MBA Fundamentals: Statistics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515252498)

Paul W. Thurman, a Columbia MBA valedictorian, service award winner, and multiple teaching-award recipient, has extensive management consulting and line management experience helping a variety of start-ups and Fortune 500 companies realize value from innovative and coordinated business, operations, and technology strategies. Paul currently teaches strategic management and data analysis courses as a member of the full-time faculty at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In addition to his full-time faculty appointments, Paul serves as a clinical professor and affiliated researcher at the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research at the National Institutes of Health and at other leading business schools around the world. An author of several textbooks and editor of multiple research compendia, Paul has also written several peer-reviewed papers focused on prescription drug pricing, government research funding for healthcare, hospital administration curricula in developing nations, and advanced statistical analyses. Paul received his BS in mathematics from Stanford University and his MBA from Columbia University (with highest honors). He completed coursework for his Doctor of Public Health (DrPH, ABD) at the State University of New York in Brooklyn. He is currently completing his Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) at Ecole des Ponts Business School in Paris, France. Paul can be reached at Paul.Thurman@Columbia.edu.