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Jeffrey Camm

Jeffrey Camm

Inmar Presidential Chair in Analytics at Wake Forest University School of Business

Jeffrey D. Camm is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty, the Inmar Presidential Chair in Analytics, and the Academic Director of the Center for Analytics Impact at the Wake Forest University School of Business. His area of research is applied optimization. A firm believer in practicing what he preaches, he has consulted for numerous corporations including among others, Procter and Gamble, Owens Corning, GE, Duke Energy, Tyco, Ace Hardware, Corning, Boar’s Head, Starbucks, Road Runner Sports, Brooks Running Shoes and Kroger. He previously served for six years as the editor in chief of Interfaces (now the INFORMS journal on Applied Analytics).

Jeff earned a PhD in Management Science from Clemson University and a BS in Mathematics from Xavier University (Ohio). Prior to joining Wake Forest, he held the Joseph S. Stern Chair in Business Analytics in the Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati and he has been a visiting professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the School of Engineering at Stanford University. 

Executive

Track: Industry & Academia Integration

Keeping it Real: The Benefits and Challenges of Academic/Industry Collaboration in Analytics

In this session, we will discuss the benefits and challenges associated with academic/industry collaboration in analytics. Specifically, we discuss three types of collaboration: a market insights advisory board, industry provided experiential learning projects for students and industry participation in an academic center of excellence.