MGMT 8334 Seminar in Operations Management
The main goal of this course is to introduce Ph.D. students to the field of operations management. Operations management is concerned with making strategic operations decisions, designing the operating systems and developing the operations planning and control processes for managing the resources in accordance with the overall business strategy. During the last three decades the strategic value of operations management to businesses has been widely recognized. Although each student can relate topics of the course to his or her discipline, the primary focus of the course is on operations management. The topics that will be covered include but are not limited to the in-depth study and analysis of operations strategy, research methods used in the field of operations management, capacity strategy, process/product management, service operations, lean systems, quality management, supply chain management, and sustainability. Course also focuses on producing a research paper for a selected research question(s) in the field of operations management.
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As scheduled