OR/MS in A New MBA Program

The University of Iceland launched a two-year executive MBA program in September 2000. The chairman of the program's three-person board (the author) is a professor of OR and together with the director of the program had primary influence on the planning and development of the program. The paper...

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Main Author: Snjólfur Ólafsson
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spelling ftrepec:oai:RePEc:inm:orited:v:4:y:2004:i:3:p:28-37 2024-04-14T08:13:38+00:00 OR/MS in A New MBA Program Snjólfur Ólafsson https://doi.org/10.1287/ited.4.3.28 unknown http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/ited.4.3.28 article ftrepec https://doi.org/10.1287/ited.4.3.28 2024-03-19T10:37:17Z The University of Iceland launched a two-year executive MBA program in September 2000. The chairman of the program's three-person board (the author) is a professor of OR and together with the director of the program had primary influence on the planning and development of the program. The paper describes how OR/MS (Operations Research/Management Science) was included in the program. OR was taught to some extent in five courses, in two of eleven compulsory courses and in three of ten elective courses. These courses are described in the paper, which concludes with a discussion. teaching OR/MS, curriculum design, OR/MS in MBA programs Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) INFORMS Transactions on Education 4 3 28 37
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