He Saved the Company $10 Million---And Apologized!

Mark G. Simkin and Edward B. Daniels
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Mark G. Simkin: College of Business, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557
Edward B. Daniels: GeriMed of America, Inc., Suite 1200, 999 18th Street, Denver, Colorado 80202

Interfaces, 1989, vol. 19, issue 3, 61-64

Abstract: This is a true, but disguised, account of a young OR-type who found that a hospital didn't need to build a $10 million parking garage. But his findings scrubbed his supervisor's pet project and uncovered an even more difficult problem that he was assigned to solve.

Keywords: simulation: applications; professional: MS/OR implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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