Management Science Roundup

—“MS training in government”;

—“O.R. at a state prison”;

—“Managerial forecasting by ‘Super-sophisticated naive’ models: Some comments on dent and Swanson's contribution”;

—“News”;

—“Seen Elsewhere: (1) A Cafeteria of Techniques and Critiques by Judy B. Rosener (University of California), (2) Planning Product Line Strategy: A Matrix Approach by Yoram Wind (University of Pennsylvania) and Henry J. Claycamp (International Harvesier Co.), (3) Industrial Advertising Effects and Budgeting Practices by Gary L. Lilien, Alvin J. Silk, Jean-Marie Choffray and Murlidhar Rao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), (4) Risk- and Personality-Related Dimensions of Store Choice by Joseph F. Dash (CBS Inc.), and Leon G. Schiffman and Conrad Berenson (City University of New York), (5) Sales Force Participation in Quota Setting and Sales Forecasting by Thomas R. Wotruba (San Diego State University) and Michael L. Thurlow (Del Monte Corp.), (6) Funds Flow Analysis During Inflation by Richard F. Vancil (Harvard Business School), (7) Design for Communication in the Research and Development Lab by Thomas J. Allen and Alan R. Fusfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), (8) On Modeling by Edward B. Roberts (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), (9) The Nature of a Computer Simulation Model by Marvin Kornbluh and Dennis Little (The Library of Congress), (10) The System Dynamics National Model: Understanding Socio-Economic Behavior and Policy Alternatives by Jay W. Forrester, Nathaniel J. Mass (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), and Charles J. Ryan”.