Richard believes that an operations researcher, in contrast to an efficiency expert, utilizes the perspective of improving equity for those in a city. Unlike an urban planner, an operations researcher ...

The Operations Management PhD program prepares you to pursue an academic career as a researcher and educator. Faculty research interests range from quantitative modeling to empirical studies using ...

Operations research is a multidisciplinary field that applies mathematical and analytical techniques to aid decision‐making in complex systems. By developing mathematical models, employing statistical ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Barry Nelson has won the 2024 Saul Gass Expository Writing Award, given by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Nelson, Walter P.

Production and Operations Management (POM) is a multifaceted discipline that deals with the administration of processes used to produce goods and services. It encompasses the planning, scheduling, and ...

Richard Larson has been an operations researcher for over five decades. His success in this area earned him the nickname “Dr. Queue”. “I have won all kinds of awards for my operations research over my ...