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15.760B | Spring 2004 | Graduate

# Introduction to Operations Management

This schedule shows the due dates for each assignment, and gives a description for each. To summarize, the case write-up is a team exercise worth 30% of a student’s course grade, while the book review is completed by a student working individually and is worth 10%.

LEC # | TOPICS | TYPES | ASSIGNMENTS
--- | --- | --- | ---

1 | Course Introduction | Lecture |

2 | Burger King and McDonald’s | Case |

3 | Capacity | Lecture |

4 | National Cranberry | Case |

5 | Webvan | Case |

6 | Inventory | Lecture |

7 | Barilla | Case |

8 | Sport Obermeyer | Case | Graded case write-up due at the beginning of class (PDF)

9 | Production Control | Lecture | All students please complete the class feedback survey #1

10 | Hewlett-Packard | Case |

11 | The Goal | Book | Book Review This assignment is due at the beginning of class today. Prepare a one page summary of The Goal formatted as follows: 1. List your (at most) 6 main take-aways from the book (at most 2-3 sentence each); and 2. List the (at most) 4 main critiques (at most 2-3 sentence each) you would make about this book

12 | Quality | Lecture |

13 | Toyota | Case |

14 | Process Design | Lecture |

15 | Global Financial Corp. | Case |

16 | Supply Chain Design | Lecture |

17 | Product Design | Lecture |

18 | Sega Dreamcast | Case |

19 | Simulation and Course Wrap-up | Lecture | Students with last names M-Z please complete the class feedback survey #2

## Course Info

##### Instructor

- Prof. Jérémie Gallien

##### Departments

- Sloan School of Management

##### As Taught In

Spring 2004

##### Level

Graduate

##### Topics

- Business
  - Operations Management
  - Project Management
  - Supply Chain Management

##### Learning Resource Types

notes Lecture Notes

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