Data, Models, and Decisions: The Fundamentals of Management Science
By Dimitris Bertsimas and Robert Freund · Dynamic Ideas · 2004
Study guide: Exam CP-311
A management science textbook by Dimitris Bertsimas and Robert Freund, used in MIT Sloan's core MBA course of the same name. Its publisher describes it as teaching management science through real-world applications, using spreadsheets to model and solve problems and covering statistics, simulation, probabilistic modeling and optimization, with over thirty business cases and a capstone chapter on decision modeling in airlines, investment management and manufacturing.
On the syllabus
- Exam CP-311 — Ch. 5 Simulation Modeling: Concepts and Practice; Ch. 7 Linear Optimization; Ch. 8 Nonlinear Optimization; Ch. 9 Discrete Optimization (each for outcomes 3a-3c).
1 Decision Analysis
2 Fundamentals of Discrete Probability
3 Continuous Probability Distributions and Their Applications
4 Statistical Sampling
5 Simulation Modeling: Concepts and Practice
6 Regression Models: Concepts and Practice
7 Linear Optimization
8 Nonlinear Optimization
9 Discrete Optimization
10 Integration in the Art of Decision Modeling
Appendix
References
Index
Sources
- Data, Models, and Decisions: The Fundamentals of Management Science, 2nd Edition (Dynamic Ideas) — the publisher's page: authors, edition, the description used for the lead (the page prints no table of contents, year or ISBN)
- Data, Models and Decisions: Fundamentals of Management Science (Booktopia, Syndetics table of contents) — the chapter list (chapter level only), a Syndetics contents listing for ISBN 9780538859066, the South-Western printing, not the 2004 Dynamic Ideas book itself (its index starts at p. 525, consistent with the 2004 book's 530 pages); its chapter numbers and titles agree with the four chapters the syllabus assigns; the catalogue misspells the last chapter "Intergration", corrected here
- Syllabus, 15.060 Data, Models, and Decisions (MIT OpenCourseWare, Fall 2014) — the 2004 Dynamic Ideas citation with its ISBN (9780975914601) and year
- Data, Models, and Decisions record 10007717 (Stanford SearchWorks) — the 2004 imprint, 530 pages, and the references and index at the end
- CP 311 Syllabus, Nov 2026/Mar 2027 (SOA) — the citation (Bertsimas and Freund, 2004), the four assigned chapters and their learning outcomes