Management Science Seminars, 1956-1963
These seminars, initiated in 1956, were aimed at promoting knowledge in the management sciences. The meetings served as a medium for the two-way exchange of ideas between members of the Yale academic community and management people in Connecticut industries.
| 1956 | |
| Jun. 19 | Melvin Salveson, General Electric Company, "The Role of Entrepreneurship in a Large Decentralized Corporation" |
| Jul. 21 | Robert Summers, Yale University, "Inventory Policies and Queuing Theory" |
| Aug. 28 | O. Wendell Hamilton, Stevenson, Jordan, and Harrison, Inc., "Inventory Management in a Corporate Firm Manufacturing to a Stock Position" |
| Sep. 27 | Gershon Cooper, Dunlap and Associates, "Acquisition of Capital Assets by a Business Firm: A Case Study" |
| Nov. 9 | Albert O. Hirschman, Yale University, "Demand Analysis in Underdeveloped Countries: Two Case Studies from Colombia" |
| Dec. 5 | Tjalling C. Koopmans, Yale University, "Water Storage Policy in a Simplified Hydroelectric System" |
| 1957 | |
| Jan. 17 | Alan S. Manne, Yale University, "Programming of Economic Lot Sizes" |
| Mar. 5 | Royal Crystal, Connecticut Medical Service, "Cost Analysis at C.M.S" |
| Apr. 16 | Alan Goldman, Norden-Ketay, Inc., "Information Flow and Worker Productivity" |
| Apr. 23 | Leo Schnitzer, Burndy Corporation, "Some Experiences in Applying Inventory Control Models" |
| May 7 | David Votaw, Yale University, "Industrial Quality Control" |
| May 22 | Martin J. Beckmann, Yale University, "An Economist Looks at the Theory of Inventory Control" |
| 1958 | |
| Feb. 5 | Harold W. Watts, General Electric Company, "Maximization Aims in Business Enterprises" |
| Apr. 22 | George Dantzig, The RAND Corporation, "Linear Programming" |
| May 28 | Jacob Marschak, Yale University, "The Theory of Organization" |
| Feb. 5 | Harold W. Watts, General Electric Company, "Maximization Aims in Business Enterprises" |
| Apr. 22 | George B. Dantzig, RAND Corporation, "Linear Programming" May 28. Jacob Marschak, Yale University, "The Theory of Organization" |
| Oct. 21 | W. Reed Smith, U.S. Rubber Company, "Applications of Experimental Design" |
| Nov. 10 | Erich Schneider, University of Kiel, "On the Realism of Marginalist Thinking in Business Problems" |
| Nov. 25 | Ralph Gomory and E.M.L. Beale, Princeton University, "Integer Solutions to Linear Programs" |
| 1959 | |
| Jan. 28 | Julius Aronofsky, Socony Mobil Company, "Linear Programming Applications in an Integrated Oil Company" |
| Mar. 11 | Robert Fetter, Yale University, "Production Planning for a Multi-Product Facility" |
| May 6 | William S. Stapakis and Kenneth R. Blake, United Aircraft Corporation, "Some Theoretical Results on the Job Shop Scheduling Problem" |
| Oct. 20 | Harry Markowitz, General Electric Company, "Computer Simulation of Production Processes" |
| Nov. 12 | Arthur Yaspan, Lybrand, Ross Bros., and Montgomery, "Inventory Policies" |
| Nov. 30 | George Feeney, General Electric Company, "Operational Games as Marketing Experiments" |
| 1960 | |
| Jan. 14 | John Gessford, International Paper Company, "Some Inventory Models and Their Optimal Policies" |
| 1961 | |
| Nov. 27 | Ralph E. Gomory, IBM Research Center, "Large and Non-Convex Linear Programming Problems" |
| Dec. 11 | Geoffrey Clarkson, Princeton University, "A Model of Trust Investment Behavior" |
| 1962 | |
| Jan. 15 | Peter R. Winters, Carnegie Institute of Technology, "Constrained Inventory Rules for Production Smoothing" |
| Feb. 5 | Stuart Dreyfus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Dynamic Programming and Modern Control Theory" |
| Apr. 2 | Andrew Stedry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Explorations In the Theory of Budget Control" |
| Apr. 16 | K.S. Kretschmer, General Electric Company, "Contributions to Discriminant Analysis" |
| May 1 | Chris Argyris, Yale University, "Research in Organizational Effectiveness" |
| Nov. 12 | Martin Greenberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Management, Automation, and the Computer of the Future" |
| Dec. 3 | Myron J. Gordon, University of Rochester, "Joint Factors, Joint Products, and the Optimal Use of Standard Cost Systems" |
| 1963 | |
| Feb. 4 | Salah E. Elmaghraby, Yale University, "Theory of Networks and Management Systems" |
| Mar. 4 | Harold W. Kuhn, Princeton University, "On Graph Theory in Management: The History of a Problem" |
| Apr. 8 | Donald Iglehart, Cornell University, "Some Properties of Optimal Policies for Dynamic Inventory Problems" |
| May 6 | Marshall K. Wood, National Planning Association, "PARM — A Detailed Model of the U.S. Economy" |