MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Vol. 67, No. 1, January 2021, pp. 1–5 http://pubsonline.informs.org/journal/mnsc ISSN 0025-1909 (print), ISSN 1526-5501 (online) David Simchi-Levi Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Contact: [email protected], https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4650-1519 (DS-L) Published Online in Articles in Advance: December 22, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3926 Copyright: © 2020 INFORMS In January 2018, when I came on board as editor in � Encouraging diverse methodologies: Management chief of Management Science, I focused on structural Science is now focusing on a healthy mix of computer changes and new initiatives that imply a “change in science, operations research, social science, and sta- direction so that the journal better serves and pro- tistics, so the journal is truly interdisciplinary, publishing motes research” conducted by the entire management scientific research on the practice of management. science community and is “true to its name, a journal � Introducing the Fast Track submission process: dedicated to the science of management, with the This is a submission process designed to attract short ability to impact practice and the ability to serve as the papers with high-quality, original, and high-impact top outlet for new big-idea, high-impact papers” research that is of broad interest. The intent is to (Simchi-Levi 2018,p. 2). disseminate high-quality work quickly while main- Three years later, it is appropriate to reflect on the taining Management Science’s publication standards. impact of these changes as well as trends that have Overall, the board has emphasized that, indepen-...