How and why have businesses developed common structures such as departments of production, marketing, finance, and human resources? How do the various functions and departments of a company interact and support each other to attain the goals of the company?…Continue Reading Basic Business Structure
This course brings together hands-on studio projects and seminars to provide an overview of design management; the industry’s scope, research methods and strategy, design process, and implementation. It introduces students to the intersecting domains of design, marketing, management, and social sciences…….Continue Reading Design, Strategy, and Industry
This elective will expose students to a variety of design studios that focus on self-sufficient, in-house batch manufacturing and their models of self-production. Students will take on the design, development and limited production of a very simple, low-cost but provocative product that could be manufactured in an in-house studio setting. Topics covered will include market research, issues of efficiency in product, and basic issues of intellectual property….Continue Reading Entrepreneurial Making