Advanced Business Analytics: Essentials for Developing a Competitive Advantage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789811007262)

Saumitra Bhaduri received his Master's degree in Econometric from Calcutta University, Kolkata, India, and his PhD in Financial Economics from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India. He currently works as a professor at Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India, where he regularly offers courses on Financial Economics and Econometrics, and on Advanced Quantitative Techniques. In terms of his former career he also worked at GE Capital, the financial services division of the General Electric Company, and has held various quantitative analysis roles in the company's finance services. He also founded and headed the GE - MSE decision Sciences Laboratory, where he was responsible for developing state of the art research output for GE. He has also published several research articles in various international journals. His research interests include: Financial Economics and Econometrics, Quantitative Techniques and Advanced Analytics.

In addition to his work as a practitioner Dr. Fogarty has over 10 years of teaching experience and has held various adjunct academic appointments at both the graduate and undergraduate level in statistics, international management and quantitative analysis at the University of Liverpool (UK), Trident University (USA), Manhattanville College (USA), University of New Haven (USA), SUNY Purchase College (USA), Manhattan College (USA), LIM College (USA), the University of Phoenix (USA), Chancellor University (USA), Alliant University International (USA) and the Jack Welch management Institute at Strayer University (USA). Dr. Fogarty is also an "Honorary Professor" at the Madras School of Economics in Chennai, India and has given guest lectures in Asia at East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), Ivey Business School (Hong Kong, China), and the City University of Hong Kong. He has also taught business analytics courses at the esteemed GE Crotonville Management Development Institute in Crotonville, New York. Since obtaining his PhD, he has continued to collaborate withseveral universities and leading academics to pursue academic research and has several published research papers in peer-reviewed academic journals. His research interests include: how to conduct analysis with missing data, the cultural meaning of data, integrating genetic algorithms into the statistical science framework, and many other topics related to quantitative analysis in business.