This course provides fundamentals of six sigma, lean manufacturing, and other important tools and strategies to improve the performance of business processes. Through case studies, team exercises, and simulations, students will practice solving business problems and improving processes using these powerful tools. Topics covered will include: six sigma improvement methodology and tools, lean thinking tools and approaches, process mapping, dashboards, and other business improvement techniques. Students will also gain an understanding of the strategic importance of business improvement, the need for fact-based management, and how to deploy these tools in different parts of the value chain.Prerequisite: 29:799:301.

Introduction to the classical foundations of project management. Explore modern real-life project problems and learn key concepts of initiating, planning, organizing, controlling, and running a project. Particular emphasis on projects in the area of supply chain management. Extensive use of case studies. This course follows accepted project management guidelines and applies these concepts to actual projects in the classroom.Prerequisite: 29:799:301.

This course focuses on important planning strategies and tools that are commonly used in business practices. The major topics include demand forecasting, sales and operations planning (S&OP), inventory management, material requirement planning (MRP), and revenue management and pricing strategies.Prerequisite: 29:799:301.

Provides an overview of supply chain management (SCM) and defines its role in the overall business strategy of a firm. It provides students with a comprehensive overview of the business processes and activities of a supply chain including sourcing, procurement, sales and operations planning, distribution, and demand management. The emphasis of this course is on identifying the SCM-related business processes, problems encountered in practice, and the new challenges facing SCM practitioners. It combines SCM business knowledge with analytical thinking and problem solving. The course serves as a road map to subsequent in-depth courses on SCM related topics.Prerequisite: 21:355:102 or 104 or 01:355:101.

Basic techniques of research in marketing, including problem definition, research design, questionnaire construction, sampling, data collection and analysis, and report preparation. Emphasizes the use of analytical techniques in the design and conduct of marketing research.Prerequisites: 29:630:301 or 33:630:301 and 29:623:340.

Overview of marketing: the process of creating goods and services in response to consumer wants and needs. Study of the marketing function in organizations. Analysis of the marketing functions of price, promotion, place, and product.Writing intensive. Prerequisite: 21:355:102 or 104 or 01:355:101.

Provides a multidisciplinary, interactive study of business ethics and social responsibility in business organizations. Includes coverage of foundational concepts such as virtue theory, rights, justice, utilitarianism, stakeholder management, and social contract theory. These concepts will be applied to domestic and international business cases that depict dilemmas faced by business people working in various business roles and industries.Prerequisite: 21:355:102 or 01:355:101 AND 29:010:204.

This capstone course deals with formulating and implementing strategies that help firms to achieve competitive advantage and superior performance. Topics include business-level strategies, analysis of the competitive environment, internal analysis, strategy formulation, corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and corporate restructuring.
Prerequisites: 29:010:204, 29:390:329, 29:620:301, 29:630:301, and senior status.

Writing intensive.