MBA Operations Research Concentration
The Operations Research concentration draws upon our history of excellence in the area of quantitative decision making. During the 1950s, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University pioneered a revolutionary new approach to business management known as management science.
Our practice of applying analytical, quantitative decision-making techniques to management has since been adopted by virtually every leading B-school in the U.S.
Why study Operations Research?
The study of Operations Research provides a powerful career advantage in which MBA students master frameworks for:
- Building descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive models
- Using tools from statistics
- Data mining
- Machine learning
- Mathematical optimization
Course Spotlight: Optimization
The Operations Research concentration is ideal for MBA students who plan to:
- Pursue a career based on quantitative analysis (such as in Consulting, High Tech, and Quantitative Finance).
- Build a solid foundation in data-driven decision-making.
- Dig deeper into the unique quantitative models underlying modern Management Science.
- Enhance their MBA with a well-rounded view of modern optimization technologies.
Operations Research turns data into well-informed strategic and operational decisions for complex business problems.