It is part of the badge of being a red-blooded American businessman to oppose government regulation of business and-as the ultimate anathema-to oppose government takeover, i.e., government operation of an enterprise that might otherwise be run by private business. Although the insurance industry has long been regulated on the state level, there seems little or no fear of takeover by state gover...

Bahman Taheri has created a successful liquid-crystal products business in Kent, Ohio. Here, he discusses significant achievements his professional life and the technical, managerial, personal lessons learned.

We describe a new solution approach for order sequencing which reflects the build-to-order strategy of the European automobile industry. Therefore, it has to cope with a daily changing variety of customer orders. Each order consists of a set of commodities which are implemented while the order sequence passes through a body shop, a paint shop, and an assembly shop. Existing solution approaches ...