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Applied Management Science: Modeling, Spreadsheet Analysis, and Communication for Decision Making, 2nd Edition

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I was a student at Cal State Fullerton, where these professors teach. This is the worst textbook I have ever read. The text is poorly written. The book doesn't read well and has many typos. I would have expected more from the Management Science Department Chair.

If there's a worse textbook out there for this subject (or any for that matter), I've never encountered it. I almost failed the course thanks to this piece of junk. The chapters are about 20% theory/principles on the topics and 80% "how to use Excel to solve the problems." The only problem is that the templates supplied have errors in them and are, therefore, USELESS! Also, Excel is slow to solve and the templates are difficult to use. There is plenty of decision support software out there that is easier to use and doesn't cost a fortune.

Long story short, if I hadn't dug up my 17-year-old textbook from when I took this course as an undergrad, I would never have survived.

If you must use this textbook, you have my sympathies.

I would have given this textbook 0 stars, but Amazon won't let me rate that low.

This is a nobel effort. to try to do a very hard thing. The author however is very hard to follow and at times the explanations drifts into incoherance. Also, I think the author may be too brilliant to write for the average student. He might be better served by having a grad student or military trained person break down the book into coherant steps. This book has some gems of useful info, trapped in some bad explainations. The next version of this may be a truly great textbook. My advice to the author is to simplify and go step by step. Delete text and runon paragraphs where possible. If you take a class based on this book, insist on a lab and a helpful grad student.

Used this book as part of a MBA computer class. The website makes it easy to work on different computers since Excel files can be downloaded from website or taken from the CD included with the book.

Exercises were good and followed most of the material in the book. Almost all the material applied to "real world" situations.

It is very nice text book. That what i can say.