About this Course
This course is designed to impact the way you think about transforming data into better decisions. Recent extraordinary improvements in data-collecting technologies have changed the way firms make informed and effective business decisions. The course on operations analytics, taught by three of Wharton’s leading experts, focuses on how the data can be used to profitably match supply with demand in various business settings. In this course, you will learn how to model future demand uncertainties, how to predict the outcomes of competing policy choices and how to choose the best course of action in the face of risk. The course will introduce frameworks and ideas that provide insights into a spectrum of real-world business challenges, will teach you methods and software available for tackling these challenges quantitatively as well as the issues involved in gathering the relevant data. This course is appropriate for beginners and business professionals with no prior analytics experience
What You'll Learn
- Analyze and transform data for informed decisions
- Model demand uncertainty
- Forecast policy outcomes
- Select optimal strategies under risk
Prerequisites
- Basic computer and internet skills
- Ability to read course instructions in English and complete short activities
Instructors
Senthil Veeraraghavan
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
Sergei Savin
Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions
Noah Gans
Anheuser-Busch Professor of Management Science, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions