Data Analytics and Decision Sciences

Learn about the Data Analytics and Decision Sciences academic area at Darden, its faculty and its work.

The Data Analytics and Decision Sciences area prepares managers for the contemporary business environment, which requires confidence in the use of data and analytics. Beyond digital numeracy and comfort working with data, DADS faculty guide leaders on how to fluently pair qualitative and quantitative observations in support of better decision-making.
 
In DADS offered courses, students design analyses to support both relevant inference as well as decisive interventions. Applicable methodologies in decision and risk analysis, forecasting, machine learning and AI, probability and statistics, competitive analysis, optimization, design thinking, project planning, and management science are studied and applied in realistic case situations.
 
DADS faculty members have applied research spanning all functional areas of business and pursue decision science research whose origins are firmly rooted in the problems of practicing managers.

In 2022, Darden initiated the Bodily Bicentennial Professorship in Analytics to advance faculty research in the field. The position was created in honor of the contributions of Sam Bodily, the John Tyler Professor Emeritus of Business Administration to the field of decision analysis. Each year, this visiting professor will offer new insights and possibilities for collaboration with Darden faculty and students. You can learn more about Data Analytics and the Bodily chair.

Faculty

Michael Albert

Michael Albert

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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Saed Alizamir

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Joe Andrasko

Joe Andrasko

Professor of Practice

Manel Baucells

Manel Baucells

Lynch Family Associate Professor of Business Administration

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Max Biggs

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Samuel E. Bodily

Samuel E. Bodily

John Tyler Professor Emeritus of Business Administration

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Robert L. Carraway

Yiorgos Allayannis Distinguished Associate Professor of Business Administration

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Alex Cowan

Academic General Faculty

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Thomas H. Davenport

Bodily Bicentennial Professor in Analytics

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Rupert Freeman

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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Sherwood C. Frey, Jr.

Ethyl Corporation Professor Emeritus of Business Administration

Yael Grushka-Cockayne

Yael Grushka-Cockayne

Professor of Business Administration
Altec Styslinger Foundation Bicentennial Chair in Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Programs

Phillip E. Pfeifer

Phillip E. Pfeifer

Richard S. Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Business Administration

Dana Popescu

Dana Popescu

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Sasa Zorc

Sasa Zorc

Assistant Professor of Business Administration