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    Introduction to Manufacturing Systems

    Introduction to Manufacturing Systems

    This course provides ways to analyze manufacturing systems in terms of material flow and storage, information flow, capacities, and times and durations of events. Fundamental topics include probability, inventory and queuing models, optimization, and linear and dynamic systems. Factory planning and scheduling topics include flow planning, bottleneck characterization, buffer and batch-size analysis, and dynamic behavior of production systems.

    Subjects:
    Logistics and Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Keywords:
    Manufacturing processes Production planning Production engineering
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Financing Economic Development

    Financing Economic Development

    This course focuses on the tools and programs available to economic development practitioners to address capital needs for businesses and economic development projects. It provides an overview of private capital markets and financing sources to understand capital market imperfections that constrain economic development, business accounting, financial statement analysis, federal economic development programs, and public finance tools. The course covers policies and program models, including revolving loan funds, guarantee programs, venture capital funds, bank holding companies, community development loan funds and credit unions, micro-enterprise funds, and the Community Reinvestment Act. The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of economic development finance practice in the United States, and to develop a knowledge base and skills to either be a development finance practitioner, or apply economic development finance approaches to other fields of planning and community development.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Finance
    Keywords:
    Economic development -- Finance Business enterprises -- Finance United States
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    Courseware
     
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    Game Theory

    Game Theory

    This course provides a rigorous treatment of non-cooperative solution concepts in game theory, including rationalizability and Nash, sequential, and stable equilibria. It covers topics such as epistemic foundations, higher order beliefs, bargaining, repeated games, reputation, supermodular games, and global games. It also introduces cooperative solution concepts—Nash bargaining solution, core, Shapley value—and develops corresponding non-cooperative foundations.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Game theory
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Political Economy I

    Political Economy I

    Political Economy I explores the major social science paradigms for analyzing relations among state, economy, and society. Through readings, lectures and discussion of original texts in political liberalism and individualism, neo-classical economics, Marxism, sociological and cultural theories, and neo-institutionalism, the seminar examines the fundamental assumptions on which our understanding of the social world and our research are based.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Political Science
    Keywords:
    Economics Political science
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy

    Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy

    This course applies microeconomic theory to analysis of public policy. It builds from the microeconomic model of consumer behavior and extends to operation of single and multiple markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail. We will study empirical examples to evaluate theory, focusing on the casual effects of policy interventions on economic outcomes. Topics include minimum wages and employment, food stamps and consumer welfare, economics of risk and safety regulation, the value of education, and gains from international trade.

    Subjects:
    Economics and Political Science
    Keywords:
    Microeconomics Policy sciences Political planning
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    Courseware
     
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    Economic Growth

    Economic Growth

    This half semester class will present an introduction to macroeconomic modeling, particularly economic growth. It will focus both on models of economic growth and their empirical applications, and try to shed light on the mechanics of economic growth, technological change and sources of income and growth differences across countries.

    Subjects:
    Economics
    Keywords:
    Economic development Macroeconomics
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    Courseware
     
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    International Trade

    International Trade

    This course will analyze the causes and consequences of international trade and investment. We will investigate why nations trade, what they trade, and who gains (or not) from this trade. We will then analyze the motives for countries or organizations to restrict or regulate international trade and study the effects of such policies on economic welfare. Topics covered will include the effects of trade on economic growth and wage inequality, multinationals and foreign direct investment, international trade agreements and current trade policy disputes.

    Subjects:
    Economics and International Trade
    Keywords:
    Investments International trade Macroeconomics
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    Courseware
     
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    MBA Study Tour: Innovation Islands - How New Zealand Became a Global Player in the Race to Innovate

    MBA Study Tour: Innovation Islands - How New Zealand Became a Global Player in the Race to Innovate

    This International Study Tour went to New Zealand during the first half of the 2016 Spring semester and travel during the Sloan Innovation Period. International Study Tours provide students with a course credit opportunity to identify and address issues about which they feel particularly passionate. After classroom sessions featuring faculty, industry, and cultural experts, students embark on site visits to their destination of choice, meeting with industry and government leaders, as well as local alumni. Through these visits, students are able to build on the preparatory course work with an in-depth exploration of industries, companies, and countries they have visited.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Management Technological innovations New zeal
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    Communication for Managers

    Communication for Managers

    In this course, students develop and polish communication strategies and methods through discussion, examples, and practice with an emphasizes on writing and speaking skills necessary for effective leaders. The course includes several oral and written assignments which are integrated with other subjects, and with career development activities, when possible.

    Subjects:
    Management and Communication
    Keywords:
    Business presentations Leadership Business communication
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
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    Advanced Communication for Leaders

    Advanced Communication for Leaders

    This course introduces interactive oral and interpersonal communication skills critical to leaders, including strategies for presenting to a hostile audience, running effective and productive meetings, active listening, and contributing to group decision-making. There are team-run classes on chosen communication topics, and an individual analysis of leadership qualities and characteristics. Students deliver an oral presentation and an executive summary, both aimed at a business audience.

    Subjects:
    Communication
    Keywords:
    Interpersonal communication Business communication
    Resource Type:
    Courseware