VBA for Modelers: Developing Decision Support Systems Using Microsoft Excel

This handbook helps students learn to use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA - a programming environment within Microsoft® Office) as a means to automate methods and models and create special applications. With VBA, sophisticated management science techniques work behind a simple and nice interface. Gaining valuable experience, students will develop applications that are user friendly and tailored to a specific problem while the "number crunching" takes place behind the scenes of Microsoft® Excel. This book is for professional models or to complement a course in Management Science, or Operations Research thta includes survey of optimization, decision analysis, simulation, and other mathematical methods applied to business.

Chris Albright received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Stanford in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford in 1972. Since then, he has been teaching in the Operations and Decision Technologies Department in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He has taught courses in management science, computer simulation, and statistics to all levels of business students: undergraduates, MBAs, and doctoral students. He has published over 20 articles in leading operations research journals in the area of applied probability, and he has authored other successful Duxbury titles including PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, Second Edition, VBA FOR MODELERS, and DATA ANALYSIS AND DECISION MAKING, Second Edition. His current interest is in spreadsheet modeling, including development of VBA applications in Excel.