Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications: Essentials of Practical Management Science (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac®): Essentials of Practical Management Science (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac®) - Hardcover

"The level of difficulty of the examples is varied, so that some examples are quite readily absorbed, whereas others require deeper study. The examples are nicely designed to lead into the exercise sets that follow them."

"In fact, the exercises are graded (not formally) in their level of difficulty, and there are plenty of them, giving the instructor plenty of room to assign a subset of the exercises that the instructor deems to be appropriate for the backgrounds and skill levels of the students studying from the book."

"I like the real-world examples interlaced in the problems and prose. In particular, it is refreshing that the authors admit that the mathematical models take into account several assumptions in order to establish a frame of reference or starting point in solving them."

Wayne L. Winston is Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1975. Wayne received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from MIT and his Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from Yale. He has written the successful textbooks OPERATIONS RESEARCH: APPLICATIONS AND ALGORITHMS, MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING: APPLICATIONS AND ALGORITHMS, SIMULATION MODELING WITH @RISK, PRATICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, DATA ANALYSIS FOR MANAGERS, SPREADSHEET MODELING AND APPLICATIONS, AND FINANCIAL MODELS USING SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION. Wayne has published over 20 articles in leading journals and has won many teaching awards, including the school-wide MBA award four times. His current interest is in showing how spreadsheet models can be used to solve business problems in all disciplines, particularly in finance and marketing.

S. Christian Albright received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Stanford in 1968 and his Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford in 1972. Since then, he has been teaching in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has taught courses in management science, computer simulation, and statistics to all levels of business students: undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral students. His current interest is in spreadsheet modeling, including development of VBA applications in Excel®. Dr. Albright has published more than 20 articles in leading operations research journals in the area of applied probability. He has also published a number of successful textbooks, including DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING, DATA ANALYSIS FOR MANAGERS, and SPREADSHEET MODELING AND APPLICATIONS.