100 Best Operations Research Books of All Time (Updated for 2026)

1

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement

Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox

5.0

Written in a fast-paced thriller style, 'The Goal' contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints developed by the author.

Recommended by Jeff Bezos, Danielle Morrill, Kevin Systrom, and 4 others.

Jeff Bezos

Founder/Amazon

Encourages companies to identify the biggest constraints in their operations and then structure their organizations to get the most out of those constraints. [source]

Kevin Systrom

About basically manufacturing and supply chain management. It sounds really boring, but I promise you it’s really good. [source]

Chris Goward

Here are some of the books that have been very impactful for me, or taught me a new way of thinking: … The Goal. [source]

2

The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

Brad Stone

4.9

Preview Summary

The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos.

Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low pri

Recommended by Doug McMillon, Aaron Watson, Alan Pierce, and 10 others.

Doug McMillon

CEO/Walmart

I read and give this book because you need to understand what you’re up against. [source]

Aaron Watson

Amazon is going to rule the world unless governments decide to break them up. It just makes sense to understand the most powerful company on the planet. Also, there is a (small) chance that Amazon sets up HQ2 in my hometown (Pittsburgh). [source]

Alan Pierce

This was an amazing glimpse into one of the most disruptive companies in history as well as the past and future trajectory of e-commerce and retail. It is also a testament to unwavering self-belief. The thing that impressed me the most is that Jeff Bezos intentionally built an entire department dedicated to making his primary business obsolete which allowed him to take the lead in the next development, e-books. His foresight is extraordinary and he is an inspirational big thinker. [source]

3

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

4.6

Preview Summary

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious—even liberating—book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary r

Recommended by Andrew Chen, Marissa Mayer, Nir Eyal, and 23 others.

Grey Baker

I mainly read to decompress and change my state of mind, so it’s hard to point to an insight I read that helped me. Reading fiction has pulled me out of a bad mood more times than I can count, though, and always reenergises me to attack problems that had stumped me again. That said, I read and loved Norman Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things”, and it’s helped me think through design problems ever since. [source]

Julia Enthoven

For people interested in designing or building software products: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman and The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen. Both books have informed my product sense and helped me make decisions about great UX. [source]

Kaci Lambe

These three books are about how people actually use design in their lives. They helped me understand this very basic idea: There are no dumb users, only bad designers. Take the time to create based on how your design will be interacted with. Test it. Iterate. That's how you become a good designer. [source]

4

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality

Brian Greene

4.5

From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists and author the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.

Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist with

Recommended by Walter Isaacson and Sean M Carroll.

Walter Isaacson

Author

This is the clearest explanation of Newton and Einstein available, and Greene does it with a great sense of humour and wonderful visual thought experiments. [source]

Sean M Carroll

It covers issues that don’t get attention in other places, such as the nature of time, the nature of space and really gives you a profound understanding of the universe. [source]

5

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War

Robert Coram

4.4

John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever -- the man who, in simulated air-to-air combat, defeated every challenger in less than forty seconds. Some recall him as the father of our country's most legendary fighter aircraft -- the F-15 and F-16. Still others think of Boyd as the most influential mi

Recommended by Ryan Holiday.

Ryan Holiday

Author

Boyd was probably the greatest post-WWII military strategist; he developed the F-15 and F-16, revolutionized ground tactics in war and covertly designed the US battle plans for the Gulf War. He shunned wealth, fame, and power all to accomplish what he felt needed to be accomplished. Coram captures his essence in a way that no other author has touched. [source]

6

Julia Programming for Operations Research

Changhyun Kwon

4.4

7

Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations

Nicole Forsgren PhD

4.3

Does technology actually matter? And how can we apply technology to drive business value? For years, we've been told that the performance of software delivery teams doesn't matter--that it can't provide a competitive advantage to our companies. Through four years of groundbreaking research, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance

Recommended by Kirk Borne.

Kirk Borne

Fantastic accomplishment! Congratulations @nicolefv on your outstanding #DevOps book ... I love that: “The Science of Lean” ... that works also for #DataOps and Lean Analytics. https://t.co/i9gPhKL0dt https://t.co/DNJpuJtER0 [source]

8

Integrating Renewables in Electricity Markets: Operational Problems

Juan M. M. Morales, Antonio J. Conejo, et al.

4.3

This book provides up-to-date analytical tools to address challenging operational problems in renewable energy production facilities, such as wind- and solar-based generation units. It includes many illustrative examples.

9

Extreme Values, Regular Variation and Point Processes

Sidney I. Resnick

4.3

Extremes Values, Regular Variation and Point Processes is a readable and efficient account of the fundamental mathematical and stochastic process techniques needed to study the behavior of extreme values of phenomena based on independent and identically distributed random variables and vectors. It presents a coherent treatment of the distributional and sample path fundamental properties of extreme

10

Good News About Sex & Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions about Catholic Teaching

Christopher West

4.3

The author, a diocesan director of marriage and family life, answers the questions about human sexuality and marriage that he always encounters in the numerous adult audiences he addresses. He provides thoughtful responses that present Catholic Church teaching in a fresh, thoroughly appealing, and convincing manner.

Foreword by Charles J. Chaput.

11

Introductory Management Science: Decision Modeling with Spreadsheets

F. J. Gould, C. P. Schmidt, Jeffrey H. Moore, Larry R. Weatherford, Gary D. Eppen

4.3

Suitable for a management science or operations research course which takes a spreadsheet approach, this text introduces readers to the key ideas of modelling and management decision making. The book offers a conceptual foundation for all topics and the role of spreadsheet modelling techniques in th larger context of business decision-making.

12

Practical Financial Optimization: Decision Making for Financial Engineers

Stavros A. Zenios, Harry M. Markowitz

4.3

Practical Financial Optimization is a comprehensive guide to optimization techniques in financial decision making. This book illuminates the relationship between theory and practice, providing the readers with solid foundational knowledge. Focuses on classical static mean-variance analysis and portfolio immunization, scenario-based models, multi-period dynamic portfolio optimization, and the relat

13

Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight

JOHN W. FOREMAN

4.3

Data Science gets thrown around in the press like it's magic. Major retailers are predicting everything from when their customers are pregnant to when they want a new pair of Chuck Taylors. It's a brave new world where seemingly meaningless data can be transformed into valuable insight to drive smart business decisions.

But how does one exactly do data science? Do you have to hire one of these prie

14

Introduction To Operations Research

MC GRAW HILL INDIA

4.3

15

Rapid Modelling for Increasing Competitiveness: Tools and Mindset

Gerald Reiner

4.3

A Perspective on Two Decades of Rapid Modeling It is an honor for me to be asked to write a foreword to the Proceedings of the 1st Rapid Modeling Conference. In 1987, when I coined the term Rapid Modeling to denote queuing modeling of manufacturing systems, I never imagined that two decades later there would be an international conference devoted to this topic! I am delighted to see that there wil

16

Convex Optimization

Stephen Boyd, Lieven Vandenberghe

4.3

Convex optimization problems arise frequently in many different fields. A comprehensive introduction to the subject, this book shows in detail how such problems can be solved numerically with great efficiency. The focus is on recognizing convex optimization problems and then finding the most appropriate technique for solving them. The text contains many worked examples and homework exercises and w

17

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

Peter Seibel

4.3

Peter Seibel interviews 16 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words "at work" suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day–to–day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great prog

Recommended by Santiago Basulto and Vicki Boykis.

Santiago Basulto

Founders at Work and Coders at Work are really good ones too. They’re filled with interesting and inspiring stories. [source]

Vicki Boykis

It’s about how those people got into programming and how they think about it. It’s a very conversational book that really helps you to learn the culture of this industry you’re coming into, and some of its terminology. [source]

18

Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP), Version 3

Carol Ptak

4.2

In the 1950s, a method called Material Requirements Planning (or “MRP”) changed the world of manufacturing forever. But times have changed—customer tolerance times are shorter, product variety and complexity has increased, and supply chains have spread around the world. MRP is dramatically failing in this “New Normal.”

Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP), Version 3 presents a pract

19

Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics

Nathan Yau

4.2

Practical data design tips from a data visualization expert of the modern age Data doesn't decrease; it is ever-increasing and can be overwhelming to organize in a way that makes sense to its intended audience. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could actually visualize data in such a way that we could maximize its potential and tell a story in a clear, concise manner? Thanks to the creative genius of

Recommended by Roger D. Peng.

Roger D. Peng

This book is about how best to present data to other people, what are the tools that you can use, and the types of visualizations that you can make. [source]

20

Numerical Optimization

Jorge Nocedal and Stephen Wright

4.2

Numerical Optimization presents a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the most effective methods in continuous optimization. It responds to the growing interest in optimization in engineering, science, and business by focusing on the methods that are best suited to practical problems.

For this new edition the book has been thoroughly updated throughout. There are new chapters on nonlinear i

21

Opt Art: From Mathematical Optimization to Visual Design

Robert Bosch

4.2

A fun and stunningly illustrated introduction to the art of linear optimization

Linear optimization is a powerful modeling method for discovering the best solution to a problem among a set of available alternatives. It is one of today's most important branches of mathematics and computer science--and also a surprisingly rich medium for creating breathtaking works of art. Opt Art takes readers on an

22

Schaum's Outline of Operations Research

Richard Bronson and Govindasami Naadimuthu

4.2

Confusing Textbooks? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately for you, there's Schaum's Outlines. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's is the key to faster learning and higher grades in every subject. Each Outline presents all the essential course information in an easy-to-follow, topic-by-topic format. You also get hu

23

Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

Wayne L. Winston

4.2

The market-leading textbook for the course, Winston's OPERATIONS RESEARCH owes much of its success to its practical orientation and consistent emphasis on model formulation and model building. It moves beyond a mere study of algorithms without sacrificing the rigor that faculty desire. As in every edition, Winston reinforces the book's successful features and coverage with the most recent developm

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Structured Analytic Techniques For Intelligence Analysis

Richards J. Heuer Jr., Randolph H. Pherson

4.2

Richards J. Heuer Jr. and Randolph H. Pherson turn a lifetime of expertise toward formalizing, adapting, and standardizing a set of 50 of the most robust analytic techniques in use in intelligence analysis today. This ready reference showcases current and cutting-edge best practices and represents a significant leap forward in depth, detail, and utility from existing handbooks.

Logically organized

25

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck

4.2

Preview Summary

"Execution may very well be the best business book of the year, and one of the most useful to have come around in a long time. This smart and pithy book focuses on a simple though vexing challenge: How can the leaders of an organization exhort their people to deliver on the most important goals?....It's rare to find a book like this that blends smart practice with intelligent articulation of how t

Recommended by Faisal Amin.

Faisal Amin

‘Execution’ by Lawrence Bossidy and Ram Charan is a book that talks about decentralization and the fact that you are supposed to relinquish control to get things done. However, It’s one of the key learnings that most startups fail to understand. Luckily, the book has taught me great things about entrepreneurship. [source]

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Analytical Methods of Optimization

D. F. Lawden

4.2

Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this text surveys the classical theory of the calculus of variations. Topics include static systems, control systems, additional constraints, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, and the accessory optimization problem. Emphasis throughout the text is placed upon methods and principles, which are illustrated by worked problems and sets of exercis

27

Radical Focus: Achieving Your Most Important Goals with Objectives and Key Results

Christina Wodtke

4.2

"This book is useful, actionable, and actually fun to read! If you want to get your team aligned around real, measurable goals, Radical Focus will teach you how to do it quickly and clearly." - Laura Klein, Principal, Users Know

An actionable business book in the form of a fable.

Radical Focus tackles the OKR movement and better goal setting through the powerful story of Hanna and Jack's strugglin

Recommended by Dan Olsen and Laura Klein.

28

R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data

Winston Chan

4.2

This practical guide provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R's graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project, and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.

Most of the recipes use the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to ma

29

Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method

Don A. Dillman, Jolene D. Smyth, et al.

4.2

The classic survey design reference, updated for the digital age For over two decades, Dillman's classic text on survey design has aided both students and professionals in effectively planning and conducting mail, telephone, and, more recently, Internet surveys. The new edition is thoroughly updated and revised, and covers all aspects of survey research. It features expanded coverage of mobile pho

Recommended by Jakob Nielsen.

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Simulation-Based Optimization: Parametric Optimization Techniques and Reinforcement Learning

Abhijit Gosavi

4.2

Simulation-Based Optimization: Parametric Optimization Techniques and Reinforcement Learning introduce the evolving area of static and dynamic simulation-based optimization. Covered in detail are model-free optimization techniques - especially designed for those discrete-event, stochastic systems which can be simulated but whose analytical models are difficult to find in closed mathematical form

31

Principles Of Operations Research: With Applications To Managerial Decisions

Harvey M. Wagner

4.2

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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

Annie Jacobsen

4.2

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Pulitzer Prize Finalist and the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51

No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times bestsel

33

Security Operations Management

Robert D. McCrie

4.2

Security Operations Management, 3rd edition, is the latest edition the seminal reference on corporate security management operations for today's security management professionals and students. The book explores the characteristics of today's globalized workplaces, why security has a key role within them, and what the greatest concern are to security practitioners and senior managers. Incorporating

34

Text Mining with R: A Tidy Approach

Julia Silge, David Robinson

4.2

Much of the data available today is unstructured and text-heavy, making it challenging for analysts to apply their usual data wrangling and visualization tools. With this practical book, you'll explore text-mining techniques with tidytext, a package that authors Julia Silge and David Robinson developed using the tidy principles behind R packages like ggraph and dplyr. You'll learn how tidytext and

35

This Is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox

Niklas-Modig

4.2

Lean is the most widespread management philosophy of our time and is currently present in every industry, yet the concept is still vaguely defined and widely misunderstood. This is Lean - Resolving the efficiency paradox was launched in October 2011 and is currently the best-selling management book in Sweden, with 37,000 copies sold in one year. By using clear, concise language and insightful exam

36

In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation

William J. Cook

4.2

What is the shortest possible route for a traveling salesman seeking to visit each city on a list exactly once and return to his city of origin? It sounds simple enough, yet the traveling salesman problem is one of the most intensely studied puzzles in applied mathematics--and it has defied solution to this day. In this book, William Cook takes readers on a mathematical excursion, picking up the s

Recommended by Nick Higham.

Nick Higham

The problem is very hard. Even with the fastest computers and the best algorithms that we have today, we aren’t able to solve it yet. [source]

37

Fundamentals of Queueing Theory (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics Book 399)

John F. Shortle

4.2

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The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Karl R. Popper

4.2

2014 Reprint of Original 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science presented a striking new picture of the logical character of scientific discovery--a picture which does full justice to the liberating effect of the Einsteinian revolution in physics and its immense impact

39

The Toyota Engagement Equation: How to Understand and Implement Continuous Improvement Thinking in Any Organization

Tracey Richardson

4.2

From two Toyota insiders--a practical, proven formula for developing a successful Lean culture in any organization

In 1986, Toyota opened a factory in rural Kentucky and unveiled TPS, its revolutionary management system. While most manufacturers and organizations now use Lean methods, the application is almost always superficial and confined within existing management frameworks. Consequently, the

40

Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos

Donald J. Wheeler

4.2

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Engineering Optimization: Theory and Practice

Singiresu S. Rao

4.2

Technology/Engineering/Mechanical

Helps you move from theory to optimizing engineering systems in almost any industry

Now in its Fourth Edition, Professor Singiresu Rao's acclaimed text Engineering Optimization enables readers to quickly master and apply all the important optimization methods in use today across a broad range of industries. Covering both the latest and classical optimization methods

42

The Basics of Practical Optimization

Adam B. Levy

4.2

This textbook provides undergraduate students with an introduction to optimization and its uses for relevant and realistic problems. The only prerequisite for readers is a basic understanding of multivariable calculus because additional material, such as explanations of matrix tools, are provided in a series of asides both throughout the text at relevant points and in a handy appendix. The Basics

43

Practical Statistics for Data Scientists: 50 Essential Concepts

Peter Bruce and Andrew Bruce

4.2

Statistical methods are a key part of of data science, yet very few data scientists have any formal statistics training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. This practical guide explains how to apply various statistical methods to data science, tells you how to avoid their misuse, and gives you advice on what's important and what's not.

Many

44

The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm

Tom Kelley, Jonathan Littman, Tom Peters

4.2

IDEO, the widely admired, award-winning design and development firm that brought the world the Apple mouse, Polaroid's I-Zone instant camera, the Palm V, and hundreds of other cutting-edge products and services, reveals its secrets for fostering a culture and process of continuous innovation.

There isn't a business in America that doesn't want to be more creative in its thinking, products, and proc

Recommended by Seth Godin.

Seth Godin

Author, Marketer, Entrepreneur

I don't know if you can teach this kind of creativity, but you can certainly raise your expectations by seeing how well they do design. [source]

45

The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving

Morgan D. Jones

4.1

The Thinker's Toolkit is an invaluable resource for every manager or professional - a unique collection of proven, practical methods for simplifying any problem and making faster, better decisions every time. Thanks to the computer and communications revolutions, businesspeople today are inundated with more data than ever before. But making sense of the information and using it to make smart, prof

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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us

Tom Vanderbilt

4.1

Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? That our minds can trick us into thinking the next lane is moving faster? Or that you can gauge a nation s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are only a few of the remarkable dynamics that Tom Vanderbilt explores in this fascinating tour through the mysteries of the road.

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Operations Research: Deterministic Optimization Models

Katta G. Murty

4.1

Provides information on deterministic optimization methods. This book presents techniques of modeling real world decision making problems, modeling examples that illustrate the use of modeling techniques, and a variety of problem classes. It includes various types of algorithms with explanations of how each algorithm works, and more.

48

Second Stage Entrepreneurship: Ten Proven Strategies for Driving Aggressive Growth

Daniel J. Weinfurter

4.1

Daniel Weinfurter, a successful serial entrepreneur who has started two businesses of his own and played major roles in several others, takes the reader through the most complex and challenging phase of the entrepreneurial journey. By covering topics from leadership to business strategy to smart hiring, he explains how to transform a successful start-up into an enterprise that can succeed past its

49

Principles of Forecasting: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners

J.S. Armstrong

4.1

Principles of Forecasting: A Handbook for Researchers andPractitioners summarizes knowledge from experts and from empirical studies. It provides guidelines that can be applied in fields such as economics, sociology, and psychology. It applies to problems such as those in finance (How much is this company worth?), marketing (Will a new product be successful?), personnel (How can we identify the bes

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Practical Optimization

Philip E. Gill, Walter Murray, Margaret H. Wright

4.1

This book is designed to help problem solvers make the best use of optimization software--i.e., to use existing methods most effectively whenever possible, and to adapt and modify techniques for particular problems if necessary. The contents of this book therefore include some topics that are essential for all those who wish to solve optimization problems. In addition, certain topics are treated t

51

A First Course in Optimization Theory

Rangarajan K. Sundaram

4.1

This book introduces students to optimization theory and its use in economics and allied disciplines. The first of its three parts examines the existence of solutions to optimization problems in Rn, and how these solutions may be identified. The second part explores how solutions to optimization problems change with changes in the underlying parameters, and the last part provides an extensive desc

52

The Pleasures of Counting

T. W. Körner

4.1

In this engaging and readable book, Dr. K�rner describes a variety of lively topics that continue to intrigue professional mathematicians. The topics range from the design of anchors and the Battle of the Atlantic to the outbreak of cholera in Victorian Soho. The author uses relatively simple terms and ideas, yet explains difficulties and avoids condescension. If you are a mathematician who wants

53

Q.E.D.: Beauty in Mathematical Proof

Burkard Polster

4.1

Q.E.D. presents some of the most famous mathematical proofs in a charming book that will appeal to nonmathematicians and math experts alike. Grasp in an instant why Pythagoras's theorem must be correct. Follow the ancient Chinese proof of the volume formula for the frustrating frustum, and Archimedes' method for finding the volume of a sphere. Discover the secrets of pi and why, contrary to popula

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Design Rules: The Power of Modularity

Carliss Y. Baldwin, Kim B. Clark

4.1

We live in a dynamic economic and commerical world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are discovering news ways of structuring work, of bringing buyers and sellers together, and of creating and using market information. Although our fast-moving ec

55

Thinking about America's Defense: An Analytical Memoir 2008

Glenn A. Kent, David Ochmanek, Michael Spirtas, Bruce R. Pirnie

4.1

Offers the author's personal overview of analyses of dozens of historic national security issues drawn from his Air Force and RAND careers spanning the latter half of the 20th century.

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Markov Decision Processes: Discrete Stochastic Dynamic Programming

Martin L. Puterman

4.1

The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "This text is unique in bringin

57

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

Joi Ito, Jeff Howe

4.1

This "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist.

The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate,

Recommended by Seth Godin and George Raveling.

Seth Godin

Author, Marketer, Entrepreneur

Joi Ito and Jeff Howe have a new book called Whiplash. Joi's the head of MIT's Media Lab and an extraordinary thinker. Jeff brings the ideas and the lessons of the Lab to life. This is a big think, well worth a deep dive. [source]

George Raveling

The good Lord helped me discover this book. [source]

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Variational Analysis

R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Roger J.-B. Wets, Maria Wets

4.1

From its origins in the minimization of integral functionals, the notion of variations has evolved greatly in connection with applications in optimization, equilibrium, and control. This book develops a unified framework and provides a detailed exposition of variational geometry and subdifferential calculus in their current forms beyond classical and convex analysis. Also covered are set-convergen

59

The Tyranny of Metrics

Jerry Z. Muller

4.1

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government

Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from mea

Recommended by Sanjay Bakshi.

Sanjay Bakshi

A student recommended this book by @jerryzmuller which I liked a lot. It has some great examples on perverse incentives resulting in unintended consequences from measuring stuff and making the data public. https://t.co/SfnVmhlmWO [source]

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Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis

Annie Jacobsen

4.1

The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51.

This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances.

For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to loc

61

Introduction to Mathematical Optimization

Matteo Fischetti

4.1

This book is intended to be a teaching aid for students of the courses in Operations Research and Mathematical Optimization for scientific faculties. Some of the basic topics of Operations Research and Optimization are considered: Linear Programming, Integer Linear Programming, Computational Complexity, and Graph Theory. Particular emphasis is given to Integer Linear Programming, with an expositio

62

O.R. In World War 2: Operational Research Against The U-Boat

C. H Waddington

4.1

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Approximate Dynamic Programming: Solving the Curses of Dimensionality

Warren B. Powell

4.1

A complete and accessible introduction to the real-world applications of approximate dynamic programming With the growing levels of sophistication in modern-day operations, it is vital for practitioners to understand how to approach, model, and solve complex industrial problems. Approximate Dynamic Programming is a result of the author's decades of experience working in large industrial settings t

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Model Building in Mathematical Programming

H. Paul Williams

4.1

Concentrating on building and interpreting mathematical programmes as models for operational research and management science, this book discusses linear, integer and separable programming. 20 practical problems are given, each with discussion, possible model formulations and optimal solutions.

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Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing: Artificial Intelligence for Marketing Operations

Ilya Katsov

4.1

Introduction to Algorithmic Marketing is a comprehensive guide to advanced marketing automation for marketing strategists, data scientists, product managers, and software engineers. It summarizes various techniques tested by major technology, advertising, and retail companies, and it glues these methods together with economic theory and machine learning. The book covers the main areas of marketi

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How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement: A Primer for Becoming the Best in the World

Joakim Ahlstrom

4.1

Your organizational transformation begins here! Comprehensive, detailed, and easy to read and understand, How to Succeed with Continuous Improvement takes you through a real-life case study of one organization's journey to a world-class continuous improvement process.

Joakim Ahlstrom--one of the world's most respected continuous improvement experts--serves as your coach. He first helps you decide w

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Optimal Control and Estimation

Robert F. Stengel

4.1

Graduate-level text provides introduction to optimal control theory for stochastic systems, emphasizing application of basic concepts to real problems.

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Data Reduction And Error Analysis For The Physical Sciences

Philip R. Bevington, D. Keith Robinson

4.1

This book is designed as a laboratory companion, student textbook or reference book for professional scientists. The text is for use in one-term numerical analysis, data and error analysis, or computer methods courses, or for laboratory use. It is for the sophomore-junior level, and calculus is a prerequisite. The new edition includes applications for PC use.

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Operations Research Calculations Handbook

Dennis Blumenfeld

4.1

The field of Operations Research (OR) covers a wide range of mathematical topics. Because it is so broad, results and formulas relevant to the field are widely scattered in different texts and journals and can be hard to find. As the field continues to grow, OR practitioners and students need a convenient, one-stop source for the results relevant to their work. The Operations Research Calculations

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Manager's Guide to Operations Management

John Kamauff

4.1

The secrets to improving operations while maintaining the highest quality

How do you operate at maximum efficiency with minimum cost? Manager's Guide to Operations Management addresses one of the most pressing business issues of our time by offering easy-toimplement advice on creating the most effective, streamlined operations possible. This quick-reference guide explains how to:

Improve your produc

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Mathematics for Operations Research

W. H. Marlow

4.1

This practical, applications-oriented text demonstrates the key role of mathematics in optimization and linear systems. It explains effective procedures for performing mathematical tasks that arise in many fields, including operations research, engineering, systems sciences, statistics, and economics.
Readers will learn how to resolve linear independence and find null spaces and factors of matrices

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Making Sense of Data

Donald Wheeler

4.1

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Operations Research: An Introduction

Taha

4.1

Cover unavailable

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Clarity First: How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance

Karen Martin

4.1

Award-winning business performance improvement and Lean management expert Karen Martin diagnoses a ubiquitous business management and leadership problem--the lack of clarity--and outlines specific actions to dramatically improve organizational performance.

Through her global consulting projects, keynote speeches, and work with thousands of leaders, Karen has seen first-hand how a pervasive lack of

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Data, Models, and Decisions: The Fundamentals of Management Science

Dimitris Bertsimas, Robert Freund

4.1

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Supply Chain Engineering: Models and Applications

A. Ravi Ravindran and Donald P. Warsing Jr.

4.1

Winner of 2013 IIE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award

Emphasizing a quantitative approach, Supply Chain Engineering: Models and Applications provides state-of-the-art mathematical models, concepts, and solution methods important in the design, control, operation, and management of global supply chains. The text provides an understanding of how companies plan, source, make, and deliver their pr

77

Summary of Extreme Ownership: By Jocko Willink and Leif Babin - Includes Analysis

Instaread Summaries

4.1

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Dynamic Optimization: The Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control in Economics and Management

Morton I. Kamien, Nancy L. Schwartz

4.0

The long awaited second edition of Dynamic Optimization is now available. Clear exposition and numerous worked examples made the first edition the premier text on this subject. Now, the new edition is expanded and updated to include essential coverage of current developments on differential games, especially as they apply to important economic questions; new developments in comparative dynamics; a

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The Comprehensive Guide To Clinical Research: A Practical Handbook For Gaining Insight Into The Clinical Research Industry

Dan Sfera and Chris Sauber

4.0

Condensing the most important topics in all of clinical research in an easy to understand presentation. The 20 percent of what you need to know in order to be 80 percent proficient!

The authors who have operated various levels of businesses in the clinical research industry since 2005 believe that more practical information pertaining to clinical research needs to be accessible to individuals who a

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Agile Extension to the BABOK Guide: Version 2

Iiba

4.0

The Agile Extension to the BABOK(R) Guide (Agile Extension) version 2 describes the benefits, activities, tasks, skills, and practices required for effective agile business analysis with a constant focus on delivering business value.

The Agile Extension version 2:
- Describes the agile mindset and positions agile business analysis beyond software development
- Introduces a 3-tier rolling planning mod

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Operations and Supply Chain Management Essentials You Always Wanted to Know

Vibrant Publishers

4.0

After reading this book, you will be able to answer the following questions:

What is Operations and Supply Chain Management and why is it important? What are the key functions within this field, and how do they interact with one another and the broader business? What are the responsibilities and decisions that managers in each functional area think about? How will disruptions in the Supply Chain im

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Applications of Blockchain Technology in Business: Challenges and Opportunities (SpringerBriefs in Operations Management)

Mohsen Attaran and Angappa Gunasekaran

4.0

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User Research: A Practical Guide to Designing Better Products and Services

Stephanie Marsh

4.0

Many businesses are based on creating desirable experiences, products and services for users. However in spite of this, companies often fail to consider the end user - the customer - in their planning and development processes. As a result, organizations find themselves spending huge sums of money creating products and services that, quite simply, don't work. User experience research, also known a

84

The Art of Modeling Dynamic Systems: Forecasting for Chaos, Randomness and Determinism

Foster Morrison

4.0

This text illustrates the roles of statistical methods, coordinate transformations, and mathematical analysis in mapping complex, unpredictable dynamical systems. It describes the benefits and limitations of the available modeling tools, showing engineers and scientists how any system can be rendered simpler and more predictable.
Written by a well-known authority in the field, this volume employs p

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Decision Analysis for Management Judgment

Paul Goodwin, George Wright

4.0

In an increasingly complex world, decision analysis plays a key role in helping managers gain a greater understanding of the situations they face. This updated classic offers unrivalled coverage of the problems associated with unaided managerial decision making and the methods designed to overcome them, all presented and explained in a clear, straightforward manner. The Third Edition is extensivel

Cover unavailable

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HBR Guide to Data Analytics Basics for Managers (HBR Guide Series)

Harvard Business Review

4.0

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Virtual Culture: The Way We Work Doesn't Work Anymore, a Manifesto

Bryan Miles

4.0

It's the twenty-first century, yet most companies maintain a twentieth century corporate culture. Despite instant communication and collaboration through wireless computers and smartphones, employers needlessly rent or own office space. Bryan Miles has a reality check for you: the future of business is virtual, and it's going to take more than technology upgrades for you to upgrade your workplace

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Essentials of Operations Management

Nigel Slack

4.0

Essentials of Operations Management is a brand new concise version of the market-leading text Operations Management. It has been developed forstudents on short courses in operations management – for example, doing an initial course at undergraduate, postgraduate or post-experience level. In these books the author team have set the standards in Operations Management which other textbooks seek to em

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Project Management: The Managerial Process

Erik Larson

4.0

As the market-leading textbook on the subject, Project Management: The Managerial Process is distinguished by its balanced treatment of both the technical and behavioral issues in project management as well as by its coverage of a broad range of industries to which project management principles can be applied. It focuses on how project management is integral to the organization as a whole. The tex

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Operations Management

William J Stevenson

4.0

Stevenson's Operations Management features integrated, up-to-date coverage of current topics and industry trends, while preserving the core concepts that have made the text the market leader in this course for over a decade. Stevenson's careful explanations and approachable format support students in understanding the important operations management concepts as well as applying tools and methods w

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Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management

Gerard Cachon, Christian Terwiesch

4.0

Gerard Cachon and Christian Terwiesch, Matching Supply with Demand: An Introduction to Operations Management, 3e is the most authoritative, cutting-edge book for operations management MBAs. The book demands rigorous analysis on the part of students without requiring consistent use of sophisticated mathematical modeling to perform it. When the use of quantitative tools or formal modeling is indicat

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Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization

Pascal Van Hentenryck, Russell Bent

4.0

Online decision making under uncertainty & time constraints represents one of the most challenging problems for robust intelligent agents. This book presents a different framework, online stochastic optimization, to address this challenge. It offers online stochastic algorithms implementing the framework, & shows many applications.

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Analysis for Improving Performance: Tools for Diagnosing Organizations and Documenting Workplace Expertise

Richard A. Swanson

4.0

This revised and expanded version of "Analysis for Improving Performance" provides the tools for doing the crucial - yet often overlooked - upfront analyses essential to the success of any performance improvement effort. Human resource development expert Richard A. Swanson's step-by-step method allows program developers and managers to: assess an organization's real business needs and the status o

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What Is Lean Six SIGMA

Michael L. George

4.0

A quick introduction on how to use Lean Six Sigma to improve your workplace, meet your goals, and better serve your customers.

Lean Six Sigma combines the two most important improvement trends of our time: making work better (using Six Sigma) and making work faster (using Lean principles). In this plain-English guide, you'll discover how this remarkable quality improvement method can give you the t

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Pricing and Revenue Optimization

Robert Phillips

4.0

This is the first comprehensive introduction to the concepts, theories, and applications of pricing and revenue optimization. From the initial success of "yield management" in the commercial airline industry down to more recent successes of markdown management and dynamic pricing, the application of mathematical analysis to optimize pricing has become increasingly important across many different i

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Lean Strategy

Michael Balle, Daniel Jones, Jacques Chaize, Orest Fiume

4.0

A groundbreaking and revolutionary book that will transform how lean is understood, practiced, and used within organizations

A lean strategy is about gaining a competitive edge by offering better quality products at competitive prices and making a sustainable profit by eliminating waste through engaging employees in discovering deeper ways to think about their own jobs and smarter ways of working

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Combinatorial Optimization: Theory and Algorithms

Bernhard Korte, Jens Vygen

4.0

This comprehensive textbook on combinatorial optimization places specialemphasis on theoretical results and algorithms with provably goodperformance, in contrast to heuristics. It is based on numerous courses on combinatorial optimization and specialized topics, mostly at graduate level. This book reviews the fundamentals, covers the classical topics (paths, flows, matching, matroids, NP-completen

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Introduction to Operations Research

Hillier

4.0

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Competing Against Time

George Stalk

4.0

Today, time is the cutting edge. In fact, as a strategic weapon, contend George Stalk, Jr., and Thomas M. Hout, time is the equivalent of money, productivity, quality, even innovation. In this path-breaking book based upon ten years of research, the authors argue that the ways leading companies manage time— in production, in new product development, and in sales and distribution— represent the mos

Recommended by Tim Cook, John Sculley, Donald Petersen, and 1 others.

Tim Cook

CEO/Apple

Cook loves this book so much that he often gives out copies of the same to his colleagues and recommends this book to the hires. [source]

John Sculley

CEO/Apple

The best opportunities always come from changing the ground rules. "Competing Against Time "is a provocative and well-researched book with some insightful ideas for competing in the 1990s. [source]

Donald Petersen

CEO/Ford

In "Competing Against Time" George Stalk and Tom Hout make a compelling case, supported by extensive research, that a new, time-driven paradigm differentiates successful companies from the "also rans." Through the use of numerous examples, the authors demonstrate that customers seek "the most value for the least cost in the least elapsed time," and that customers are willing to pay a premium for less elapsed time. This book is essential reading for businessmen who want to set, rather than follow, the pace in their industries. [source]

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Simulation Modeling & Analysis

Averill M. Law, W. David Kelton

4.0

This second edition of Simulation Modeling and Analysis includes a chapter on "Simulation in Manufacturing Systems" and examples. The text is designed for a one-term or two-quarter course in simulation offered in departments of industrial engineering, business, computer science and operations research.