Operations and Leadership   [Archived Catalog]
2023-2024 Saybrook Academic Catalog Summer Addendum
   

HM 7532 - Operations and Leadership


This course focuses on research and practices related to operations management to assess standard and innovative practices in manufacturing and service sectors. The course provides conceptual and practical application frameworks of management as well as analytical tools for the management of operations. Students assess and apply strategies focused on improving operational efficiency through strategic resource allocations, increased infrastructural efficiencies, and integration of modern technologies in business operations. Relevant research and ethical considerations are included in decision-making. All of these considerations are integrated with the notion of achieving the quadruple bottom line of enhancing the position positions of people, planet, profit, guided by purpose. Prerequisite(s): None 3 credit(s)