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INNOVATIVE EDUCATION : Back-to-school special issue
Great
Expectations
The sky’s the limit for quant grads,
but will their education match their
lofty goals?
August 2015
Volume 42 • Number 4
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• Analytics and the MBA curriculum
• Teaching professional practitioners
• Competitive simulations: game on
• Introducing analytics to adolescents
• Profiles of 2015 UPS Prize finalists
Also Inside:
• O.R. takes on ‘Grand Challenges’
• Roundtable profile:
Analytics at IDA
Shell unlocks the benefits of optimization
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The folks in the petrochemicals business
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Shell unlocks the benefits of optimization with A
Contents August 2015 | Volume 42, No. 4 | orm
ANALYTIC SOLVER® PLATFORM Easy to Use, Industria
August 2015 | Volume 42, No. 4 | ormstoday.in
ANALYTIC SOLVER® PLATFORM From Solver to Full-Po
Inside Story Peter Horner, editor peter.hor
ANALYTICS IN YOUR BROWSER Optimization, Simulatio
President’s Desk L. Robin Keller INFORMS Pr
Is your solver provider getting in the way of you
Issues in Education Daniel Fylstra daniel@s
necessary. It’s now possible to work with big dat
INFORMS in the News Compiled by Barry List
workplace stressors, which have been linked to ca
INFORMS Initiatives CAP update, Doing Go
® CERTIFIED ANALYTICS PROFESSION
ViewpointScott Nestler, CAP, and Sam Huddleston s
Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. In the bi
PuzzlORJohn Toczek puzzlor@gmail.com Moon ro
What's Your StORy? Yi Liu PhD Candidate at Un
PerspectivesJohn M. Ginder and John Gunckel jgind
as those held by a large manufacturing company, a
INNOVATIVE EDUCATION Analytics and
At the same time we have seen an explosion i
back. Ivey students are interested in learning ab
INNOVATIVE EDUCATION
Hooked on Practice However, in the third year of
REFERENCES • choose where to live and work afte
INNOVATIVE EDUCATION Competitive si
There is no unique answer to this problem.
Learning Via SIMULATION GAMES Learning by doing
What's Your StORy? Alan Briggs, CAP Project
INNOVATIVE EDUCATION Introducing analy
For the past decade, my team has worked on
Whoever ask
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INNOVATIVE EDUCATION Profiles of UPS
The Sauder School of Business at the University o
Each project’s trajectory is also differen
teenagers not to make an emotional Facebook post
UPS Prize Finalist: Lehigh University’s E
CPMS THE PRACTICE SECTION The Practice
O.R. takes on ‘Grand Challenges’ Report outlines
these reasons, companies that are interested in r
Grand Challenges
Both improved treatment and reduced expenditures
Roundtable profile: Analytics at IDA
To achieve this goal, IDA maintains a high
Roundtable Profile FFRDCs: Unique capabilities
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Join Us For Fascinating Plenaries and Keynotes Su
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