An MBA concentration in operations management from Chicago Booth gives you a global perspective on industry trends and the strategic vision to lead your company ahead of the competition.
At Booth, the operations management MBA examines the impact of management decisions on the day-to-day running of a company—as well as the impact of daily operations on management decisions.
Through this two-way lens, you’ll learn to successfully manage an organization's resources in order to maximize its value. By combining concepts, models, and data, you’ll be empowered to make better decisions, develop better systems, and lead with confidence.
Our interdisciplinary approach combines coursework in delivery of goods and services, decision models, and data analysis with experiential learning opportunities. Students in our Health-Care Analytics Lab, for example, have helped hospitals improve operations in areas including population health, hospital readmissions, scheduling, and nurse benchmarking.
Customize your MBA education with a concentration in operations management by choosing three courses in this discipline. Here are just a few of the options.
This core course focuses on understanding levers for structuring, managing, and improving a firm's recurring business processes to achieve competitive advantage in customer responsiveness, price, quality, and variety of products and services.
Successful decision-making requires the ability to structure complex problems, to analyze available options in an uncertain world, and to finally make the best decision given the information available. You'll learn how to apply analytical tools including optimization, simulation, and decision trees to examine managerial decision models. Business applications include resource allocation, risk analysis, and sequential decision-making through time.
You will learn to identify, formulate, solve, and implement systems for pricing and revenue optimization. You will develop a fundamental understanding of the use of pricing and capacity concepts combined with optimization tools to achieve revenue improvement within the practical context of limited resources and information.
You will learn how to design and improve the service offering for sustained excellence as well as how to identify and overcome key challenges in the service delivery. This course draws ideas not only from operations management, but also from consumer behavior, marketing, and strategy. The course frames a service through its offering to customers, its economic viability, the system set up for employees, and the role customers play in the delivery of the service.
This lab course will focus on applying data-driven analytics and insights to identify and create health-care delivery efficiencies. Student teams will work on improvement projects with real-world health-care institutions. Thus, the course will teach students how to bring operations theory into practice, under the guidance of a faculty member.
Special emphasis is given to understanding how the business context shapes managerial decisions regarding the strategic design and management of the supply chain, as you examine how to improve the flow of materials and information through this network of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers.
We explore decision making using the Python programming language. Our decision models include optimization and discrete event simulation. We will we also cover how to store shared data and populate model data using APIs.
To see more operations management courses, visit our course catalog and search by concentration area for your program of interest.
At Booth, you’ll study with faculty who conduct groundbreaking research, consult with businesses, and share their insights into how managerial decisions affect the day-to-day operations of a company.
Chicago Booth Review and other publications regularly feature the research of Chicago Booth scholars.
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Faculty members at Booth are connected to some of the most important leaders across industry. Our faculty regularly invite these leading practitioners and influencers to speak to students in the Booth classroom, providing you with greater access to learn, network, and grow.
Learn from Industry ExpertsDevelop your skills, meet new people, and build a dynamic global network. As an MBA student in operations management at Booth, you’ll have many opportunities to get involved in student groups, competitions, and other activities.
Test your theories and gain valuable experience in some of the world’s most prestigious competitions on campus and around the globe.
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