Operations Management–Major Project

Major Project
Assignment
Choose 1 of the
following 5 topics (or email to me a proposal for a different topic). This assignment
is worth 35% of your final mark. No groups, please.
Your response for
the major project might vary in form. Most students will likely choose to
create a Word document and write a full-length report. There is no minimum
requirement on the length of such a report – but you should feel like you have
covered the topic.
All responses must
include at least a single-page executive summary and a detailed list of
references. The executive summary should be a complete report all on one page.
The references can be in any style, but they should include all your sources,
including personal interviews, if any. Your work should indicate a depth and
breadth of research in the topic. Many of the options below could be satisfied
by “telling a story” – but the story should be augmented by your reflections,
and your reflections should be augmented by your scholarly research into
general theory and into the experiences of other firms.
If you need help
finding good material to read so that you understand more about the assignment
you choose, please do not hesitate to ask me.
The “ideal”
response would be a piece of work worthy of being published as an HBR reading
or HBS case study. Not that I actually think you have time to produce such a
product between now and the due date – just think of it as the highest possible
goal.
The assignment
choices are on the following page: (Please check the attachment.)

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