document: Teaching modeling in management science This essay discusses how we can most effectively teach Management Science to students in MBA or similar programs who will be , at best , part-time practitioners of these arts . I take as a working hypothesis the radical proposition that the heart of Management Science itself is not the impressive array of tools that have been built up over the years -LRB- optimization , simulation , decision analysis , queuing , and so on -RRB- but rather the art of reasoning logically with formal models . I believe it is necessary with this group of students to teach basic modeling skills , and in fact it is only when such students have these basic skills as a foundation that they are prepared to acquire the more sophisticated skills needed to employ Management Science . In this paper I present a hierarchy of modeling skills , from numeracy skills through sophisticated Management Science skills , as a framework within which to plan courses for the occasional practitioner
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