OR/MS Today

February 1997 - Volume 24 - Number 1

The following table of contents lists articles in the February 1997 print edition of OR/MS Today. You may follow any of the linked titles to read those items in their entirety. For quick navigation you may jump directly to any of the following sections: Departments, Features, INFORMS News, Computing or other OR/MS Today web pages.

Table of Contents
Departments

Inside Story

Letters

Issues in Education

Oracle

Cyberspace

Real World

Calendar

Call for Papers

New Books

Industry Update

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Washington Report

Features

Seven Hints for OR Consultants: By Harlan P. Crowder; How to sell your technical expertise and get clients to acknowledge and appreciate the results

Mission (Not) Impossible: By Lt. Col. Jack Kloeber Jr., USA; The complex role of today's armed forces reinforces the need to teach grad-level OR to military analysts

The Problem With Optimal: By Francis J. Clauss; Better management from better analysis: Educators need to rethink why OR/MS belongs in business school curricula

OR/MS vs. MBAs: Mediating the mismatches: Report of the Operating Subcommittee of the INFORMS Business School Education Task Force. A copy of the complete report, including extensive appendices, is available on INFORMS Online at http://www.informs.org/BUSINESS/

Computing

OR & Spreadsheets

Weighing the Pros and Cons: In spite of some drawbacks, 30 million users tip the scales in favor of using the analytical vernacular of management

Spreadsheet Add-Ins Survey: A side-by-side comparison of software, including pricing and performance information

Spreadsheet Tutorial: By Donald R. Plane; How to build spreadsheet models for production and operations management


Software Review: NeuralWorks Predict: By Suleiman K. Kassicieh, Thomas L. Paez & Guatam Vora; Neural networks package offers choices to predict, classify, rank input data

INFORMS News

President's Desk

Lanchester Prize Call

Edelman Award Finalists

Math Teachers' Workshop

Wanted: OR Slogans

Board Report

INFORMS Prize Call

N.Y. Chapter Schedule

People

Spotlight on Teaching

Meetings

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