Spring 2019 Course Highlight: MBAMS 638 Management Decision Models

MBAMS 638 Management Decision Models

Professor Hamed Yarmand

Thursday 5:30-8:15pm

Applies to meet MBA elective, specialization in Supply Chain Management

Applies to meet MSBA requirement. Applies to meet MSIT elective.

 

Improve your decision making

  • Learn how to

–Translate a real-world problem into mathematical language

–Analyze the problem using quantitative analysis tools

–Translate it back to the real-world to implement the results

  • Learn how to use mathematical modeling to

–Select a stock portfolio that will maximize the expected return

–Update the production plan dynamically as demand changes

–Schedule surgeries in operating rooms in a hospital

–Staff a bank at different times based on customer arrival rate

–Find the shortest path for a postal service truck to deliver its packages

–Allocate vaccine doses to different regions to minimize an epidemic

  • Also learn how to Consider uncertainty about the future in decision making
  • Want to know more? Email hamed.yarmand@umb.edu

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