Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets, 4th Edition

  About The Authors

Steve Powell is a Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. His primary research interest lies in modeling production and service processes, but he has also been active in research in energy economics, marketing, and operations. At Tuck, he has developed a variety of courses in management science, including the core Decision Science course and electives in the Art of Modeling, Collaborative Problem Solving, Business Process Redesign, and Simulation. He originated the Teacher's Forum column in Interfaces, and has written a number of articles on teaching modeling to practitioners. He was the Academic Director of the annual INFORMS Teaching of Management Science Workshops. In 2001 he was awarded the INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of Operations Research/Management Science Practice. Along with Ken Baker, he has directed the Spreadsheet Engineering Research Project. In 2008 he co-authored Modeling for Insight: A Master Class for Business Analysts with Robert J. Batt.

Ken Baker is a faculty member at Dartmouth College. He is currently Nathaniel Leverone Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business and Adjunct Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering. At Dartmouth, he has taught courses relating to Management Science, Decision Support Systems, Manufacturing Management, and Environmental Management. Along with Steve Powell, he has directed the Spreadsheet Engineering Research Project. He is the author of two other textbooks, Optimization ...