{"id":221,"date":"2007-12-26T11:53:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2007-12-26T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T15:53:26","slug":"wonderful-or-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/26\/wonderful-or-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful OR Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cob.sfsu.edu\/COB\/directory\/photos\/Vijay_Mehrotra.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"190\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"135\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnet.com\">Bnet.com<\/a>, which bills itself as &#8220;the go-to place for management&#8221; has a wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnet.com\/2422-13722_23-178846.html\">video on operations research<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vijaym.com\/\">Vijay Mehrotra<\/a> from San Francisco State University.  Vijay writes the ever-fascinating &#8220;Was it Something I Said&#8221; column in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lionhrtpub.com\/orms\/\"><em>OR\/MS Today<\/em><\/a>, and his site has all his past columns.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Vijay gives three reasons why OR is more important:\u00a0 faster computers, niche marketing and outsourcing.\u00a0 I like these themes (though I generally go with faster computers, more and better data, and better algorithms):\u00a0 they are appealing to the business-school audience and are, I think, important reasons why OR is being used more.<\/p>\n<p>Vijay has lots of things going on:  I highly recommend wandering through his site.  My only disappointment is that the &#8220;occasional weblog&#8221; on his front page is broken:  he is someone worth reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bnet.com, which bills itself as &#8220;the go-to place for management&#8221; has a wonderful video on operations research, with Vijay Mehrotra from San Francisco State University. Vijay writes the ever-fascinating &#8220;Was it Something I Said&#8221; column in OR\/MS Today, and his site has all his past columns. In the video, Vijay gives three reasons why OR &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/12\/26\/wonderful-or-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wonderful OR Video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}