University at Buffalo School of Management

MGO 632 MGO 633 Strategic Quality Management* OR MGO 634 in fall (one of these two required) Supply Chains and Global Operations* + SC&OM Elective * Electives – 6-9 credits + Choose two of the following electives: MGO 617 Service Operations and Extreme Events MGO 636 Supply Chains: Design, Modeling & Optimization MGO 637 Purchasing and Global Supply Management MGO 638 Logistics and Global Distribution Management IE 504 Facilities Design IE 506 Computer Integrated Manufacturing *concentration requirements – a total of five courses specific to the concentration. All courses 3 credit hours. # If the student does not have at least one year of qualifying work experience, an internship must be completed in a manufacturing organization or in an operations management function in a service firm. The Cohort System The full-time MBA program employs a distinctive structure. First-year students are assigned to heterogeneous cohorts. A cohort is a group of students who enter the program together and progress through their core courses as a group. Cohorts are also known as learning communities because the expectation is that the group will develop a sense of community to empower its members to learn more easily and more completely. Students will be registered for their cohort courses by Graduate Programs Office staff. Do not, under any circumstances, drop these courses during the drop/add period. If you do, you may be unable to take that course during your normal program. You will be responsible for registering for electives using HUB . Cohort Study Teams Students are also assigned to study teams. These teams will generally be composed of five or six students with diverse backgrounds. Team assignments will be distributed during MBA Advantage. Students are expected to use the tools they learn through MBA Advantage and in MGB 610-611 to manage the team process. Faculty who teach the cohort courses will, however, play an active role in this process by providing general advisement to the class as a whole about effective teams and will work with team mentors to provide specific advisement to teams that are struggling. • Teams should plan to work together as assigned. Learning to work with people who have different styles, attitudes, aptitudes, etc., is part of the experiential learning associated with cohort systems. However, due to the possibility of problems: • • • Each team will submit minutes of team meetings for their Organizational Behavior class that will be reviewed by faculty and the administrative director. Second-year student mentors will be assigned to each team and will help facilitate team processes. Students, of course, may seek informal advisement from cohort faculty, other management faculty, or the administrative director of graduate programs at any time. 18

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