Topics include forecasting, production planning, facility location and layout, inventory management, scheduling and quality control. Back to top. Managerial Economics Develops conceptual framework for business decision making with emphasis on demand, costs, prices and profits. An introductory course combining both a description of the structure of business financing and an analysis of functional finance from a managerial viewpoint. An overview of the role of marketing within an economic system and of the major marketing activities and decisions within an organization.
Emphasis is on developing and understanding of the marketing process.
Fall 1999 syllabi. Back to top. Operations Research A survey of operations research techniques with emphasis on problem formulation, model building, and model solution. Topics include mathematical programming, waiting-line models, simulation and decision theory. An overview of the legal, social, and ethical dimensions which influence business with particular attention to the role of law as a control factor of society in the business world.