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Applications in OR/MS

By educ • Jan 21st, 2010 • Category: Uncategorized

INFORM-ED Readings about OR/MS Education

INFORMS Transactions on Education

INFORM-ED articles appearing in ORMS Today
OM and ‘Vegas Night’
OM and ‘Vegas Night’
Solving the MBA Teaching Riddle
The Relevance Trap
Keep INFORM-ED with Column
Probability, Stats & ‘Playing Games’
Time to Update Teaching Cases
New E-Journal Targets Teaching
Changes in Technology, Changes in Education
Building Blocks of Education
Internet Teaching: Interaction Without Inundation
Executive Education Opportunities in Management Science
More than just an Internship
Solving the MBA Teaching Riddle
Teaching With the Lights Out
Experiential Learning in POM
Spreadsheets Will Not Save OR/MS!
Should MBAs Know VBA?
Teachers’ Aid from INFORMS
Issues in Education: Modeling Software & the MBA OR/MS Course
Issues in Education:Using VBA in a Management Science Course
Issues in Education: Not Your Ordinary Scheduling Problem
Issues in Education: Professor Liebman, Will This Be On the Test?
Leading the Spreadsheet Revolution

“Practice Lessons” articles appearing in ORMS Today
Chilean Forestry Firm a ‘Model’ of Success
Forestry Problems Chopped Down to Size
In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio

Feature Articles appearing in ORMS Today or Interfaces

Corporations
• Extended-enterprise supply-chain management at IBM Personal Systems Group and other divisions
• Blending OR/MS, judgement, and GIS: restructuring P&G’s supply chain
• Applying GIS and OR techniques to solve Sears technician-dispatching and home-delivery problems
• An integrated labor-management system for Taco Bell
• Spicer Off-Highway Products Division–Brugge improves its lead-time and scheduling performance
• An asset and liability management system for Towers Perrin-Tillinghast

Health Care
The Transplant Dilemma
Life and Death Decisions
Managed Care
Sense and Sensitivity
Prescription for Online Pharmacy Success
• Diagnosis related groups: understanding hospital performance
• Let the needles do the talking! Evaluating the New Haven Needle Exchange

Public Sector
• see also health care applications
Should the Census Use Sampling
Strategic Uses of ORMS
• Improving the New York City arrest-to-arraignment system

Transportation (esp. Airline) Management
Joe’s Juggling Act: Transportation Management
Airline Alliances
SABRE Soars
When it Comes to Air Travel There’s Safety in Numbers
On the Road to Service
Soaring with Synchronized Systems
• Yield management at American Airlines

Telecommunications Management
Telecommunications Management
• Ringing Up Big Business
• Optimizing restoration capacity in the AT&T Network
• AT&T’s call processing simulator (CAPS) operational design for inbound call centers
• Dynamic workforce scheduling for British Telecommunications plc

Utilities Management
• Using and optimization software to lower overall electric production costs for Southern Company
• How the Gas Research Institute (GRI) helped transform the US Natural Gas Industry

Country-specific Articles
A Country of Contrasts
China: Ancient Country Makes OR History

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