Informs Today: The Podcast Series

Sure operations research and analytics are connected. But when it comes down to professional skills - the hard technical skills and the soft skills that business people need - how similar, and different are practitioners of the two? In a new examination of a survey completed by INFORMS members that appears in the March issue of the INFORMS journal Interfaces, Matthew Liberatore and Wenhong Luo of Villanova University highlight differences in hard skills and similarities in soft business skills. Hear them clearly define the two professions in this enlightening podcast.