document: Causes of the decline of the business school management science course The business school management science course is suffering serious decline . The traditional model - and algorithm-based course fails to meet the needs of MBA programs and students . Poor student mathematical preparation is a reality , and is not an acceptable justification for poor teaching outcomes . Management science Ph.D. s are often poorly prepared to teach in a general management program , having more experience and interest in algorithms than management . The management science profession as a whole has focused its attention on algorithms and a narrow subset of management problems for which they are most applicable . In contrast , MBA 's rarely encounter problems that are suitable for straightforward application of management science tools , living instead in a world where problems are ill-defined , data is scarce , time is short , politics is dominant , and rational `` decision makers '' are non-existent . The root cause of the profession 's failure to address these issues seems to be -LRB- in Russell Ackoff 's words -RRB- a habit of professional introversion that caused the profession to be uninterested in what MBA 's really do on the job and how management science can help them
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