Biographies of Leading MCDM Scholars

Murat Köksalan, Jyrki Wallenius and Stanley Zionts
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Murat Köksalan: Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Jyrki Wallenius: Aalto University, Finland
Stanley Zionts: SUNY Buffalo, USA

Chapter 8 in Multiple Criteria Decision Making:From Early History to the 21st Century, 2011, pp 95-156 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractDavid E. Bell was born in Doncaster, England in 1949. In 1971 he received a B.A. in Mathematics from Merton College, Oxford and in 1973 a Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, with a dissertation on integer programming titled "The Resolution of Duality Gaps in Discrete Optimization." He then spent two years at IIASA as one of their first research scholars, working with the likes of Howard Raiffa and George Dantzig. He also co-organized the first IIASA Workshop on MCDM in 1975. He attended the MCDM conferences at Buffalo (1977) and in Delaware (1980) where he gave his first presentation about utility and regret. In 1977 he joined the Harvard Business School faculty where he is now the George M. Moffett Professor of Business Administration. During his time on the Harvard faculty he has taught MBA and executive courses on managerial economics, risk management, marketing, retailing, and most recently, agribusiness. Following six years as head of the school's marketing department he is currently Senior Associate Dean with recruiting responsibilities…

Keywords: Multiple Criteria Decision Making; Multiattribute; Multiple Objectives; Multiple Criteria (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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