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Information Management for Marketing
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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT FOR MARKETING (IM-MK)
Six courses (18 credits)

Overview This concentration is for students who want to know what marketing data and systems are useful to meet the challenge of developing and providing innovative services and products.
   
Career Paths Graduates of the IM-MK concentration will be ready to begin careers with organizations such as e-commerce startups, marketing specialty firms that manage large amounts of data, marketing departments of mid-sized and large companies, and more.
   
Advising Notes This concentration is an interdisciplinary concentration, so students should seek guidance from both Marketing and MSIS departmental advisors. Prerequisites for these courses are strictly enforced, so IM-MK concentrators should plan their schedules carefully and early.

Take both:
MKT 310: Data Analysis for Marketing Management
MSIS 309: Databases and Programming for Managers
And at least one of the following:
MSIS 422: Decision Support Systems and Groupware
MSIS 430: International Information Management
MSIS 461: Systems Analysis and Design
And at least two of the following:
MKT 403: Integrated Marketing Communication
MKT 404: Retailing in the Internet Age
MKT 405: Web Page Marketing
MKT 406: Direct Marketing
MKT 407: Services Marketing
MKT 430: International Marketing
With additional choices:
MSIS 414: Computer Networks for Management
MSIS 415: Object-Oriented Programming for Business
MSIS 425: Project Management
MSIS 426: e-Business and e-Commerce Infrastructure
MSIS 427: Knowledge Management: Competing in the Knowledge Economy
MSIS 454: Supply Chain Management
MSIS 455: Decision Analysis
MSIS 478*: Special Topics in Management Science and Information Systems
MSIS 480*: Internship
MGT 497*: Honors Seminar
* Students may count only one of MSIS 478, MGT 497, and MSIS 480 towards this concentration.

For More Information Contact:
Michael Novak, Chair of the Department of Management and Marketing at 617.287.7761 or Jean Pierre Kuilboer, Chair of the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at 617.287.7868.

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