Erdman Center for Operations and Technology Management
Enhancing Your Analytics and Business Acumen
The Erdman Center introduces you to industry best practices and prepares you for a wide range of cutting-edge careers. You will meet and exchange ideas with executives, managers, and consultants and benefit from a strong network of current students and alumni.
Connect
Connecting you to internships, networking events, full-time job opportunities, applied learning, and more.
Engage
Supporting you and the center is an executive advisory board of industry professionals. Members provide key program recommendations and experiential learning opportunities for students.
Support
Serving as a home base for MBA students specializing in technology strategy and product management, the center oversees the specialization’s recruitment, curriculum, financial support, placement, and alumni network.
Programs We Support
MBA in Technology Strategy & Product Management
Full-time MBA students gain a strong foundation in general management and tech strategy through product management and consulting pathways. Then, using the flexible curriculum, they deepen their knowledge in tech, entrepreneurship, business analytics, and health care.
Certificate in consulting
Any UW–Madison undergraduate student can enhance their undergraduate education by developing critical skills used in the consulting field.
PharmD concentration
UW–Madison Doctor of Pharmacy students can enhance their degree with a concentration in operations and technology management.
Beyond Your Degree
Build consulting and product management skills to stand out in the workforce.
Tech Product Club
Collaborate with peers and further develop your product management skills. For MBA students.
Consulting association
Practice and grow your consulting skills through the Graduate Business Consulting Association.
Workshops and competitions
Expand your knowledge and collaborative skills through hands-on learning.
Graduate certificates
Hone your skills and enhance your graduate degree with customized certificates.
Student and Industry Engagement
Affiliated faculty
Our faculty members contribute to the operations and technology management profession both in and beyond the classroom.
Advisory boards
The advisory boards provide recommendations and advice on matters vital to the center’s activities.
Applied learning
Guest speakers, corporate site visits, and professional development opportunities add value to your degree.
History of the Erdman Center
The Erdman Center for Operations and Technology Management was founded in 1994. Its goal was, and still is, to help students become strong leaders and lifelong learners who create, implement, and improve solutions to global challenges in technology strategy and product management. A generous endowment by Marshall Erdman, in memory of his wife Joyce, made the center possible. The two shared an interest in innovative business practices. Their children extended the endowment, allowing WSB to continue to address a significant need in operations and technology management education.