An intelligent spouse’s view of OR

This speech was delivered at the 1989 Annual Banquet of the Washington OR/MS Council (WORMSC), the Washington, D.C. area joint chapter of ORSA and TIMS. The incoming President of WORMSC, Doug Samuleson, explained that another banquet a few years earlier had featured a speech called ‘An Intelligent Spouse’s Guide to OR’, but that WORMSC had never actually heard from an intelligent spouse. ‘To remedy this oversight’, he continued, ‘I asked my very own intelligent spouse, a personnel management specialist for the Federal Government and, more recently, a private consultant, to enlighten us’. And did she ever...