Students will be introduced to key techniques for using data to make informed management decisions. Covers probability, statistics, decision analysis, and optimization techniques. Emphasizes managerial applications in such areas as operations management, marketing, and finance.

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• Prerequisites: MBA student or department stamp

Students will be introduced to the basic concepts and methods used in financial statements. The course highlights the linkages between accounting information and management planning, decision making, and control.

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• Prerequisites: MBA student or department stamp

This course will introduce students to the tools and concepts of microeconomics to analyze decision problems within technology-driven firms through the coverage of microeconomic concepts relevant to managerial decision making.

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• Prerequisites: MBA student or department stamp

Introduces principles of effective teamwork and leadership and of strategic managerial communication. Provides an introduction to case study and to ethical issues confronting managers in technology or science-driven firms. Develops managerial communication skills.

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• Prerequisites: MBA student or department stamp

By taking an analytical approach to the study of marketing problems, this course provides an understanding of customers and competitors as a basis for developing, pricing, promoting, and distributing goods and services that satisfy customer and organizational objectives.

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• Prerequisites: MBA student or department stamp

This course will focus on basic business financial concepts with particular attention to challenges of finance in start-up and small- and medium-sized enterprises.

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• Prerequisites: MBA student or department stamp

After identifying characteristics common to technology driven firms, the implications of living in, managing, and leading such an organization are explored. Covers skills such as leadership of project teams and negotiations.

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• Prerequisites: MBA student or department stamp

This course explores the strategic management of technology-driven firms focusing on the analytical tools and techniques that support strategy formulation and the related managerial skills and decision processes that foster strategy implementation.

• Letter grades only
• Prerequisites: MBA student or department stamp

Students will be familiarized with the problems and issues confronting operations managers, and will be introduced to language, conceptual models, and analytical techniques that are broadly applicable in confronting such problems.

Project-based course, requiring identification and completion of major project assessing potential business value of emerging or potential technology or science. Students work in self-selected teams. Class meetings include sessions on methodology to explore edge methods and application, guest lectures, and presentation of interim and final reports.