Contact Information
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519-661-3288
Expertise
- Competing with analytics
- Teaching with cases
- Competitiveness
- Strategic Management Science
- Pricing and Revenue Management
- Business Decision-Making
- Computer Modeling
- Management Technology
- Operational Research and Management Science
- Statistical Analysis
Peter C. Bell earned BA and MA degrees from Oxford University and MBA and PhD degrees at the Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago, and is a Professor Emeritus of Management Science at Ivey.
He serves as a consultant to corporations, hospitals, small businesses, charities, and government agencies in the areas of competitiveness, pricing, analytics, and operations.
Bell's research interests include using management science/operations research to create competitive advantage, pricing and revenue management, business decision-making, competing with analytics, Excel modelling, and statistical analysis.
In the community, Bell is a Past-President of the Nor'West Optimist Club of London, and was formerly President and Chairman of the Board of Meals-on-Wheels London. In his spare time, he plays golf, and collects and restores classic British motorcycles.
Teaching
- Competing with Analytics: Executive MBA core course
- Business Analytics: undergraduate and MBA program core
- Management Science for Competitive Advantage: BA senior elective
- Executive (short courses) in Business Analytics, Management Science, Business Statistics, and Pricing and Revenue Management
- Workshops on Teaching with cases and case writing
Education
- BA, Hons. - Oxford
- MA, Oxford
- MBA, Chicago
- PhD, Chicago
Honours & Awards
- Awarded L. W. Tapp Prize for MBA teaching 2010 by MBA students.
- Awarded Ivey prize for teaching innovation, 2009
- Award of Merit for outstanding service to the Operational Research profession: Canadian Operational Research Society, 2007
- Elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 2006.
- Awarded the INFORMS prize for teaching the practice of operations research and management science, San Francisco, 2005.
Experience
- Elected Chair of the Franz Edelman Prize Committee for the 2013 and 2014 competitions.
- Elected Vice-President and President Elect of the College on the Practice of Management Science within the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences 2011-15.
- Treasurer of the International Federation of Operational Research societies 2007-14.
- Founding Editor-in-Chief, International Transactions in Operational Research, (1993-2000) and acting EIC 2006-07
- International editorial advisory board, Journal of the Operational Research Society (1999- )
- Editorial Board, Omega: The International Journal of Management Science (1994 - )
- Associate Editor, INFOR (1990 - )
- Vice President, International Activities, INFORMS (2002-2006)
- President, International Federation of Operational Research Societies (1995-97)
- North American Vice-President, International Federation of Operational Research Societies (1989-91)
- The Institute of Management Sciences: elected Member of the 1991-1993 Council
- President, Canadian Operational Research Society (1985-86) (Vice-President 1984-85)
- Visiting Professor, London Business School (UK)
- President, Canadian Operational Research Society (1985-86) (Vice-President 1984-85)
- Visiting Professor, London Business School (UK)
- Visiting fellow, Warwick Business School (UK)
- C-I-L Distinguished Lecturer, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Chevron Distinguished Visiting Professor, Simon Fraser University
Research/Course Development
- Management Science/Operations Research: A Strategic Perspective, SouthWestern Publishing, Cincinnati, Ohio 1999. (Available in Chinese translation, 2001)
- Analytics for Managers (with G. Zaric), Routledge Publishing, New York, NY, 2012
- Author or coauthor of 16 books, more than 80 articles, and more than 120 cases.