The Best Operations Research Books 2024

1. The Tyranny of Metrics (Hardcover)

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself. The result is a tyranny of metrics that threatens the quality of our lives and most important institutions. In this timely and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage our obsession with metrics is causing--and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from education, medicine, business and finance, government, the police and military, and philanthropy and foreign aid, this brief and accessible book explains why the seemingly irresistible pressure to quantify performance distorts and distracts, whether by encouraging "gaming the stats" or "teaching to the test." That's because what can and does get measured is not always worth measuring, may not be what we really want to know, and may draw effort away from the things we care about. Along the way, we learn why paying for measured performance doesn't work, why surgical scorecards may increase deaths, and much more. But metrics can be good when used as a complement to--rather than a replacement for--judgment based on personal experience, and Muller also gives examples of when metrics have been beneficial. Complete with a checklist of when and how to use metrics, The Tyranny of Metrics is an essential corrective to a rarely questioned trend that increasingly affects us all.

The Tyranny of Metrics (Hardcover)

2. Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The market-leading textbook for the course, Winston's OPERATIONS RESEARCH owes much of its success to its practical orientation and consistent emphasis on model formulation and model building. It moves beyond a mere study of algorithms without sacrificing the rigor that faculty desire. As in every edition, Winston reinforces the book's successful features and coverage with the most recent developments in the field. The Student Suite CD-ROM, which now accompanies every new copy of the text, contains the latest versions of commercial software for optimization, simulation, and decision analysis.

Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms, Used [Hardcover]

3. Introduction to Operations Research with Student Access Card, Used [Hardcover]

This operations research text incorporates a wealth of state-of-the-art, user-friendly software and more coverage of modern operations research topics. This edition features the latest developments in operations research.

Introduction to Operations Research, Used [Hardcover]

4. Introduction to operations research, Used [Board book]

While building on the classic strengths of the original text, the author continues to find new ways to make this book current and relevant to students. One way is by incorporating a wealth of state-of-the-art, user-friendly software and more coverage of business applications than ever before. The hallmark features of this edition include clear and comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of operations research, an extensive set of interesting problems and cases, and state-of-the-practice operations research software used in conjunction with examples from the text.

Introduction to operations research, Used [Board book]

5. Operations Management: Processes and Value Chains, Used [Hardcover]

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Operations Management: Processes and Value Chains, Used [Hardcover]

6. Operations research: Applications and algorithms (Business Statistics), Used [Hardcover]

The market-leading textbook for the course, Winston's OPERATIONS RESEARCH owes much of its success to its practical orientation and consistent emphasis on model formulation and model building. It moves beyond a mere study of algorithms without sacrificing the rigor that faculty desire. As in every edition, Winston reinforces the book's successful features and coverage with the most recent developments in the field. The Student Suite CD-ROM, which now accompanies every new copy of the text, contains the latest versions of commercial software for optimization, simulation, and decision analysis.

Operations research: Applications and algorithms (Business Statistics), Used [Hardcover]

7. Operations Research for Immediate Application: A Quick and Dirty Manual, Used [Paperback]

Operations Research for Immediate Application: A Quick and Dirty Manual by Huntington S. Swanson; Robert E. Woolsey

Operations Research for Immediate Application: A Quick and Dirty Manual, Used [Paperback]

8. Operations Management: Decision Making in the Operations Function (McGraw-Hill Series in Management) [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This book is intended for the introductory course in production and operations management offered by most schools of business administration and some schools of engineering.

Operations Management: Decision Making in the Operations Function (McGraw-Hill Series in Management), Used [Hardcover]

9. The Laplace Distribution and Generalizations : A Revisit with Applications to Communications, Economics, Engineering, and Finance, Used [Hardcover]

The aim of this monograph is quite modest: It attempts to be a systematic exposition of all that appeared in the literature and was known to us by the end of the 20th century about the Laplace distribution and its numerous generalizations and extensions. We have tried to cover both theoretical developments and applications. There were two main reasons for writing this book. The first was our conviction that the areas and situations where the Laplace distribution naturally occurs is so extensive that tracking the original sources is unfeasible. The second was our observation of the growing demand for statistical distributions having properties tangent to those exhibited by the Laplace laws. These two "necessary" conditions justified our efforts that led to this book. Many details are arranged primarily for reference, such as inclusion of the most commonly used terminology and notation. In several cases, we have proposed unification to overcome the ambiguity of notions so often present in this area. Personal taste may have done some injustice to the subject matter by omitting or emphasizing certain topics due to space limitations. We trust that this feature does not constitute a serious drawback-in our literature search we tried to leave no stone unturned (we collected over 400 references).

The Laplace Distribution and Generalizations : A Revisit with Applications to Communications, Economics, Engineering, and Finance, Used [Hardcover]

10. Applied Operations Research and Management Science [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Applied Operations Research and Management Science by Paul E. Torgerson; Prabbaker M. Ghare; Walter J. Fabrycky

Applied Operations Research and Management Science, Used [Hardcover]