"The Sixth edition of Introduction to Management Science focuses on business situations, including prominent non-mathematical issues, the use spreadsheets, and involves model formulation and assessment more than model structuring. The text has three key elements: modeling, case studies, and spreadsheets. In addition to examples, nearly every chapter includes one or two case studies patterned after actual applications to convey the whole ..."
"Introduction to Management Science, 2e offers a unique case study approach and integrates the use of Excel. Each chapter includes a case study that is meant to show the students a real and interesting application of the topics addressed in that chapter. This most recent revision has been thoroughly updated to be more “user-friendly” and more technologically advanced. These changes include, a completely new chapter on the art of modeli ..."
Introduction to Management Science(2nd Edition) A Modeling and Case Studies Approach With Spreadsheets (Irwin/Mcgraw-Hill Series in Operations and Decision Sciences.) by FrederickS. Hillier, MarkS. Hillier Hardcover, 870 Pages, Published 2002 by Mcgraw-Hill (Tx) ISBN-13: 978-0-07-249368-9, ISBN: 0-07-249368-2
""Introduction to Management Science, 4e", offers a unique model approach and integrates the use of Excel. Through this approach students are better able to grasp the essential concepts covered in the course and see their utility. Each chapter includes a case study that is meant to show the students a real and interesting application of the topics addressed in that chapter. These cases and related applications cut across all functional a ..."