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| General ORMS Information | Applications in ORMS | Careers in ORMS | ORMS Cases | ORMS Software |

| Journal Articles about ORMS Education | Tutorials | Materials for Teaching ORMS | Videos about ORMS |

Summary of Applications Available

. 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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