Courses Programs - Thayer School of Engineering - Dartmouth ...

graduate courses
Supply Chain Management
Offered: F10
This course focuses on managing material and information outside of the factory
walls including aspects of globalization and low-cost country sourcing, product
design collaboration, demand planning and forecasting, inventory deployment,
distribution system design, channel management, procurement, and logistics. We
explore order fulfillment strategies and the impact of the Internet on distribution
and back-end supply chain processes. We also examine strategies for enterprise and
extraprise integration. Stumbling blocks for supply chain integration such as high
transaction costs between partners, poor information availability, and the challenges
of managing complex interfaces between functional organizations have been rapidly
dissolving on the web. We study the impact of these changes on traditional supply
chains and on the creation of virtual chains.
Prerequisite: ENGM 183
Instructor: Johnson
Private Equity Finance
Offered: F10
The purpose of this course is to examine the financial perspective on decisions in
entrepreneurial settings. While focusing on financial decisions, the course is integrative
in looking at entrepreneurial financial decisions from the perspectives of the
business opportunity, the goals of the participants, and the context, as well as
looking at the “deal” and the resources employed. The course also offers a close
examination of the investor’s role and the expanding institutional environment of
private equity financing.
Prerequisite: ENGM 180
Instructor: Blaydon
Strategic Management of Innovation
Offered: W11
This course provides a framework for managing innovations in businesses. The
emphasis throughout is on the development and application of models and
analytical tools that clarify the interactions between competition, new ideas,
patterns of technological and market change, and the structure and development of
internal capabilities. The course also examines the challenge to building and maintaining
an innovative organization, and how individuals can successfully innovate in
organizations. These tools can provide the framework for insightful planning when
deciding how to structure your organization to innovate, how to manage groups that
are innovating, which initiatives to invest in, how to structure your resources to gain
competitive advantage over other industry participants, and how to use you capabilities
to exploit innovative activities. The course should be of particular interest to
those interested in managing a business where external or internal innovation is a
necessity for competition, those interested in new business ventures, and consulting.
Instructor: A. Taylor
Management of Service Operations
Offered: S11
This course develops a business process view of service delivery and focuses on the
analysis and design of processes to achieve organizational goals. The notion of services
is broadly construed to include both “pure” services, such as banking and health
care, and the service components of manufacturing, such as after-sales support and
product design. Course content will include a mix of case discussions and lectures.
Prerequisite: ENGS 93 (formerly 103)
Instructor: Shumsky
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