The university of Toronto's Rotman School of management uses management science to create MBA study groups

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Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 126-137

  Krass, Dmitry ^a   Ovchinnikov, Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision analysis: multiple criteria; Education systems: operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645835712     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1050.0194     Document Type: Article

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