This book represents a departure from existing textbooks. Rather than covering methodology, the book introduces decision support systems through real world applications, and uses spreadsheets to model and solve problems. It uses management science techniques (statistics, simulation, probabilistic modeling and optimization), but only as tools to facilitate problem solving.

The book is used in the core MBA program at the Sloan School of Management for the class titled: "Data, Models and Decisions".

Download Spreadsheet data and partially-and/or fully-constructed models for many of the cases in the book.