Serving as a foundation course for developing advanced analytical and planning skills, this course aims to sharpen students’ ability to creatively design, formulate, and construct quantitative models for managerial decision problems.  Specifically, this course is intended to
• Provide students with the key concepts, knowledge, and tools to use data, analytical models and information technology to support practical managerial decision-making. 
• Develop students’ basic skills and hands-on experiences to uncover useful information and to analyse various business decision problems
• Expose students to the practical cases of how quantitative modelling and analysis skills have generated significant business values and competitive advantages.