking principals (infrastructure as code), and cloud service deployments (infrastructure as a service). Physical network elements, hardware and design architectures will be surveyed. Private, public, virtual and hybrid network considerations will be discussed. Security touchpoints and common controls within networked ecosystems will be analyzed. Students will walk away from this class with conversancy in the burgeoning network trends found in today¿s and future deployment paradigms.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered:
Pre-Requisite: MGS 602 Or MGS 607 Or MGS 650.
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The main objective of this course is to introduce students to the theory and practice of doing business via the Internet. Topics include: elements of the infrastructure of electronic commerce; technologies and applications in electronic commerce; using electronic commerce for the creation of competitive advantages; planning technology-based strategies to achieve business goals. The course will rely heavily on research and peer learning with the instructor serving as catalyst, facilitator, and evaluator in a collaborative environment.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
• Elective – 3 credits
Note: MGS 614, MGS 616, MGS 651 and/or MGS 659 are concentration requirements.
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This course is designed to familiarize students with the core concepts related to international financial management, including foreign exchange markets (from institutional details to quantitative models for the forecasting of future exchange rates), currency risk derivatives (spanning both a discussion of contract characteristics and quantitative methods for pricing and valuation of currency forwards, options, and swap contracts), quantitative approaches for risk management and hedging in cross-border settings, quantitative analysis of currency arbitrage operations, analysis of translation, economic, and political risks, cross-border financing, issues with cross-border taxation, analysis of institutional details and recent statistics on foreign debt and equity markets, and other topics.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
Pre-Requisite: MGF 611 and MGQ 608 or MS Finance S
• Primary concentration courses and/or internship – 9 credits
Note: MGF 685 is a concentration requirement.
This course is part I of the MBA capstone and will review the key concepts that was covered in corporate strategy course dealing with fundamental issues of examining issues central to the long- and short-term competitive position of an enterprise. The goal of this module is to help you revise the key concepts on how firms compete and sustain their competitive advantage. We will develop a set of analytical frameworks that enable you to explain performance differences among firms and that provide a structure for strategic decisions to enhance firms¿ future competitive positions. We will cover both strategy at the business unit level, introducing tools of industry analysis and competitive positioning, and at the corporate level, examining the economic logic for firms to diversify across businesses and for vertical integration decisions across stages of the industry value chain.
Credits: 1
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
Pre-Requisite: MGO 640.
This course is part II of the MBA capstone and provides the opportunity to apply the concepts, frameworks, and tools acquired in the first part of the course and in general in the MBA program. Students will work in teams of 4-5 on strategy audit project - analyzing current real world business challenge/issue and coming up with implementable solutions.
Credits: 1
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
Pre-Requisite: MGO 640 And MGO 642.
The objective of this course is to develop familiarity with the problems and perspectives of marketing across national boundaries and to gain knowledge of tools and approaches to make international marketing decisions. The influence of e-commerce on international marketing problems such as gray channel and price coordination is also analyzed.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered:
This course deals with design, control, and operation of supply chains for competing effectively in the context of global operations management. Both manufacturing and service (such as health care) industry supply chains are covered. The topics covered include: state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative techniques for optimum configuration of in-bound and outbound logistics, principles of postponement in design, processes and logistics, mass customization, global location factors for offices, plants and distribution centers, collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) systems, countering bullwhip effects in supply chains, vendor managed inventory (VMI), strategic alliances and partnering, global purchasing and buyer-supplier relationships, and the complexities of the material, information, and cash flows across international borders. This course supplements MGS 616, which covers e-commerce integration aspects of supply chains.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
• Primary concentration courses – 6-9 credits
Note: MGM 683 and MGO 633 are concentration requirements.
The Management Consulting concentration requires four total courses (12 total credits), MGG 650 and three electives from the courses listed under the electives tab.
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This is a practical, hands-on course that will focus on the concepts, tools, and techniques associated with being a successful consultant and agent of change. The course covers the nuts-and-bolts of the consulting relationship. Students will learn about contracting, managing the relationship, and alternative deliverable formats. Students will also learn about the dynamics of change in organizations and the processes that create and sustain organizational development. Students will engage in the design and execution of a group consulting project in a local organization.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
The Marketing concentration requires four total courses (12 credits), MGM 667, MGM 651 and two electives from the courses listed under the electives tab.
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In addition to the required core and concentration courses, you can take special topic seminars, electives and an independent study in marketing.
Pertinent theoretical and empirical findings about the behavior of consumers and industrial and institutional buyers are discussed. Topics include motivation, learning, attitude formation, attitude change, and the relation between attitudes and behavior as applied to buyers. The impact of the electronic environment is also discussed as are innovation and market communication and the social and cultural concepts underlying strategies of market segmentation.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
Fall 2023 (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Reg. Num. | Section | Type | Topic | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
11512 | F1M | SEM | MW | 8 - 9:20 a.m. | Alfier 103 | Yoon, Sunyee |
Methods and functions of research in marketing management. Attention given to problems of conceptualization, implementation, and evaluation of research designs and to techniques of analysis of research data.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
The Operations Management concentration requires five total courses (15 credits), MGO 631 and MGO 633. In addition choose one of the following: MGO 632, MGO 634 and MGO 639. Also, two electives from the courses listed under the electives tab.
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This course focuses on production and inventory management problems in the entire supply chain, and the application of quantitative models and information systems and technologies for these problems. An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system platform is assumed and the course also covers the implementation aspects of ERP systems. The topics covered include supply chain strategy and coordination mechanisms, forecasting systems, aggregate planning, advanced planning systems (APS), master production scheduling, materials requirements planning (MRP) systems, inventory management for suppliers, manufacturers and distributors, cellular manufacturing, just-in-time (JIT) systems, lean manufacturing, optimized production technology (OPT), and flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) technologies. The completion of this course will enable students to take the certification examinations (CPIM/CFPIM) for American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS).
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023
This course deals with design, control, and operation of supply chains for competing effectively in the context of global operations management. Both manufacturing and service (such as health care) industry supply chains are covered. The topics covered include: state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative techniques for optimum configuration of in-bound and outbound logistics, principles of postponement in design, processes and logistics, mass customization, global location factors for offices, plants and distribution centers, collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) systems, countering bullwhip effects in supply chains, vendor managed inventory (VMI), strategic alliances and partnering, global purchasing and buyer-supplier relationships, and the complexities of the material, information, and cash flows across international borders. This course supplements MGS 616, which covers e-commerce integration aspects of supply chains.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
And one of the following:
The most significant factor in determining the long-run success or failure of any organization is quality. This course examines quality from that strategic perspective, examining how models such as product design, customer focus, lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), and the ISO 9000 family of standards are used to improve business results. The course is dual listed with MGO 432.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Spring 2024
Spring 2024 (01/24/2024 - 05/07/2024)
Reg. Num. | Section | Type | Topic | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
20385 | S1O | LEC | MW | 3:30 - 4:50 p.m. | Jacobs 122 | Lin, Winston T |
A project is a unique endeavor to create something of value. Modern project management does not belong exclusively to any particular industry, as it is useful to large corporations, government agencies, and individuals alike. This course covers the defining, organizing, and managing of complex, multidisciplinary projects, focusing on concepts and skills increasingly critical to 21st century work.
Credits: 3
Semesters offered: Fall 2023 | Spring 2024 | Summer 2023
Fall 2023 (08/28/2023 - 12/11/2023)
Reg. Num. | Section | Type | Topic | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
15549 | F2O | LEC | W | 6:30 - 9:10 p.m. | Jacobs 106 | Hayden, William M. | |
11615 | F10 | LEC | R | 6:30 - 9:10 p.m. | Alfier 103 | Hayden, William M. | |
24313 | F3O | LEC | T | 6:30 - 9:10 p.m. | Alfier 103 | Hayden, William M. |
Spring 2024 (01/22/2024 - 03/08/2024)
Reg. Num. | Section | Type | Topic | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
22887 | MAO1 | LEC | UNKWN | Remote | Simpson, Natalie C. |
Summer 2023 (05/31/2023 - 06/25/2023)
Reg. Num. | Section | Type | Topic | Days | Time | Location | Instructor |
13006 | SWED | LEC | W | 6:30 - 9:40 p.m. | Remote | Braunscheidel, Michael Joseph | |
11708 | WED | LEC | W | 6:30 - 9:40 p.m. | Remote | Braunscheidel, Michael Joseph | |
13005 | SSAT | LEC | S | 9 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. | Remote | Braunscheidel, Michael Joseph | |
11719 | SAT | LEC | S | 9 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. | Remote | Braunscheidel, Michael Joseph |
MGO 639 - Sustainable Operations
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