Syllabus

Weekly Assignment Sheets
(New one posted each week.  Future week readings subject to revision.)

• First Day Assignment (includes homeworks 1 and 2) [Oct. 2]

   SKS Ch.1, TTL Ch. 1, Business Week
• Assignment for Class 2 [Oct. 9]

   SKS Ch. 2 & 5, TTL Ch. 3 & 4
• Assignment for Class 3 [Oct. 16]

   SKS Ch. 6, TTL Ch. 2 & 6
• Assignment for Class 4 [Oct. 23]

   SKS Ch. 10, TTL Ch. 5, Economist
• Assignment for Class 5 [Oct. 30]

   TTL Ch. 8, Bakos, Kaplan-Sawhney
• Assignment for Class 6 [Nov. 6]

   SKS Ch. 11, Delaney-Wilson, Geoffrion-Krishnan
• Assignment for Class 7 [Nov. 13]

   TTL Ch. 9, Geoffrion, Magretta, Sodhi (Sodhi's comments on Homework 7B answers)
• Assignment for Class 8  [Nov. 20]

   Brown, Geoffrion-Powers, Keskinocak-Tayur, Partyka-Hall
• Assignment for Class 9 [Nov. 27]

   Cohen et al., Shapiro-Varian (two items in reader), UCLA Internet Report
• Assignment for Class 10: The Future [Dec. 4]

   Penzias, Baran, Lapidus, Yang
• Assignment for Class 11: Term Paper Presentations [Dec. 11]

• "Supply Chains and Electronic Commerce: Partners in the Digital Age", Part I
• "Supply Chains and Electronic Commerce: Partners in the Digital Age", Part II
• "Supply Chains and Electronic Commerce: Partners in the Digital Age", Part III
• "Prospects for Operations Research in the e-Business Era"
• Class 7 Lecture Notes
• Class 8 Lecture Notes
• Class 8 SAILS Demo, by Abhinav Dhall: slides | spreadsheet
• Class 9 Discrete Event Simulation, by Murat Bayiz: slides
• Class 9 Multi-Unit Dutch Auction, by Aydin Alptekinoglu: slides | spreadsheet
• Class 9 Lecture Notes
• Class 10 Lecture Notes, Part I: Growing Importance of Information G&S
• Class 10 Lecture Notes, Part II: Near-Term Evolution of SC Coordination & eMarkets (slides on file in FEMBA Office)
• Class 10 Lecture Notes, Part III: A Vision of How Supply Chain Apps Will Evolve (slides on file in FEMBA Office)
• Class 10 Lecture Notes, Part IV:  IT Trends: Implications for e-Business and Supply Chains and accompanying slides
• Class 10 Lecture Notes, Always Online, by Max Moroz

 

• Homework 2 (self-description)
• Homework 6A (decision technology for the digital economy)
• Term Paper (due Class 10) 

External Speakers

• Dr. George Rebane, VP Advanced Projects (Class 2)

BizRate.com
   Bio | Company | Slides
• Mr. Fred Held, Sr. e-Business Consultant (Class 3)

IBM
   Bio | Company | Slides
• Mr. Logan Smith, VP of Business Development and Strategic Alliances (Class 4)

Vizional Technologies, Inc. (formerly GOwarehouse, Inc.)
   Bio | Company | Slides
• Dr. Cosimo Spera, CEO (Class 5)

Saltare.com
   Bio | Company | Slides
• Mr. Robert Darroll, Founder, Chairman, President and CEO (Class 8)

Cheetah Software Systems
   Bio | Company | Slides
• Mr. Richard Pollock, Senior VP Logistics and Customer Service (Class 9)

The Right Start
   Bio | Company | Slides
• Dr. Jeffrey Cole, Director (Class 10)

UCLA Center for Communication Policy
Bio | Center | Slides
 

Page last edited 17 December, 2000

Questions, comments to Prof. Geoffrion.