This is a response to Stone's criticisms of the Spottiswoode report to the UK Treasury which was responding to the Treasury's request for improved methods to evaluate the efficiency and productivity of the 43 police districts in England and Wales. The Spottiswoode report recommended uses of data...

This is the sequel to Urban Issues I, the special issue which was edited by this Department and published in Management Science, Vol. 16, No. 12 (August 1970). Like its predecessor the present collection has been pointed toward delineating new possibilities for management science approaches to...

It may not be possible to be wholly objective, as Messrs. Stimson and Thompson (among others) assert (see [Stimson, D. H., R. P. Thompson. 1975. The importance of `Weltanschauung' in Operations Research: The case of the school busing problem. Management Sci. 21 (10, June) 1123-1132.])....

The papers which follow have been assembled from two sources: the ones by Dr. Branch and by Professors Eastman and Kortanek were submissions to Management Science; the others formed one part of a program organized by Ezra Glaser for the American Association for the Advancement of Science's 1969...

Presidential address about the background leading to TIMS formation. Delivered before the first national meeting of the Institute of Management Sciences, Oct. 21-22, 1954. Parts of the address are omitted.