- Information systems courses familiarize students with emerging technologies, digital transformation tools, and digital business models, which offer new ways to transform data into value for consumers and firms. Many of these courses involve field-based projects.
- Operations management courses prepare students to design and lead flexible businesses that can capitalize on data-driven insights and that are sufficiently robust to survive the unexpected.
- Statistics courses teach students how to extract actionable business insight and reliable forecasts from the "big data" collected by smart devices and e-commerce applications.
All faculty in the DSO department are very active in teaching, in research, and in various professional organizations. Several of them have earned prestigious research awards and honors, serve on editorial boards of major academic journals, and have won best-teacher awards.