A News Publication of the Decision Sciences Institute

May 1998
Volume 29(3)

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Feature Articles*

Page 1: President's Letter. "The Year of the Member," by Terry R. Rakes, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

From the Editor. Overview of 29(3) feature articles, by Barbara B. Flynn, Wake Forest University.

 

Winner of 1997 DSI Instructional Innovation Award. “Design & delivery of the undergraduate business program at Boston University: A cross-functional, team learning approach,” by Peter Arnold and Anil Khurana, Boston University.

 

EBI & AACSB Joint Study on Student Satisfaction. “Student satisfaction with undergraduate and MBA DS/P/IS programs,” by Dan R. Dalton, Indiana University, and Joseph A. Pica, Educational Benchmarking, Inc.

 

International Issues. "Walk-through audit provides focus for improvements in legal service process,” by Elsa Lai-Ping Leong Koljonen and Richard A. Reid, University of New Mexico.

 

Production/Operations Management. "More cinematic ticklers for the OM classroom,” Karen Brown, Seattle University; Nancy Lea Hyer, Vanderbilt University; Dwight Smith-Daniels, Arizona State University; Linda Sprague, University of New Hampshire and Cranfield University.

 

Research Issues. “Assessing research productivity: Important but neglected considerations,” by Tor Guimaraes, Tennessee Technological University.

 

Information Technology. "Spring cleaning: Time to fix I.S. processes," by Lance B. Eliot, Feature Editor.

 

In the Classroom. "Modeling, analysis and spreadsheets: An antidote for dumb and dumber,” by Rick Hesse, Pepperdine University.

 

Decision Sciences Picture Book. "Framing algorithms," by Andrew Vazsonyi, Feature Editor.

 

From the Bookshelf. "Best practices—Best preachers?", by Andrew Ruppel, University of Virginia.

 

Membership Roundtable. “Introducing the Membership Roundtable feature column,” by Scott M. Shafer, Auburn University.

 

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