This paper presents a study involving 15 universities in three different countries: Chile, Colombia and Peru. The sample of universities covered the main universities in three large Latin American countries. Our findings suggest that Operational Research is mainly taught in School of Engineering...

Operations Research & its applications have made noticeable contribution in the field of healthcare since 1960. It has been used in complex decision making under uncertainty. The prime objective of this article is to the aim of this article is to identify the chronological development of the...

The Newsvendor model captures the trade-off faced by a decision maker that needs to place a firm bet prior to the occurence of a random event. Previous research in Operations Management has mostly focused on deriving the decision that minimizes the expected mismatch costs. In contrast, we...