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The healthcare industry, accounting for over 17% of the US GDP, stands at the forefront of rapid growth and innovation, offering vast opportunities and challenges for engineers. This course is specifically designed for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in healthcare engineering and healthcare management, focusing on the pivotal role of data and management engineers in revolutionizing healthcare systems through the integration of advanced mathematical, economic, and managerial principles. The course covers innovative methods for designing experiments, modeling healthcare systems, leveraging big data amidst uncertainty, and specifically, delve into advanced techniques for anomaly detection in healthcare settings, identifying outliers that may indicate critical health trends or emergent crises. Through exploring these methodologies with applications from recent research to illustrate each concept, this course is structured to foster a collaborative learning environment, encouraging participants to contribute to the advancement of personalized medicine, evidence-based practices, and informed healthcare policymaking.

This course teaches students how to apply product management skills to create products and services for the "real economy." Students will learn the basics of product management and the product lifecycle and design a product in a team setting. They will also learn iterative product development with an eye towards applying those skills towards products that produce real economic value for society as well as the entrepreneurs. This course includes instruction from seasoned industry veterans and guest speakers. Students will be guided through identifying an opportunity, designing a solution, launching a product, and building a roadmap. The content is tailored to students interested in developing real products and delivering solutions within startups, established companies, non-profits, governments, and non-governmental organizations. The goal is to teach students the fundamentals of product management and equip them with the knowledge to make meaningful progress on some of the biggest challenges facing society. This course requires an application due to limited enrollment. Application Link: https://forms.gle/xw2954HGSsN5JLB18 ( CEE 250 and MS&E 265 share an application). Application Deadline: Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 9PM PT

The service sector accounts for approximately 80% of GDP and employment in the US. It is therefore imperative to develop efficient and effective operations of services. The management of service operations can require quite different constraints and objectives than manufacturing operations. The course examines both traditional and new approaches for achieving operational competitiveness in service businesses including (online) marketplaces. Topics include the service concept and operations strategy, the design of effective service delivery systems, capacity management, queuing, quality, revenue management as well as concepts from the design of marketplaces such as matching, congestion and auctions.

Introduction to the basic concepts of strategy, with emphasis on high technology firms. Topics: competitive positioning, resource-based perspectives, co-opetition and standards setting, and complexity/evolutionary perspectives. Limited enrollment. For graduate students and seniors only. Students must attend the first class session.

Introduces core marketing concepts to bring a new product or service to market and build for its success. Geared to both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs alike who have a passion for innovation. Not appropriate for students with extensive marketing experience. Course themes include: Identifying markets and opportunities, defining the offering and customer experience, creating demand, generating revenue, and measuring success. The team-based final focuses on developing a go-to-market strategy based on concepts from the course. Learn about managing self, building culture and teams, strategically think about your contribution as entrepreneur or intrapreuneur to an organization, community or society at large. Highly experiential and project based. Limited enrollment.

How and why does access to entrepreneurial opportunities vary by geographic borders, racial/gender borders, or other barriers created by where or who you are? What kinds of inequalities are created by limited access to capital or education and what role does entrepreneurship play in upward mobility in societies globally? What are the unique issues involved in creating a successful startup in Europe, Latin America, Africa, China or India? What is entrepreneurial leadership in a venture that spans country borders? Is Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurship possible in other places? How does an entrepreneur act differently when creating a company in a less-developed institutional environment? Learn through forming teams, a mentor-guided startup project focused on developing students' startups in international markets, case studies, research on the unequal access to wealth creation and innovation via entrepreneurship, while also networking with top entrepreneurs and venture capitalists who work across borders.

A project-based course where teams of four prepare for the fundraising and launch of an entrepreneurial venture in the "real economy" - that is, startups targeting users in construction and sustainable buildings, manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, energy, infrastructure financing, and manufacturing 4.0, among others. Students gain the experience of early-stage entrepreneurs as they move through stages of team building, opportunity assessment, product-market fit analysis, business model architecture, product planning and development, go-to-market strategy, financial modeling, and fundraising planning. Teams use current AI tools to accelerate the development of their plans and presentations. The course includes weekly workshops, guest presentations from seasoned entrepreneurs and industry experts, weekly meetings with the teaching team, and one-on-one support from dedicated business mentors and coaches. It draws on detailed online material from the CGOE Idea-to-Market program (I2M). The experience features three pitches to panels of VCs and other industry experts - starting with Opportunity Assessment, then Operations and Financial Modeling, and concluding with an Investor Pitch to Silicon Valley VCs and other investors. By the end of the class, students are equipped with the knowledge and network to evaluate and create impactful business ideas, many of which launch from this class. Open to all Stanford students, with a preference for graduate students. No prerequisites. For more information and team applications, visit the course website: https://cee.stanford.edu/venture-creation.

This course provides future founders with substantive frameworks, authentic firsthand insights, and a realistic understanding of the nature of entrepreneurship and building scalable startups. Through real world case studies and conversations with successful entrepreneurs, students gain a clear-eyed understanding of the founder journey while evaluating which entrepreneurial path aligns with their unique strengths and values.

For graduate students and seniors only. Limited enrollment with priority for MS&E MS students during the first week of enrollment. Emphasis on managing high-growth, early-stage ventures, especially those with technology-intensive products and services. Students work in teams to develop skills and approaches necessary to become effective entrepreneurial leaders and managers. Key topics include understanding business models and unit economics, evaluating financing options and capitalization structures, negotiating fundraising term sheets and exit transactions, designing equity compensation and incentives, valuing private companies, managing board governance and leadership transitions, building and sustaining organizational culture, scaling in emerging markets, and navigating ethical decision-making in high-stakes entrepreneurial settings. The course features frequent in-class interactive exercises, including a board meeting simulation and a term sheet negotiation; real-time attendance is essential, as these exercises cannot be replicated outside of class. Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: a college-level financial accounting course (e.g., MS&E 240) or equivalent work experience and familiarity with spreadsheet applications (e.g., Excel, Sheets, etc.).