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How to Build the Best Fantasy Football Team, Part 2
UPDATE on 10/5/2015: Explained how to model a requirement of baseball leagues (Requirement 4). UPDATE on 10/8/2015: Explained how to model a different objective function (Requirement 5). Yesterday, I...
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Research Assistant Professor position at University of Miami’s School of...
My department is hiring! :-) See details below. The Management Science Department at the University of Miami’s School of Business Administration invites applications for a non-tenure-track Research...
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We Are Hiring! Three Positions in Management Science
I’m excited to announce that my department at the University of Miami’s School of Business is hiring for 3 positions this year: two tenure-track, and one clinical track. Check out the descriptions...
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How to Build the Best Fantasy Football Team
Note 1: This is Part 1 of a two-part post on building fantasy league teams. Read this first and then read Part 2 here. Note 2: Although the title says “Fantasy Football”, the model I describe below...
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How to Build the Best Fantasy Football Team, Part 2
UPDATE on 10/5/2015: Explained how to model a requirement of baseball leagues (Requirement 4). UPDATE on 10/8/2015: Explained how to model a different objective function (Requirement 5). Yesterday, I...
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Research Assistant Professor position at University of Miami’s School of...
My department is hiring! :-) See details below. The Management Science Department at the University of Miami’s School of Business Administration invites applications for a non-tenure-track Research...
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We Are Hiring! Three Positions in Management Science
I’m excited to announce that my department at the University of Miami’s School of Business is hiring for 3 positions this year: two tenure-track, and one clinical track. Check out the descriptions...
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How to Build the Best Fantasy Football Team
Note 1: This is Part 1 of a two-part post on building fantasy league teams. Read this first and then read Part 2 here. Note 2: Although the title says “Fantasy Football”, the model I describe below...
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How to Build the Best Fantasy Football Team, Part 2
UPDATE on 10/5/2015: Explained how to model a requirement of baseball leagues (Requirement 4). UPDATE on 10/8/2015: Explained how to model a different objective function (Requirement 5). Yesterday, I...
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Portuguese Pronunciation and Language Tips
I’ll be taking a group of 34 MBA students on an international business immersion trip to my native Brazil this Spring. We’ll be visiting about a dozen companies in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de...
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Bringing Research into the Classroom: Can Relevant and Impactful be Easy to...
O.R. researchers and practitioners are constantly churning out papers that tackle a wide variety of important and hard-to-solve practical problems. On one hand, as a researcher, I understand how...
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We Are Hiring! Tenure-Track Position in Business Analytics, University of Miami
I’m excited to announce that my department at the University of Miami’s School of Business is hiring this year. Check out the job description below and please help me spread the word! Tenure-Track...
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Buying Metrorail Tickets in Miami
(Credits: Thanks to my MBA student Mike Plytynski for the idea for this post.) Instead of a subway system, Miami has surface trains like the one depicted below. This is known as our Metrorail system....
View ArticleTheory versus Practice, Intangibles, Intuition, and the Usefulness of...
I felt like putting in writing a few thoughts I often find myself telling my students, and hence this post. You can download a (nicer) PDF version of it here. Theory versus Practice: A Challenge It was...
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How to Optimally Allocate “Bribe” Money
As I sat through a 4-hour meeting the other day, I had an idea for a very useful and generic prescriptive analytics model to be used in conjunction with the results of a statistical learning study...
View ArticleWe’re Hiring: Open-Rank, Tenure-Track
Open-Rank Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Management Science The Management Science Department at the Miami Business School invites applications for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position to...
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(Unexpected) Lessons Learned From a Prescriptive Analytics Course Refresh
I’ve been teaching the core prescriptive analytics course in our MBA program since 2005, and it was once again time for a major refresh/improvement. Therefore, this past December I went for it, and...
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Optimization Games for the Young
I’ve recently volunteered to be a part of the INFORMS K-12 Outreach Sub-Committee and the story behind this post has everything to do with my goals in helping the committee in its mission. The...
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Optimization Games for the Young (Part 2)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a blog post in which I tell a story that motivated me to start creating games for children and young adults to get them excited about Operations Research/Prescriptive...
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