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3.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to the emerging structure of the modern retailing industry and to effective retailing management. Investigates how key firms in the modern retailing sector are managed and how pacesetting firms are organized and structured at both the strategic and operational levels. Covers both physical and internet-based retailing.
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3.00 Credits
Course provides an introduction to technological innovation and emerging technologies retailing. The focal point of this course is the effective management of technological innovation in modern retailing. The role of technology platforms and applications, technology development and use, and the relationships between technologies and business processes are also discussed.
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3.00 Credits
Course focuses on current theory and practice in global retailing and supply chain management and the link between globalization and supply chain management. The course also examines the flow and transformation of goods from the raw material stage through to the end user. The globalization of retailing has triggered a range of innovations in the supply chain which will also be the focal point of this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the use of "analytics"--a fast-growing element in modern management-- for achieving both more effective operations and heightened competitive advantage. This course provides a managerial overview of current deployment of a diverse range of analytics--internally-oriented and externally-oriented. The course also identifies the impact of analytics on a firm's performance; and explores the strengths and weaknesses of analytics. The course also presents best practices of analytics from a range of industries, including retailing, hospitality, financial services, consulting, healthcare, and logistics. Pre/Co-Requisites: MG6083 Economics AND MG6093 Accounting and Finance.
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2.00 Credits
The course focuses on entrepreneurship and venture creation as key engines for wealth creation and successful business strategy in the modern innovation-intensive, high-tech economy. It deals with such key issues as: (1) assessing attractiveness of opportunities; (2) launching a new venture; (3) nurturing and growing and entrepreneurial venture; (4) obtaining the necessary financial, human and technology resources; (5) managing the transition from a small entrepreneurial firm to a large, sustainable professionally managed, but still entrepreneurial corporation; and (6) being an entrepreneur and promoting entrepreneurship in a large corporation. Prerequisite: Adviser's approval.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to effective management in the modern bio-pharma sectors. Investigates how key bio-pharma firms are organized and managed at both the strategic and operational levels. Particular attention is paid to various forms of technology and innovation management occurring in the bio-pharma arena. Also listed under CBE 7713.
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3.00 Credits
Course provides an introduction to technological innovation and emerging technologies that are changing the nature of competition in the bio-pharma sectors. Focuses on modern approaches for research and discovery of new molecules and on development of processes to manufacture them in large quantities. Explores the two major routes for this discovery activity and manufacturing processes: the "chemical" route andthe "biological" route. Provides a blend ofconceptual overviews, essential technical and scientific basics, competitive, regulatory, and management implications of the developments studied and specific cases studied and industry examples. Also listed under CBE 7683.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with services innovation. Services have eclipsed manufacturing, and are now the dominant part of a modern, advanced economy. According to some estimates, services account for close to 80 percent of US employment. This course examines how value creation occurs in a range of fast-growing services sectors, including retailing, hospitality, financial services, professional services, travel, logistics, and healthcare. The course emphasizes that services are diverse, and explicitly distinguishes traditional and high-value services. This course focuses especially on the latter type of services. A key objective of this course is introducing to course participants best practices for nurturing modern services innovation.
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3.00 Credits
(variable 2.5 / 1.25) This course explores several trends that have emerged in the technology management and innovation arena in the past decade. These include the advent of digital-based innovation in the late 1990s which has had a profound affect on how many firms conduct business; the effect of the crash of the NASDAQ in March 2000 and the September 11 event which had a major effect on corporations which now had to operate within major economic and creative constraints; the development of the concept of networks as it relates to the organization and strategy of the firm; the development of the wireless technology platform and its effect on technology innovation; and the development of a new innovation paradigm which suggests a relationship between information technology, creativity, and business practices. The course emphasizes classroom discussions as well as team based and individual projects.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth exploration of selected modern networking and information technologies. The specific topics studied vary from year to year. Examples are mobile communications, IP telephony, enterprise data systems, etc. The course builds on previous TIM courses and provides a solid technology grounding in a learning context, which also emphasizes how these selected technologies affect markets, industries, providers, integrators, and users. The technical content of this course is supplemented with actual case examples and relevant guest speakers.
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