“Through a Glass Darkly”

The following papers were presented at the American meeting of The Institute of Management Sciences in Detroit in October of 1971. In them the authors discuss such subjects as the relationship between the management scientist and the manager, revisions of the educational process for training future management scientists, factors which make for a successful management science department and a number of other topics critical to the impact of the management sciences on the operations and policy-making processes of organizations.—Editor.

Papers presented are:

—Halbrecht: Introduction;

—Savas: How to make operations research fail in government without really trying;

—Hoffman: The missing 90% of management science;

—Radnor: The shifting patterns of success and failure of management science and industry;

—Edelman: Four ways to oblivion—A short course in survival.