The Teachers' Forum: Requiem for the Management Science Course?

Stephen G. Powell
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Stephen G. Powell: Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755

Interfaces, 1998, vol. 28, issue 2, 111-117

Abstract: Many observers of the management science scene believe that the traditional management science course is in serious decline in MBA programs throughout the United States. This trend, if prolonged, could reduce the number of academic jobs for OR/MS PhDs and, more important, could cause one or more generations of MBA graduates to have no appreciation of the power and scope of the management science approach. The author argues that the reason for this is in that the MBA curriculum is increasingly driven by a need to please students, who view themselves as consumers.

Keywords: professional; OR/MS education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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