Executive Education
- Project management: a 100% active learning course [2 days]
- Introduction to project management [1 to 5 days]
- Project risk management [1 day]
- Introduction to sports analytics [1 to 5 days]
Ph.D. Courses
- Seminar on research topics in project management [21 hours]
- Seminar on current research in operations management and
optimization [21 hours] - Seminar on production scheduling and applications [21 hours]
- Seminar on dynamic programming applications to supply chain
management [21 hours] - Seminar on academic career skills [21 hours]
M.B.A. Courses
- Project management (in-person, synchronous, and synchronous modes) [42 hours] See course description below.
- Sports analytics (in-person, synchronous, and synchronous modes) [42 hours] See course description below.
- Production scheduling and control [21 hours]
- Decision modelling with spreadsheet applications [21 hours]
Undergraduate Courses
- Project management [42 hours]
- Production and operations management [42 hours]
- Decision modeling with spreadsheet applications [42 hours]
Project Management Course Description
Almost one-third of the world’s economic activity, with an annual value approaching $27 trillion, is organized as projects. In response to an increasingly competitive marketplace, organizations now recognize that introducing new products, processes, or programs in a timely and cost effective manner requires professional project management. The efficiency of other applications in IT, research and development, and software development is also greatly improved by efficient project management. Yet project management remains a business process that is not well solved, which makes good project managers highly valuable to their organizations. There are major recent developments in project management methodology, discussed within the course.
This course examines the management of complex projects and the tools that are available to assist managers with such projects. Specific activities and topics within the course include: project selection, project teams and organizational issues, a project data analytics exercise, project scheduling, cost and budget issues, managing task time uncertainty, critical chain project management, agile project management, project risk management, two project management simulation exercises, resource management in projects, and monitoring and control of projects. Both traditional applications of project management (such as engineering and construction projects) and modern applications (such as information technology projects and new product development) will be discussed. Case analysis and presentations, short videos, study group exercises, and online simulation challenges, support the course.
Sports Analytics Course Description
The global sports market is expected to grow from $355b in 2021 to $708b in 2026, a CAGR of 9%. However, these figures underestimate the value of sports because of its value added to other industries, especially tourism. The sports industry employs about 15m people, but has billions of interested spectators and consumers (5b for soccer alone). In support, the global sports analytics market is expected to grow from $1.06b in 2020 to $5.11b in 2026, a CAGR of 30%.
This course begins with background discussion of sports and sports analytics. The business of sports is examined, with a particular focus on differences in men’s and women’s sports. Analytical methods for evaluating teams, and also individual players within teams, are described. The best known applications of sports analytics are used to improve the probability of winning a game or tournament, and several examples are discussed. From the perspective of a tournament operator, a relative evaluation of alternative sports tournament designs is conducted. Nontraditional sports, including fantasy sports, X sports and esports are introduced. Discussions of sports betting include types of betting, optimal betting amounts, arbitrage betting, betting the middle, and a review of numerous studies that attempt to find inefficiencies in sports betting markets, with some apparent success. The topics of cheating, gamesmanship, shirking and officiating bias include several famous sports controversies. Finally, a critique of sports analytics summarizes various perspectives about whether analytics has reduced the entertainment value of sports, to the point of provoking rule changes in response. Case analysis and presentations, and short videos, support the course.