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Technology & Operations Management

Curriculum

MBA Required Curriculum (1st Year)

Technology and Operations Management (TOM)

This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps them to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as well as the creation and delivery of services.

Topics encompass:

  • Process analysis
  • Cross-functional and cross-firm integration
  • Product development
  • Information technology
  • Technology and operations strategy

All first-year HBS MBA students have a series of required courses, as listed below:

Term I Courses
These five courses focus on the internal functional operations of business enterprise.

Term II Courses
These six courses cover the relationship of the organization to larger economic, governmental, and social environments.


MBA Elective Curriculum (2nd Year)

Technology & Operations Management
Course Title Faculty Name Term
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Entrepreneurial Management) Clay Christensen, Raymond Gilmartin

Gary Pisano, Willy Shih		 Fall 2009

Winter 2010
Business and the Environment Forest Reinhardt, Michael Toffel Fall 2009
Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains Zeynep Ton Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Building Green Businesses (also listed under Business, Government and the International Economy and Entrepreneurial Management) Forest Reinhardt, Joseph Lassiter, Rebecca Henderson, and Lee Fleming Winter 2010
Field Study Seminar: Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor Ananth Raman Fall 2009
Inventing Breakthroughs and Commercializing Science Vicki Sato Fall 2009
Leading Innovative Ventures (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and Organizational Behavior) Mary Tripsas Winter 2010
Managing Innovation Stefan Thomke, Karim Lakhani Winter 2010
Managing Medicine Richard  Bohmer Fall 2009
Managing Service Operations Ananth Raman Fall 2009
Operations Strategy Robert Huckman, Dan Snow Fall 2009
Research Seminar: Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (also listed under General Management and Entrepreneurial Management) Clay Christensen Fall 2009

Doctoral Programs

Detailed curriculum information and requirements for each doctoral program associated with the Technology and Operations Management unit can be found on the Doctoral Programs Web site, linked below.

Executive Education