
About the Author About our authors Norean R. Sharpe, PhD, is Dean and the Joseph H. and Maria C. Schwartz Distinguished Chair at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John's University. As the chief academic officer of the Tobin College of Business, she is responsible for the curriculum for 2500 undergraduate business majors and 600 graduate students in one of seven MS/MBA programs, all supported by more than 150 faculty and staff on the Manhattan; Queens; Staten Island; and Rome, Italy campuses. Within the Tobin College is the Center for Enterprise Risk Management, the Applied Finance Institute, and the Global Business Stewardship Center, as well as the acclaimed School of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science. Dr. Sharpe is an accomplished scholar, with 30 years of teaching experience at Yale University, Bowdoin College, Babson College, and Georgetown University, and with more than 30 scholarly publications in analytics and statistics education. Her research interests include time series analysis, forecasting, analytics, and women's roles in entrepreneurship in the Middle East. Dr. Sharpe earned her BA from Mt. Holyoke College, her MS from the University of North Carolina, and her PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. Richard D. De Veaux (PhD, Stanford University) is an internationally known educator, consultant, and lecturer. Dick has taught statistics at a business school (Wharton), an engineering school (Princeton), and a liberal arts college (Williams). While at Princeton, he won a Lifetime Award for Dedication and Excellence in Teaching. Since 1994, he has taught at Williams College, although he returned to Princeton for the academic year 2006―2007 as the William R. Kenan Jr. Visiting Professor of Distinguished Teaching. He is currently the C. Carlisle and Margaret Tippit Professor of Statistics at Williams College. Dick holds degrees from Princeton University in Civil Engineering and Mathema
Page Count:
56
Publication Date:
2019-06-07
ISBN-10:
0135904323
ISBN-13:
9780135904329
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