B8148-001: The Analytics Advantage
T - B Term, 08:30AM to 11:45AM
Credit hours: 1.5
Location: URI 142
Method of Instruction: Hyflex/Hybrid
Instructor: Paul Glasserman; Ciamac Moallemi
Course will be taught by Professors Glasserman, Zeevi, Chan, Moallemi, and Guetta.
This class will focus on how analytics have generated value in a broad range of industries. Each class will be taught by a different faculty member with specific subject matter expertise and will focus on one specific industry and on how it has been transformed through the use of analytics.
The first session will take place on Tuesday March 9th 2021, 2pm-5pm, with guest speakers from the Boston Consulting group. Our regularly scheduled sessions will begin on Tuesday March 16th 2021. Attendance at this first section at BCG is compulsory unless you are registered for another class that conflicts with that first timeslot. To request an exemption, email the TA with a screenshot of your conflicting registration.
Paul Glasserman
Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business
Professor Glasserman's research and teaching address risk management, derivative securities, Monte Carlo simulation, statistics and operations. Prior to joining Columbia, Glasserman was with Bell Laboratories; he has also held visiting positions at Princeton University, NYU, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In 2011-2012, he was on leave from Columbia and working at the Office of Financial Research in the U.S...
Ciamac Moallemi
William Von Mueffling Professor of Business
Ciamac C. Moallemi is the William Von Mueffling Professor of Business in the Decision, Risk, and Operations Division of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University, where he has been since 2007. He also develops quantitative trading strategies at Bourbaki LLC, a quantitative investment advisor. A high school dropout, he received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and in Mathematics from...