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