in the last few decades? The purpose of this research is to clarify the role that Management Science plays nowadays. Firstly, this paper analyses management’s origins, explaining how this new field of study was created, as a consequence of an urgent need, which combined multiple scientific fields (Larnder, 1984). Secondly, the paper will investigate the skills that a good manager should have, referring to the managerial skills that Robert Katz and Heinz Weihrich provided, which are the technical skill