Business Analytics

Course objectives:
In this course, you will learn how to use Microsoft Excel to analyze data sets and build decision-making models.

Contents:
In this course, we will cover two broad topics: How to use Microsoft Excel to analyze data and how to build decision models. We will use EXCEL’s solver; VBA skills are not required.

Structure:
This is a very hands-on course – most of the times, we will work on decision problems and analyze data sets using Microsoft Excel.

Grading: 
Final Group Project (60%), Final Project Presentation (10%), and Homework (30%)

Textbooks:
Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets” by Powell and Baker, John Wiley 2014.