Management Science

Catalog description

This course deals with the application of Management Science techniques to analyze a variety of managerial problems. Management Science is a discipline that attempts to aid managerial decision making by applying scientific approach to managerial problems that involve quantitative factors. The approaches covered in this course include optimization and forecasting. The course focuses on learning to recognize when these techniques can and cannot be used, how to apply these techniques and how to interpret the results of a management science study using real world applications and cases. Excel will be the tool of choice, as spreadsheet software is arguably the most commonly available and most frequently used took for analyzing business data.