Department of Management Science

Management Science deals with the applications of analytical techniques towards business related issues.

The Department of Management Science at the Miami Herbert Business School is a leader in research and education in this area.

Department Mission

Our mission is to:

Attract the "best and brightest" to our program.
Staff the management science courses with talented, dedicated faculty.
Provide curricula that give students the concepts, knowledge, and skills necessary to be successful in the profession of business analytics and research.
Create a real-world connection for students through classroom materials and the use of guest lecturers.
Provide an excellent and appropriate analytics foundation for non-management science graduates.
To provide the community with fully qualified graduates capable of tackling the most challenging positions.
To assist students in obtaining positions in the field of business analytics.

World-Class Faculty

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Paul Sugrue

Interim Department Chair and Professor, Management Science

Emma Jingfei Zhang

Associate Professor, Management Science

Research Interests

Network data analysis; high-dimensional data analysis; and temporal point processes

Tallys Yunes

Associate Professor, Management Science

Research Interests

APPLICATIONS: scheduling (sports, healthcare, workforce, machines); product line simplification; political districting; call center operations; information layout; logistics, THEORY: prescriptive analytics, modeling, integer programming, constraint programming, binary and multi-valued decision diagrams, meta-heuristics, large neighborhood search, integration of optimization techniques.

Howard Gitlow

Professor, Management Science

Research Interests

Six Sigma management; quality management; and strategic planning

Alumni Perspective

From Argentina to Wall Street

Miami Herbert Business School alumnus Diego Kantt (right) credits his major with helping him reach his career goals. “UM’s management science [major] is unique and helped prepare me for a career in finance and real estate. It helped me reach my goal to make it to Wall Street.”