Introduction to Management Science

The sixth edition of this book focuses on business situations, including prominent non-mathematical issues, the use of spreadsheets, and involves model formulation and assessment more than model structuring. This text 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. In addition to examples, nearly every chapter includes one or two case studies patterned after actual applications to convey the whole process of applying management science.

Salient Features:

1. Strong managerial Perspective having extensive use of Spreadsheet.

2. A Modelling and a Case based approach.

3. Coverage on new topics like Role of Robust Optimization in What-If Analysis, Chance Constraints, Relationship Between Analytics and Management Science, etc.

4. Thorough updating of the Book. Numbers and other details describing their application in certain problems, cases, and examples have been updated along with capturing the uses of new technologies.

5. Diverse examples, problems, and cases convey the pervasive relevance of management science.

6. Excel tips interspersed among the margin notes.