HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
The content and general pedagogical approach to the teaching of OR/MS in business schools is largely undocumented. A source of historical information is contained in early editions of textbooks, which appear to have changed very little from the 1970s through the 1990s (Papageorgiou, 1996). The textbook by Anderson, Sweeney, and Williams (1983) became a leading text when first published in 1978. It devotes six out of 18 chapters to linear programming, including integer programming. It does not include nonlinear programming and devotes only one chapter to simulation, despite evidence that simulation is the most often used technique in practice (Forgionne, 1983). The eighth edition of this textbook (Anderson, Sweeney, and Williams, 1997) covered essentially the same topics.
Although we have little evidence on how many of the topics included in the textbooks were actually covered by OR/MS courses and in what depth, prior to 1990 most schools seemed to require one or...
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Grossman, T.A., Powell, S.G. (2001). Educational ISSUES IN business schools . In: Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0611-X_272
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