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1.00 CreditDescription:
This course counts toward the following majors: Analytical Consulting, Operations.
In this course, students learn how operations strategy can add value by tailoring a set of core principles to a specific business setting. The course provides a framework to formulate an operations strategy and analyze, value, and optimize the key decisions involved in operations strategy. The key evaluation metric is how operations strategy impacts the net present value of the firm. The key decisions studied are choosing competitive operational competencies and benchmarking; capacity expansion, timing, flexibility and location; sourcing and contracting; risk management and operational hedging; revenue management; improvement and learning. This course builds on the core operations class. Students should also be familiar with the basics of finance, economics and strategy, as the strategic decisions studied in this course require a detailed analysis and understanding of the underlying operations. Thus this course has a greater amount of concreteness and detail than a competitive strategy class, and uses a combination of in-depth case analysis, mini-lectures, presentations and qualitative discussions of other examples. The course is intended for students interested in operations and supply chain management, general management, or management consulting.
Prerequisites:
All Students: ( OPNS-430-0 OR OPNS-438-B OR IEMS-471-1 OR OPNS-440-0 ) AND ( MECN-430-0 OR MECN-436-0 )
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 This course has not yet been scheduled.
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Spring 2010 Sec ID Instructor Day Time Location 81 Allon R 18:30 - 21:30 Jacobs (TBD)
Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Summer 2010 This course has not yet been scheduled.
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