The publication of Volume 1, Number 1 of M&SOM marks the end of a process that began more than three years ago: a process whose goal was to create the premier journal in operations management. I will leave it to you, the reader of 1:1, to decide whether or not we have been successful “right out of the blocks” or if more issues must be published before we can rightfully claim to have succeeded. But we will suceed. I am committed to it. So are the distinguished group of senior editors and the esteemed members of M&SOM's Editorial Review Board, whose names are, and will remain, prominently featured in every issue. And most important, so are the authors who have submitted their manuscripts to us.