{"id":236,"date":"2008-02-27T18:28:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2008-02-27T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:28:43","slug":"or-at-pg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/02\/27\/or-at-pg\/","title":{"rendered":"OR at P&G"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me be late in the OR blogging game and note that there is a great article on operations research<\/a> at Proctor and Gamble on bnet. It is wonderful advertising for our field, including phrases like “P&G’s Killer Apps in OR”. INFORMS<\/a> was strongly involved in the article, with quotes from Past-President Brenda Dietrich and Executive Director Mark Doherty:<\/p>\n

P&G, GE, Merrill Lynch, UPS \u2014 the list of Fortune 500 companies getting into the OR game is expanding, says Mark Doherty, executive director of the Hanover, MD-based Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), an OR think tank. \u201cIn the private sector, OR is the secret weapon that helps companies tackle complex problems in manufacturing, supply chain management, health care, and transportation,\u201d he says. \u201cIn government, OR helps the military create and evaluate strategies. It also helps the Department of Homeland Security develop models of terrorist threats. That\u2019s why OR is increasingly referred to as the \u2018science of better.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Having sat in on a few too many board meetings, I think calling INFORMS an “OR think tank” is going a little far. But the article does project the very best vision of our field.<\/p>\n

Check out another take on the article at Punk Rock Operations Research<\/a> (and I thought I saw it on another OR blog, but it escapes me at the moment).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me be late in the OR blogging game and note that there is a great article on operations research at Proctor and Gamble on bnet. It is wonderful advertising for our field, including phrases like “P&G’s Killer Apps in OR”. INFORMS was strongly involved in the article, with quotes from Past-President Brenda Dietrich and … Continue reading “OR at P&G”<\/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":[4,11,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-applications","category-companies","category-informs","category-or-in-the-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","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=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}