The aim of this course is to introduce management science philosophy, techniques, models and application for informed managerial decision-making. Topics covered include: linear programming, distribution and network models, project management, inventory models, queueing models, simulations, forecasting. This course is designed as an introduction to the field of Operations Management/Operations Research (OM/OR). The focus will be on the application of the scientific approach to decision-making. Small case studies will be covered. It is not our intent to train OR theoreticians in this course. Rather, we seek to convey an appreciation for what an OR analyst does and why it is important. Thus, students who successfully complete this course are expected to have built the capability for modeling business related problems and prepare to get solutions by OR techniques.