| Article ID: | iaor19971194 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 71 |
| End Page Number: | 80 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1996 |
| Journal: | Interfaces |
| Authors: | Washburn Alan |
| Keywords: | military & defence |
The operations analysis curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School has responded to a variety of pressures for change in the 45 years since its founding, and its managers have continually wrestled with the theory-versus-practice question that has recently preoccupied ORSA/TIMS and INFORMS. Even though NPS is almost unique among graduate schools on account of its navy sponsorship, the present experiences may still be of interest to others.