1st Edition

Analytics for Managers With Excel

By Peter C. Bell, Gregory S. Zaric Copyright 2013
328 Pages 26 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 26 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

320 Pages 26 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Analytics is one of a number of terms which are used to describe a data-driven more scientific approach to management. Ability in analytics is an essential management skill: knowledge of data and analytics helps the manager to analyze decision situations, prevent problem situations from arising, identify new opportunities, and often enables many millions of dollars to be added to the bottom line... Read more

Introduction: Analytics  1. An Introduction to Management Analytics  2. Models and Model Building  3. Analyzing Sequential Decisions  4. Data Driven Decision Making  5. Predictive Modelling  6. Simulating the Future  7. Simultaneous Decision Problems  8. Revenue Management  9. Creating Competitive Advantage Using Analytics

Biography

Peter C. Bell
Professor

Peter C. Bell earned BA and MA degrees from Oxford University and MBA and PhD degrees from the Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago, and is a Professor of Management Science at Ivey.

 

Gregory S. Zaric
Associate Professor

Gregory Zaric earned a BSc degree from the University of Western Ontario, an MASc from the University of Waterloo, and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University. He is an Associate Professor of Management Science at Ivey and holds a Canada Research Chair in Health Care Management Science.

'Finding a book that can serve as both a functional textbook and a guide for the business practitioner is challenging. In the introduction to Analytics for Managers With Excel, the authors state that their objective is to provide material for the manager of the future. They have succeeded in this goal by writing a good textbook for teaching how Excel can aid in pulling together and using analytic data.'

-Graham K. Rand, Department of Management Science, Management School, Lancaster University