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Recommended Books

If you'd like to learn more about designing and solving optimization models for practical business problems, one of your best resources is a textbook aimed at current MBA students.  Frontline Systems has worked with the authors of more than a dozen management science textbooks -- on these pages, we'll tell you about some of our favorite choices.

If you'd like to learn more about programming the Excel Solver or using other analytical methods in VBA, or if you're curious about the advanced optimization methods used in Frontline Systems' Solver Engines, we have some unique resources to recommend to you.

We especially recommend the textbooks Management Science:  The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets by Stephen G. Powell and Kenneth R. Baker, published by John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-470-03840-3, and Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Management Science by Cliff T. Ragsdale, published by South-Western College Publishing, ISBN 0-324-31256-3.

You can easily order these books from Amazon.com, "Earth's Biggest Bookstore."  Frontline participates in the Amazon.com Associates Program, through which we can "point" you directly to these books in Amazon.com's online catalog.

If you click the Ordering Info link for one of these books, then click "Add it to your Shopping Cart," Amazon.com will place a tentative order for the book.  Only when and if you "check out," confirm the order and supply your credit card and shipping address will this become a definite order. If you add the book to your shopping cart when you first click through, and later confirm the purchase, we receive a small commission on some of these books from Amazon.com.


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