This program is offered by the Department of Management Science and Information Systems (MSIS). It is the continuation of the previous concentration in Management Science and the program of Operations ...

Ellen Davis: What do you see to be the recent challenges and thoughts in the operational risk modelling and capital calculation arena? Jordi Garcia (BBVA): When I started working on operational risk, ...

The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with smaller operations, took a little known and often overlooked Army support function and placed tremendous responsibility on its shoulders. Over the ...

What are operational concepts, and how do they contribute to military strength? Essentially, operational concepts are generic schemes of maneuver. They provide the conceptual basis for operational ...

The operational level of war, once dominant in Cold War-era debates over conventional strategy in the 1980s, is the missing link in mainstream security analysis. By demonstrating how strategic aims ...

In this paper we perform an empirical study pointing out several pitfalls of the standard methodologies for quantifying operational losses. Firstly, we use extreme value theory to model real ...

If you’ve been reading this Slate series on operations management, you’ve learned about all sorts of tricks companies use to make their processes quicker and smoother. Southwest’s preferred model of ...

There’s been a lot of discussion recently about autonomous databases, which offer the promise of keeping database systems stable and performant while alleviating much of the tuning and configuration ...

There are many ways to measure the performance of a company so as to determine if it is doing well. The most common method is to look at its gross or net profit. This, however, isn't always a reliable ...