Data Analytics and Decision Sciences
The Data Analytics and Decision Sciences area prepares managers and executives to effectively integrate quantitative analysis into their decision making. This includes learning when and how to skillfully employ quantitative techniques skillfully to gain insights into the resolution of practical business problems.
Students design analyses to fit circumstances and interpret results in the context of action choices. The most widely applicable methodologies in decision and risk analysis, forecasting and data analysis, probability and statistics, competitive analysis, optimization and management science are studied and applied in realistic case situations.
Faculty members have applied research interests spanning all of the functional areas of business and pursue research whose origins are firmly rooted in the problems of practicing managers.
Faculty
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Michael Albert
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
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Saed Alizamir
Associate Professor of Business Administration
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Joe Andrasko
Professor of Practice
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Manel Baucells
David M. LaCross Associate Professor of Business Administration
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Max Biggs
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
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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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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](/sites/default/files/styles/simple_profile_image_200px_1_1_/public/2021-04/Yael-Grushka-Cockayne_faculty-bio_1x1_0.jpg?itok=Jp2MdW3k)
Yael Grushka-Cockayne
Professor of Business Administration
Altec Styslinger Foundation Bicentennial Chair in Business Administration
Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Programs
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Phillip E. Pfeifer
Richard S. Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
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Dana Popescu
Associate Professor of Business Administration
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