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The Operations program focuses on the design and management of the processes by which products are manufactured and services are delivered to customers throughout the world. The faculty strongly believe in learning by doing, so if you choose either the Operations specialization or concentration, you will be actively involved in experiential learning activities throughout your two years. The Operations faculty have won international recognition for their research, teaching and publications, and have made significant contributions to knowledge about time-based competition, manufacturing cells, quality management, learning processes and manufacturing strategy.
Discover Your Career
Career Opportunities—Explore the wide variety of MBA operations careers pursued at Owen.
Selected Companies that Hire from Owen—Operations
Amazon.com
Dell
General Electric
Emerson
Harrah’s Entertainment
HCA
HP
Johnson & Johnson
Sara Lee
Companies that Recruit from Owen
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Create Your Curriculum
MBA Curriculum Options
Operations Concentration
Hours Required: 12
With only one required course, this is one of the most flexible concentrations at Owen. Choose your remaining 10 hours from a long list of operation courses.
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Photo: Operations Case Competition Winning Team
Build Your Resume
Operations Case Competitions
Owen students took first place at the International Operations Case Competition at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business for two years straight. Top business school teams were asked to design an effective supply chain for raw vegetable oil and biodiesel for a prize of $10,000. Five Owen students from the Classes of 2007 and 2008 took the top spot with a plan that maximized production of raw vegetable oil and biodiesel and called for an aggressive construction schedule to build several raw vegetable oil and biodiesel plants. Continuing the trend of operations excellence, another team of Owen students took second place out of 65 MBA teams worldwide in the Spring 2007 MIT Sloan Operations Simulation Competition.
More Resume-Building Activities
Operations Career Symposium
Owen Operations Club
Owen Student Government Association
OSGA, Owen's student government, serves a student body of nearly 400 students via a combination of first and second year representatives. In doing so, OSGA strives to achieve broad student satisfaction via community-building activities across its student constituents, their families, our faculty & staff, our alumni and our corporate affiliates.
Meet Your Faculty
Blackburn, Joseph, James A. Speyer Professor of Production Management (Full Professor)
Dilts, David, Professor of Management
Hyer, Nancy, Associate Professor of Management
Kurtulus, Mumin, Assistant Professor of Operations
Lapré, Michael, E. Bronson Ingram Professor in Operations Management; Associate Professor of Management
LeBlanc, Larry, Professor of Management (Full Professor)
Scudder, Gary, Associate Dean; Professor of Management (Full Professor)
Photo: Professor Michael Lapre
Alumni & Students
Owen World Shapers
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Owen Bloggers
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Industry Insights
OwenIntelligence
Explore a wealth of current insight from Owen’s world-class faculty with this online publication.
Category Captains: Who’s in Charge? (Summer 2008)
Increasing Quality and Cutting Costs (Summer/Fall 2007)
Podcasts and Videos
Listen to or watch Owen faculty or speakers discussing topical issues.
