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The Fifth Column: On Becoming an Elephant

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  • Robert E. D. Woolsey

    (Operations Research/Management Science Program, Mathematics Department, The Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401)

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A number of years ago I was teaching in the executive program of the second largest industrial group in a nameless westernized country. My part of the program was a combination of operations research and information systems well laced with what were perceived to be cynical comments on playing company politics for blood. The format was a series of case studies that are guaranteed to trap any unwary believer in quantitative rationality into blowing himself out of the water. I have, over a period of years, collected and used these cases in such programs around the world.

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  • Robert E. D. Woolsey, 1989. "The Fifth Column: On Becoming an Elephant," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 19(3), pages 43-46, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:19:y:1989:i:3:p:43-46
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.19.3.43
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