Quotations

● Operations Research

“… If the topic is more applied: would a company or the government use this in the foreseeable future? If the answer is no…, and it often is, we should not be working on this problem.”-- Professor Dimitris Bertsimasis, Sloan School of Management

● Supply Chain

“…to reduce cost and improve service levels, effective supply chain strategies must take into account the interactions at the various levels in the supply chain.”-- Prof. Simchi-Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

● Manufacturing Systems

"Manufacturing is complex, large scale, multiobjective, rapidly changing, and highly competitive. There cannot be a simple, uniform solution that will work well across a spectrum of manufacturing environments. Moreover, even if a firm can come up with a system that performs extremely well today, failure to continue improving is an invitation to be overtaken by the competition."-- Wallace J. Hopp and Mark L. Spearman

● Project Management

“…then poor decisions in the initiation phase can have detrimental consequences in all of the downstream phases.”—Dr. Harold Kerzner, International Institute for Learning

● Finance

“To help your company accomplish [generating enough cash to compensate the investors], you must be able to evaluate any proposal…and implement only the projects that add value for your investors. For this, you must have expertise in Finance”-- Eugene F. Brigham and Michael C. Ehrhardt