Management M.S.

Concentrations in the Master of Science Program

Management of Information Systems

The Lally School’s Management of Information Systems concentration is designed for professionals seeking executive positions responsible for achieving competitive advantage through the effective development and integration of information technology into organizations. The concentration courses use an interdisciplinary approach to the practices and methodologies of systems analysis, design, development, integration, and evaluation of information technology into business functions and processes.

• MGMT 6140 - Information Systems for Management Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 6170 - Advanced Systems Analysis and Design Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 6180 - Strategic Information Systems Management Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 6690 - Supply Chain Management Credit Hours: 3

Production and Operations Management

The purpose of this concentration is to provide students with an understanding of how product requirements are translated into the organizations, procedures, facilities and methods of manufacturing and service operations. This concentration prepares students for management careers at several levels of the manufacturing and service organization by developing the knowledge necessary to support and add value to the underlying strategic focus of an operating manufacturing system. Students are encouraged to assemble a set of operations courses which best facilitate their professional development and career potential.

• MGMT 6390 - International Operations Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 6480 - Service Operations Management Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 6490 - Competitive Advantage and Operations Strategy Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 6810 - Management of Technical Projects Credit Hours: 3

Marketing and New Products Development Management

This concentration is available to graduate students interested in a career path in new product development or in product management and is geared toward the special problems associated with managing high-tech products. Students focus their attention on understanding the links between an organization’s design, manufacturing, and marketing efforts for achieving successful product/market development, commercialization, and management throughout the life cycle. The Marketing and Product Development Management concentration requires students to take  the following courses. One additional course may be taken from the elective options.

One of the following two is also required:

• MGMT 6530 - Making Business Happen Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 6540 - Marketing Communication and Branding Strategies Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 6550 - Marketing Research Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 6580 - Marketing High-Tech Products Credit Hours: 3

Financial Technology

The purpose of this concentration is to provide students with the knowledge and essential skills to respond to the changes and new challenges that characterize the fast changing world of Financial Technology. The goal is that students master cutting-edge financial theory as well as advanced analytical techniques which have become a key to the success of the new breed of financial experts. Students will be exposed to emerging concepts, practices and techniques in the finance industry through rigorous training in empirical research and modeling, using a variety of professional databases and computer software packages. 

The concentration offers two tracks - financial technology and financial analysis.  Within these two tracks students will be able to develop expertise in areas such as investment banking, quantitative risk analyst,  financial controller, and private equity analyst.

Courses:

Foundation Course - Prerequisite for all incoming students with non-business and non-technology undergraduate degrees. Also required for students who have not taken previous courses in mathematics or statistics, such as Math 1520; Math 4100; DSES 4140 or DSES 6160:

• MGMT 4xxx Mathematics and Statistics Foundations

All students - in Financial Technology and Financial Analysis - take all courses from the list of basic foundation courses below. However, students with relevant previous undergraduate and graduate course work can subsitute one of these courses with a “concentration” course with the consent of the adviser:

• MGMT 6030 - Financial Management II Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 7730 - Economics and Institutions Credit Hours: 3
• MGMT 7740 - Accounting for Reporting and Control Credit Hours: 3

Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship

This concentration is designed to prepare students to become entrepreneurs, experts at legal aspects of technology transfer, or managers in new product development centers in high technology companies.   There is a special focus on learning a given technology or science at the graduate level plus the legal issues in commercializing technology as well fundamentals in new product management.    In this concentration, the capstone course is Creating and Managing an Enterprise II. The four elective courses are from other departments in science and engineering in the Institute, and the remaining credits consist of these legal study courses, all of which are delivered on campus by the Albany Law School:

Contracts   (2 credits)
Introduction to Intellectual Property (2 credits)
Law of Technology Transfer (2 credits)