Education

AB, Oberlin College, 1971; MS, Stanford University, 1976; PhD, Stanford University, 1983.

AREAs of expertise

Management Science, Operations Management

Current research topics

Novice modeling of unstructured problems, spreadsheet engineering, sensitivity analysis

selected publications

With K. Baker, "Methods of Assigning Students to Groups: A Study of Alternative Objective Functions," Journal of the Operational Research Society, 53(3), 2002; with M. Schwaninger and C. Trimble, "Modeling a Control System for Organizational Processes," Cybernetics and Systems, 33, 2002; with E. Fleisch and H. Oesterle, "Rapid Implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems," Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, 14(2), 2004; with K. Baker, The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets, John Wiley & Sons, second edition, 2007; with K. Schultz, "Throughput in Serial Lines with State- Dependent Behavior," Management Science, forthcoming

awards

Award for the Teaching of OR/MS Practice, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2001

professional activities

Academic positions: Tuck School of Business, 1987–present; Faculty Affiliate, Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School, 2001–present; Academic Director, INFORMS Workshop on Teaching of Management Science

Nonacademic positions: Senior Strategic Analyst, Wang Laboratories, 1983-85; Senior Operations Research Analyst, RCA, 1985-86; Senior Management Science Analyst, Merrill Lynch, 1986-87

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