Marketing and Operations Management Major

Overview

Marketing and Operations Management are two closely interrelated key functional areas of all manufacturing and service firms. This cross-functional major is designed to satisfy the strong need in industry for MBAs with in-depth training in both of the areas. Graduates in this area are better prepared to take challenges in their future career paths. Examples of their first job assignment include brand managers who have to coordinate marketing and manufacturing for a particular product, project managers of consulting firms, participation in new product development teams, members of quality management programs, or managers in the service sector with responsibility for creating and marketing new services.

The joint major requires seven credit units and emphasizes the integration of the two functional areas. Students are required to take the core courses in marketing and operations management, and a marketing research course. Remaining work for the major is satisfied by taking four credit units of electives from the Marketing Department and Operations, Information and Decisions Department course offerings. At least one credit unit must be from the Marketing department and at least two credit units must be from the OID Department.

Professor Lynn Wu is the MBA Advisor for the MAOM joint major. She can be reached at wulynn@wharton.upenn.edu.

NOTE: All OIDD courses were listed as OPIM until Spring 2016.

Requirements for the Marketing and Operations Management Major * – Total of 7.0 course units (cu):

1. Marketing Core: MKTG 6110– Marketing Management (0.5 cu)
                 and either

• MKTG 6120 – Dynamic Marketing Strategy (0.5 cu) or
• MKTG 6130 – Strategic Marketing Simulation (0.5 cu)

2. OID Core: 1.0 CU Effective 2021-2022, MBA students will be able to satisfy the 1.0 credit unit OIDD flex core requirement by taking any of the following classes (two 0.5 CU courses or one 1.0 CU course.)

• OIDD 6110 – Quality and Productivity (0.5 CU)
• OIDD 6120 – Business Analytics (0.5 CU)
• OIDD 6130 – Online Business Models and the Information-Based Firm (0.5 CU)
• OIDD 6140 – Innovation (0.5 CU)
• OIDD 6150 – Operations Strategy (0.5 CU)
• OIDD 6620 – Enabling Technologies (1.0 CU)
• OIDD 6900 – Managerial Decision Making (1.0 CU)

3. Electives totaling 5.0 credit units, with

• at least two credit units from the Marketing Department** and
• at least two credit units from the OID Department (additional flex-core courses (OIDD 612-615) can be included) and

• the courses from the Marketing Department must include at least one of the options from the following set:
  • MKTG 7120 – Data and Analysis for Marketing Decisions
  • MKTG 7710 – Models for Marketing Strategy
  • MKTG 7760 – Applied Probability Models in Marketing
  • MKTG 8090 – Experiments for Business Decision Making (Center Special Topic)
  • MKTG 9400/9410 – Measurement and Data Analysis in Marketing (must take both courses). Students need instructor permission and a permit from the department course coordinator to enroll.
  • MKTG 9420/9430 – Research Methods in Marketing (must take both courses). Students need instructor permission and a permit from the department course coordinator to enroll.

NOTES:

*    Pass/Fail: Courses taken on a pass/fail basis cannot be counted towards the Marketing and Operations major. Waivers: Students who waive a core MKTG or OIDD course, must replace it with an elective from that department.

** MKTG 8900: Students who wish to apply course MKTG 8900 (Advanced Study Project) to the major must select a topic that integrates across production and marketing. Possible topics include new product development, managing the marketing/manufacturing/product engineering interface, integrating front/back office operations in services, after-sales service, and distribution channel management.

MKTG 8900, 8930, 8950, 8970 and 8990: Beginning with the class entering Fall 2014, no more than 1.0 cu credit from MKTG 8900  (Advanced Study Project), MKTG 8950 (Global Business Week), MKTG 8990 (Independent Study) or MKTG 8930, MKTG 8960 and MKTG 8970 (Global Modular Courses) will count toward the Marketing and Operations Management Major elective requirements stated above. Students may combine such courses as long as the total credit does not exceed 1.0 cu.