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3.00 Credits
Overview of the entrepreneurial process from an engineering perspective. Idea generation, planning, financing, marketing, protecting, staffing, leading, growing, and harvesting. Students write startup business plans. Lectures, guest speakers, and case studies. Prerequisite: 1 course in accounting or finance such as 326 or Econ260.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of corporate finance; financial decisions of firms; value; risk and return; investment and capital budgeting decisions under certainty and uncertainty; performance evaluation. Homework and exams. Prerequisites: MATH 220; basic understanding of probability and economics recommended.
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3.00 Credits
Methods Use of field research methods to solve management problems. Assignments focus on individual student projects. Students define projects, design field studies and pilot tests of data collection instruments, and present results. Prerequisite for nonmajors: consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Manager's view of tools available to recruit, develop, appraise, compensate, organize, and lead a team going through change. Application of psychological principles relating to human dynamics, motivation, teams, power, and organizational culture. Lectures, guest speakers, and exams. Work experience recommended.
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3.00 Credits
A casestudy Cbased exploration of the body of project management knowledge. Key topics include project scheduling, risk management, project leadership, small-group dynamics, project methodologies, lifecycle concepts, and project controls. A Socratic approach is taken to exploring various case studies in the context of established and leading-edge project-management concepts. Prerequisites: 303 and 342 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
Highly interactive case-study-based exploration of the field of negotiation and dispute resolution. Students interact in simulated negotiations and disputes ranging in complexity from single-party/single-issue to multiparty/multi-issue cases that illustrate integrative negotiation techniques. Also, dispute resolution techniques in the context of typical industrial situations. Prerequisites: 303 and 342 recommended.
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3.00 Credits
Financial markets, derivative securities, risk management, mathematical models in finance. Foreign exchange, debt, equity, commodity markets. Investing, trading, hedging, arbitrage. Forwards, futures, options, swaps, exotic derivatives. Models of price dynamics, binomial model, introduction to Black-Scholes theory and Monte Carlo simulation. Homework, projects, and guest speakers. Prerequisites: 315, 326, Math234, EECS 230, or equivalent or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Application and development of mathematical modeling tools for the analysis of strategic, tactical, and operational supply-chain problems including facility location, customer assignment, vehicle routing, and inventory management. Related topics including the role of information and decision support systems in supply chains. Homework, exams, and project. Prerequisite: 313.
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3.00 Credits
Applications of operations research methods to practical problems of production planning and inventory control. Forecasting; aggregate planning; deterministic and stochastic inventory models; MRP; JIT; variability; scheduling in production and service systems. Case studies, homework, and exams. Prerequisites: 202; 310 or 313.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of service industries: cost-reduction and service-enhancement models, location planning, workforce scheduling, yield management, queuing analysis, and call-center management. Prerequisites: 313, 315.
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