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The mission of the Operations and Information Management Department is to improve the quality and productivity of enterprises by (1) educating highly capable professionals and (2) discovering, developing, and validating new principles, theory, and methods. Members of the department are brought together by common interests in process management, decision making,…Read More

Undergraduate Program Contact Information Statistics Concentration Statistics Minor Business Analytics Joint Concentration Course Descriptions Course Schedule Employment and Educational Opportunities

Undergraduate Program Contact Information Statistics Concentration Statistics Minor Business Analytics Joint Concentration Course Descriptions Course Schedule Employment and Educational Opportunities

Concentration Advisors  Deborah Small (MKTG) - 760 JMHH, 215.898.6494, deborahs@wharton.upenn.edu John Zhang (MKTG) - 754 JMHH, 215.898.1989, zjzhang@wharton.upenn.edu Monique Guignard-Spielberg (OPIM) - 569 JMHH, 215.898.8235, guignard_monique@yahoo.fr The Marketing and Operations Management joint concentration emphasizes the importance of partnership between marketing and operations for new product development (NPD) in light of…Read More

Over the last 30 years, psychologists and economists have joined forces to study how people process information and actually make decisions, rather than how they would make decisions if they were fully rational and selfish. The new field that this collaboration has spawned, dubbed behavioral economics, has provided an understanding…Read More

The design, production and distribution of goods and services are the core activities around which all firms and economies are built. The department offers a series of courses that allow students to build a fundamental understanding of the tradeoffs to consider when managing the development of products and services, as…Read More

The rapid technological progress in the computing sector and the dramatic decline in the cost of computer power have fueled an investment boom in information technologies. Information technology are now called upon to understand how technology can be used to create new corporate strategies, new products and new types of…Read More

The Decision Processes track establishes rigorous scientific foundations for describing, predicting, and improving the processes through which individuals and groups collect data and information, form judgments and make decisions. The program examines descriptive theories and empirical research on human behavior that identify systematic biases in judgment and heuristics or rules…Read More

Business Analytics is the careful application of analytical techniques to solve business problems. These analytical techniques have emerged from a variety of disciplines such as operations research, statistics, machine learning, data mining, information science, computer science, marketing and game theory. Business Analytics is not a distinct management function, such as…Read More