This course presents real-world examples in which quantitative methods provide a significant …
This course presents real-world examples in which quantitative methods provide a significant competitive edge that has led to a first order impact on some of today's most important companies. We outline the competitive landscape and present the key quantitative methods that created the edge (data-mining, dynamic optimization, simulation), and discuss their impact.
This course covers the key quantitative methods of finance: financial econometrics and …
This course covers the key quantitative methods of finance: financial econometrics and statistical inference for financial applications; dynamic optimization; Monte Carlo simulation; stochastic (ItĺŞ) calculus. These techniques, along with their computer implementation, are covered in depth. Application areas include portfolio management, risk management, derivatives, and proprietary trading.
Explores how organizations can use system dynamics to achieve important goals. Student …
Explores how organizations can use system dynamics to achieve important goals. Student teams work with client managers to tackle the clients' most pressing issues. Students discuss experiences with their clients, and learn modeling and consulting skills they need to be effective. Focus on gaining practical insight from the system dynamics process. Projects are sponsored by diverse organizations from a range of industries and sizes from start-ups to the Fortune 500.
Develops facility with concepts, language, and analytical tools of economics. Covers microeconomics, …
Develops facility with concepts, language, and analytical tools of economics. Covers microeconomics, macroeconomics, and international trade and payments. Emphasizes integration of theory, data, and judgment in the analysis of corporate decisions and public policy, and in the assessment of changing US and international business environments. Restricted to Sloan Fellows. The fact of scarcity forces individuals, firms, and societies to choose among alternative uses -- or allocations -- of its limited resources. Accordingly, the first part of this summer course seeks to understand how economists model the choice process of individual consumers and firms, and how markets work to coordinate these choices. It also examines how well markets perform this function using the economist's criterion of market efficiency. Overall, this course focuses on microeconomics, with some topics from macroeconomics and international trade. It emphasizes the integration of theory, data, and judgment in the analysis of corporate decisions and public policy, and in the assessment of changing U.S. and international business environments.
For the communications course Argumentation or Argumentation and Debate. There is a …
For the communications course Argumentation or Argumentation and Debate.
There is a quote that has been passed down many years and is most recently accounted to P.T. Barnum, “There is a sucker born every minute.” Are you that sucker? If you were, would you like to be “reborn?” The goal of this book is to help you through that “birthing” process. Critical thinking and standing up for your ideas and making decisions are important in both your personal and professional life. How good are we at making the decision to marry? According to the Centers for Disease Control, there is one divorce in America every 36 seconds. That is nearly 2,400 every day. And professionally, the Wall Street Journal predicts the average person will have 7 careers in their lifetime. Critical thinking skills are crucial.
Critical thinking is a series learned skills. In each chapter of this book you will find a variety of skills that will help you improve your thinking and argumentative ability. As you improve, you will grow into a more confident person being more in charge of your world and the decisions you make.
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Table of Contents 1: Standing Up For Your Point Of View 2: Communicating An Argument 3: Clash 4: Claims 5: Building Your Case With Issues, Analysis And Contentions 6: Evidence 7: Reasoning 8: Validity Or Truth 9: Changing Beliefs, Attitudes and Behavior 10: Decision Making - Judging an Argument 11: Discovering, Examining and Improving Our Reality 12: The Foundations of Critical Thinking
An introduction to bargaining and negotiation in public, business, and legal settings. …
An introduction to bargaining and negotiation in public, business, and legal settings. Combines a "hands-on" skill-building orientation with a look at pertinent social theory. Strategy, communications, ethics, and institutional influences are examined as they influence the ability of actors to analyze problems, negotiate agreements, and resolve disputes in social, organizational, and political circumstances characterized by interdependent interests.
Overview: This lesson talks about the pros and cons of various banking …
Overview: This lesson talks about the pros and cons of various banking systems and talks more about using gold as a standard. [Banking, Money, Finance playlist: Lesson 18 of 24]
This text addresses the challenges posed by various levels of project complexity …
This text addresses the challenges posed by various levels of project complexity by introducing an approach to profiling projects and discussing the implications to project management. The text provides an overview of project management and uses the industry standard definitions of the divisions of project management knowledge as described by the Project Management Institute (PMI) to provide grounding in traditional project management concepts. Additionally, students learn a technique developed by the authors to assess the complexity level of a project.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Project Management Chapter 2: Project Profiling Chapter 3: Project Phases and Organization Chapter 4: Understanding and Meeting Client Expectations Chapter 5: Working with People on Projects Chapter 6: Communication Technologies Chapter 7: Starting a Project Chapter 8: Project Time Management Chapter 9: Estimating and Managing Costs Chapter 10: Managing Project Quality Chapter 11: Managing Project Risk Chapter 12: Project Procurement and Closure
Lean thinking, as well as associated processes and tools, have involved into …
Lean thinking, as well as associated processes and tools, have involved into a ubiquitous perspective for improving systems particularly in the manufacturing arena. With application experience has come an understanding of the boundaries of lean capabilities and the benefits of getting beyond these boundaries to further improve performance. Discrete event simulation is recognized as one beyond-the-boundaries of lean technique. Thus, the fundamental goal of this text is to show how discrete event simulation can be used in addition to lean thinking to achieve greater benefits in system improvement than with lean alone. Realizing this goal requires learning the problems that simulation solves as well as the methods required to solve them. The problems that simulation solves are captured in a collection of case studies. These studies serve as metaphors for industrial problems that are commonly addressed using lean and simulation.
Table of Contents Beyond Lean: Process and Principles Simulation Modeling Modeling Random Quantities Conducting Simulation Experiments The Simulation Engine A Single Workstation Serial Systems Job Shops Inventory Organization and Control Inventory Control Using Kanbans Cellular Manufacturing Operations Flexible Manufacturing Systems Automated Inventory Management Transportation and Delivery Integrated Supply Chains Distribution Centers and Conveyors Automated Guided Vehicle Systems Automated Storage and Retrieval
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While big data infiltrates all walks of life, most firms have not …
While big data infiltrates all walks of life, most firms have not changed sufficiently to meet the challenges that come with it. In this course, you will learn how to develop a big data strategy, transform your business model and your organization.
This course will enable professionals to take their organization and their own career to the next level, regardless of their background and position.
Professionals will learn how to be in charge of big data instead of being subject to it. In particular, they will become familiar with tools to:
assess their current situation regarding potential big data-induced changes of a disruptive nature, identify their options for successfully integrating big data in their strategy, business model and organization, or if not possible, how to exit quickly with as little loss as possible, and strengthen their own position and that of their organization in our digitalized knowledge economy The course will build on the concepts of product life cycles, the business model canvas, organizational theory and digitalized management jobs (such as Chief Digital Officer or Chief Informatics Officer) to help you find the best way to deal with and benefit from big data induced changes.
Accounting is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic …
Accounting is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations.and conveys this information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators.
This is an entire course/e-textbook that was formerly the Boundless Business text …
This is an entire course/e-textbook that was formerly the Boundless Business text that was purchased by Lumen Learning and maintained in its current form.
The material presented in this resource is generally accurate especially considering that it reflects standard business practices and concepts that have changed little. A few of the examples given in the text could be a bit dated, which indicates that its utility may come from linking to specific parts of the course rather than using it as an entire textbook substitute. There does not appear to be a great deal of bias with this work, since its positioning is relatively generic to the facts and figures and it typically steers clear of opinions and judgments. An instructor could easily remix this with more current, relevant, and culturally deeper examples.
The text includes detailed images and graphs that are well done and help drive home visual concepts. It is limited in terms of interactivity and is still a text heavy presentation. This material is published as CC-Sharealike so it can be remixed but not revised. Lumen has taken some responsibility for the fact that it can still be edited but likely not updated to increase its currency. Since Lumen owns this material, it is likely to be here in this state for a long while.
Most of the material is relevant to any Introductory Business course with concepts that would apply for a long period of time. This material generally ages well, it just needs to be paired with continually more updated and relevant examples as technologies and markets change. Student could likely meet their learning goals and interests with this material as a support (curated by the instructor) to an existing course but it likely does not standalone as a full course resource. It seems most useful for providing depth to key points with direct links to sub-pages within this course.
The defining challenge facing business leaders is to develop and drive performance …
The defining challenge facing business leaders is to develop and drive performance into the future. For commercial firms, this generally means building profits and growing the value of the business. Although their focus may be on non-financial outcomes, public services, voluntary groups, and other not-for-profit organizations share the same central challenge—continually improving their performance. When the causes of performance through time are not understood, management has difficulty making the right decisions about important issues. Worse, entire organizations are led into ill-chosen strategies for their future. To overcome these problems, leaders need the means to answer three basic questions: 1. Why is business performance following its current path? 2. Where are current policies, decisions, and strategy leading us? 3. How can future prospects be improved? These questions are the starting point for this book.
Table of Contents Chapter 1: Performance Through Time Chapter 2: Resources: Vital Drivers of Performance Chapter 3: Resources and Bathtub Behavior Chapter 4: Handling Interdependence Between Resources Chapter 5: Building and Managing the Strategic Architecture Chapter 6: You Need Quality Resources as Well as Quantity Chapter 7: Managing Rivalry for Customers and Other Resources Chapter 8: Intangible Resources and Capabilities Chapter 9: Going Forward
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