Jeff Camm

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty; Academic Director of the Center for Analytics Impact; Inmar Presidential Chair in Analytics,; Professor

OFFICE: Farrell 231

BIOGRAPHY

Jeffrey Camm is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and the Inmar Presidential Chair of Analytics at the Wake Forest University School of Business. From 2015-2022, he served as the Associate Dean for Business Analytics programs and led the creation and launch of both the on-campus and on-line MS in Business Analytics programs.

Dr. Camm's scholarship is on the application of optimization modeling to difficult decision problems in a diverse set of application areas including, operations planning and scheduling, supply chain optimization, product design, and conservation. His research has been featured in Business Week/Financial Times-ranked academic journals such as Management Science and Operations Research as well as the renowned journal Science.

Professor Camm has received a number of teaching awards including the 2006 INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR/MS practice. He is coauthor of ten texts on business statistics, management science, and business analytics. He has also been active in the profession, serving in numerous roles within INFORMS, including six years as the editor in chief of Interfaces, the INFORMS journal on practice. He received the 2016 George E. Kimball Medal for distinguished service to the operations research profession and in 2017 he was named an INFORMS Fellow.

Professor Camm received his PhD in Management Science from Clemson University and a BS in Mathematics from Xavier University. He previously held the Joseph S. Stern Chair in Business Analytics in the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati, where he served as department head for twenty years, was awarded the life-time appointment as a Fellow of the Graduate School, and was the founding director of the UC Center for Business Analytics. He has also held positions of visiting professor of business administration at the Tuck school of Business at Dartmouth College and visiting scholar at Stanford University. He has consulted for numerous corporations including Procter and Gamble, Owens Corning, GE, Tyco, Ace Hardware, Boar's Head, Brooks Running Shoes and Kroger among others.

HONORS

2017 - INFORMS Fellow, INFORMS
2016 - George E. Kimball Medal, INFORMS
2006 - INFORMS Prize for Teaching of OR/MS Practice, INFORMS
2006 - Supply Chain Rainmaker, DC Velocity Magazine
2001 - Dornoff Fellow of Teaching Excellence, University of Cincinnati, Lindner College of Business
1996 - Edelman Laureate , INFORMS

EXPERTISE

Optimization,
Supply Chain Design

IN THE MEDIA

May 15, 2020 - Lower Production Output By Meat Plants Could Drive Up Prices At The Store , WFDD| more information
September 1, 2019 - Blending Campus and Corporate Worlds , Delta Sky Magazine| more information
March 12, 2019 - Preparing for a Career in Analytics , Misadventures in Digital Marketing| more information
February 22, 2019 - Prescriptive Analysis In Manufacturing To Boost Profitability , International Business Times| more information
March 23, 2018 - Facebook controversy: Love it or hate it, big data is here to stay , Fox News| more information
March 1, 2018 - Data Driven Success , Delta SKy Magazine| more information
November 30, 2017 - Big Data on the Farm , Modern Farm Business| more information
September 18, 2017 - Why Overconfidence in Algorithms is Bad for Data Analytics with Professor Jeff Camm , The 10 Minutes Business Analytics Podcast
May 14, 2017 - ACBJ Airport Power Rankings , American City Business Journals| more information
October 5, 2016 - Responsiveness and Collaboration: Developing a Distinctive, Holistic, Market-Driven MSBA , evolllution.com| more information
April 20, 2016 - Making Sense of Big Data in an M.S. in Business Analytics , FINDMBA| more information
March 8, 2016 - Future Of Big Data: These Business Analytics Degrees Are Bridging The Gaping Skills Gap , Business Because| more information
May 1, 2015 - Companies must teach employees how to swim in new oceans of data , PC World| more information
March 4, 2015 - Big Data Gets Personal , Cincinnati Magazine| more information

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Optimization modeling and algorithms

TEACHING INTERESTS

Business Analytics, Optimization

EDUCATION

Ph D, Clemson University (Management Science) - 1984
BS, Xavier University (Mathematics) - 1980

PUBLICATIONS

INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics

Total Unduplicated Reach and Frequency Optimization at Procter & Gamble

Camm, J. , Christman, J. , & Naraynan, A.

MIT Sloan Management Review (online)

Data Science Quarantined

Camm, J. , & Davenport, T. H. (2020)

MIT Sloan Management Review (online)

The Recession's Impact on Analytics and Data Science

Camm, J. , Bowers, M. R. , & Davenport, T. H. (2020)

INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics

Next Lives Here: Forging Academic-Industry Partnerships in Analytics at the University of Cincinnati

Fry, M. J. , Camm, J. D. , & Wegryn, G. (2020)

Cengage

Business Analytics 4e

Camm, J. , Cochran, J. , Fry, M. , Ohlmann, J. , & , . (2020)

Cengage

Statistics for Business and Economics 14e

Camm, J. , Cochran, J. , Fry, M. , & Ohlmann, J.

Essentials of Statistics for Business & Economics 9e

Camm, J. , Cochran, J. , Fry, M. , & Ohlmann, J.

Cengage

Essentials of Modern Business Statistics 8e

Camm, J. , Cochran, J. , Fry, M. , & Ohlmann, J.

Cengage

Modern Business Statistics 7e

Camm, J. , Cochran, J. , Fry, M. , & Ohlmann, J.

Interfaces

The Evolution of Analytics and Implications for Industry and Academic Programs

Bowers, M. , Camm, J. , & Chavraborty, G. (2018)

INFORMS

How to Influence and Improve Decisions Through Optimization Models

Camm, J. (2018)

European Journal of Operational Research

The Demand Weighted Vehicle Routing Problem

Camm, J. , Magazine, M. , Kuppusamy, S. , Martin, K. , & , . (2017)

Interfaces

A Practitioner's Guide to Best Practices in Data Visualization

Camm, J. , Fry, M. J. , & Shaffer, J. (2017)

Omega

Learning and Bayesian updating in long-cycle made-to-order (MTO) production

Womer, K. , Li, H. , Camm, J. , Osterman, C. , & Radhakrishnan, R. (2017)

Essentials of Business Analytics 2e

Camm, J. , Cochran, J. , Fry, M. , Ohlmann, J. , Anderson, D. , Sweeney, D. , & Williams, T. (2016)

Cengage

Statistics for Business & Economics 13e

Anderson, D. , Sweeney, D. , Williams, T. , Camm, J. D. , & Cochran, J. (2016)

Interfaces

A Survey of Academic Use of Interfaces

Camm, J. D. , Cochran, J. , & Gorman, M. (2015)

An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making 14th Edition

Anderson, D. , Sweeney, D. , Williams, T. , Camm, J. , Cochran, J. , Fry, M. , & Ohlmann, J. (2015)

Quantitative Methods for Business 13th Edition

Anderson, D. , Sweeney, D. , Williams, T. , Camm, J. , Cochran, J. , Fry, M. , & Ohlmann, J. (2015)

Interfaces

A (very) Short Course on Suboptimization

Camm, J. D. (2014)

The Journal of Combinatorial Optimization

Bayesian Coverage Optimization Models

Cochran, J. J. , Levy, M. S. , & Camm, J. D. (2010)

Management Science

A Branch-and-Price Approach to the Share-of-Choice Product Line Design Problem

Camm, J. D. (2009)

IIE Transactions

Scheduling Parallel Assembly Lines to Minimize a Shared Pool of Labor

Camm, J. D. , Magazine, M. , Polak, G. , & Zaric, G. (2008)

Biological Conservation

Where to put things? Spatial land management to sustain biodiversity and economic returns

Camm, J. D. (2008)

Management Science

Conjoint Optimization: An Exact Algorithm for the Share-of-Choice Problem

Camm, J. D. (2006)

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Jeff Camm

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty; Academic Director of the Center for Analytics Impact; Inmar Presidential Chair in Analytics,; Professor

BIOGRAPHY

HONORS

EXPERTISE

IN THE MEDIA

RESEARCH INTERESTS

TEACHING INTERESTS

EDUCATION

PUBLICATIONS