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Peter C. Bell

Professor Emeritus, Management Science

P.C. (Peter) Bell

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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.

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