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