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OBC 536: Organizational Design

A key role for organizational leaders is to design their organization to achieve their desired results. This course applies design thinking and methods to the practical problems of designing various sized organizations for optimal results in a...

OBC 537: Leading Change

This course focuses on the role of leadership in the design and implementation of organizational change. Topics include visioning, communication, social influence, power, resiliency, and resistance to change. Teaching methods include classroom...

OBC 538: Developing Managerial Talent

Assessing and developing managerial talent in yourself and others is a key to professional success and can be a source of organizational competitive advantage. This course addresses the Globalizing World and You, and provides students access to the...

OIE 501: Operations Management

This course focuses on the data-driven decision-making that matches supply to demand in an organization and its supply chain, emphasizing the strategic impact of operations on competitiveness and sustainability. Emergent technologies are explored as...

OIE 542: Risk Management and Decision Analysis

Risk management deals with decision making under uncertainty. It is interdisciplinary, drawing upon management science and managerial decision-making, along with material from negotiation and cognitive psychology. Classic methods from decision...

OIE 544: Supply Chain Analysis and Design

This course studies the decisions, strategies and analytical methods in designing, analyzing, evaluating, and managing supply chains. Concepts, techniques, and frameworks for better supply chain performance are discussed, and how digital technologies...

OIE 548: Performance Analytics

Productivity management and performance analysis techniques and applications are covered from engineering and management perspectives. Topics include benchmarking, production functions, and the concept of relative efficiency and its measurement by...

OIE 552: Modeling and Optimizing Processes

This course is designed to provide students with a variety of quantitative tools and techniques useful in modeling, evaluating and optimizing operation processes. Students are oriented toward the creation and use of spreadsheet models to support...

OIE 553: Global Purchasing and Logistics

This course aims to develop an in-depth understanding of the decisions and challenges related to the design and implementation of a firm’s purchasing strategy within a context of an integrated, global supply chain. Topics centering on operational...

OIE 554: Global Operations Strategy

This course focuses on operations strategy from a global perspective. Topics such as strategy of logistics and decisions to outsource are examined. As an example, the strategic issues concerned with firms that are doing R&D in the United States...