<br />
INNOVATIVE EDUCATION: Back-to-school special issue<br />
August 2016<br />
Volume 43 • Number 4<br />
ormstoday.informs.org<br />
What quant grads<br />
need to<br />
know<br />
Stairway to success: Advice for<br />
students (and their professors)<br />
in a dynamic, data-driven<br />
world<br />
• NPS: Learning by solving<br />
real problems<br />
• EMBAs: The value of<br />
‘simple analytics’<br />
• How to talk to senior<br />
decision-makers<br />
• Profiles of 2016 UPS<br />
Prize finalists<br />
• Mandate for STEM<br />
educators everywhere<br />
• Teaching O.R., analytics<br />
in Mongolia<br />
• Study: Gaps in European<br />
O.R. education<br />
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Contents<br />
August 2016 | Volume 43, No. 4 | ormstoday.informs.org<br />
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<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 7" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=7"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Simulatio</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 8" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=8"> Inside Story Peter Horner, editor peter.hor</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=9"> Welcome to Analytic Solver® Cloud-based Data and </a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=10"> President’s Desk Ed Kaplan ‘</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=11"> Is your solver provider getting in the way of you</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 12" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=12"> Member-in-Chief Memo reported to us. A diffe</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 13" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=13"> INFORMS in the News Compiled by Ashley Kilg</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 14" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=14"> Issues in Education By Mihai Banciu Tea</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 15" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=15"> This year¹s colloquium features a wide the tenet</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=16"> PuzzlORJohn Toczek puzzlor@gmail.com Dating w</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 17" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=17"> What's Your StORy? Ryan J. O'Neil Head of Dec</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=18"> INFORMS Initiatives Essential skills, CAP & tea</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=19"> Everyone talks about empowering business users. B</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 20" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=20"> FORUMBy John Gunckel and Jeff Winters Wh</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 21" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=21"> can capture overall impact. Member companies repo</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 22" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=22"> ViewpointBy Irv Lustig O.R. & data science</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 23" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=23"> Figure 2: Composition of the analytics group. en</a>
<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 24" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=24"> Viewpoint Comments from survey partic</a>
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<a title="ORMS Today, August 2016 page 31" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d93ab9fc?page=31"> These are executive student projects (teams o</a>
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