The course will be taught from lecture notes and slides. Students may also wish to consult: F S Hillier & G J Lieberman, Introduction to Operations Research, 9th edition (2009) (7th edition of Hillier ...

Faculty in the Operations Department at Kellogg examine how firms design and manage their activities and resources to achieve their strategic goals. Through both theoretical and empirical research, ...

Primary areas of interest are applied statistics, optimization, business analytics, operations management, inventory theory, scheduling, manufacturing under uncertainty, queuing theory, and risk ...

The PhD in Operations Research program at Weatherhead School of Management is designed to verse scholars in the intrinsic complexity of supply chain organizations and the coordination of operational ...

Operations research/systems analysts bring mathematics and computer modeling to decision-making in order to provide commanders with the best available information and improve the success rate of ...

Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "Managing Service Operations: The Managerial Research Design Process." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-155, April 2008.

At the heart of operations research (OR) is the use of computer modelling and the simulation of business processes as a means of coming up with improvements in the way that things are done within ...

But what do operations researchers do exactly? How do you know you need one? Where can you find them? Let's tackle these one at a time. What does an operations research analyst do? Simply put ...