Course Search > Search Results > Course DescriptionEmpirical Methods in Strategy (MGMT-469-0)
1.00 CreditDescription:
This course counts toward the following majors: Analytical Consulting, Decision Sciences, Health Enterprise Management, Health Industry Management, Management & Strategy.
To develop and implement a business strategy, managers must make sense of massive amounts of information. Most managers (and the consultants they hire) can compute the means and standard deviations of individual variables, but few are adequately prepared to identify the relationships among variables or to interpret those relationships in the context of the underlying managerial issues. This "clinical" course provides that preparation. Through the development of rigorous statistical analysis skills linked to theoretical issues in management and strategy, students learn how to draw inference from data about real-world strategic issues. The instructor provides real-world data and offer close supervision as students design and execute their own analyses and prepare reports on their findings. Using sophisticated statistical software, students may estimate demand curves, identify opportunities for entry in growing markets, assess compatibility issues in high tech markets and perform benchmarking analyses. Students also read and discuss academic studies in management and strategy to identify best analytic practices.
Prerequisites:
All Students: DECS-434-0 OR DECS-437-0 OR IEMS-471-2 OR OPNS-440-0
Corequisites:
None
We are currently in the Fall 2009 quarter.
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Fall 2009 This course has not yet been scheduled.
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Winter 2010 Sec ID Instructor Day Time Location 61 * Dranove MR 08:30 - 10:00 Jacobs (TBD) 71 Sfekas R 18:00 - 21:00 Wieboldt (TBD)
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Spring 2010 Sec ID Instructor Day Time Location 61 Dafny MR 08:30 - 10:00 Jacobs (TBD) 62 Dafny MR 10:30 - 12:00 Jacobs (TBD) 71 Staff TBA TBA TBA (TBD)
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Summer 2010 This course has not yet been scheduled.
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