Frontline Lab: Manufacturing

3-1-5 units · Graduate

Students partner directly with innovative firms to examine workforce practices and identify redesign opportunities. They tackle real challenges, from reducing turnover to optimizing human-AI collaboration while developing solutions that balance job quality with competitive advantage. Includes lectures, site visits, and a final project in which students develop and share executive presentations of their plans. Provides opportunities for multi-stakeholder analysis particularly relevant to future operations leaders, consultants, or anyone building people-focused businesses.