Black began working at Arthur D Little, a management consulting firm, in the 60's, taking his first commercial consulting gig with MetLife. Black and his associate Alan Loss, helped MetLife cut costs by optimizing their computer usage.
Also, Black had a girlfriend that helped him learn how to rationalize dishonesty.
A for Bubba.
ReplyDeleteRationalizing dishonesty is one way of putting it; more like being sensitive and realistic though.
BTW: State of the art operations research in the early 1960's was linear programming at a level not too different from what we do in my ECON 2500 classes.