Howard Rohm, Executive Director of the Balanced Scorecard Institute and President of the Strategy Management Group, spoke with MSA students today. A noted authority on balanced scorecard and performance management systems, Rohm has developed systems for numerous organization in both the public and private sectors in the U.S. and abroad. His lecture was part of a day long program on Strategic Performance as part of the MSA summer course.
Month: July 2007
Midsummer Outing to Durham Bulls Game
Marking the midpoint of the summer course, MSA students enjoyed an evening out to watch a Durham Bulls baseball game. Pre-game recommended reading is, of course: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis. The Bulls were made famous by Bull Durham, the 1988 Oscar-nominated movie starring Kevin Costner as “Crash Davis,” which was filmed locally around Raleigh and Durham.
Guest Speakers Welcome MSA Class of ’08
The Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2008 kicked-off the new academic year this week with a group of distinguished guest speakers who discussed the growing importance of advanced analytics in today’s world. The two-day series was organized by Dr. Herbert Kirk and Dr. Jerry Oglesby. Guests included:
- Michael J. A. Berry, cofounder of Data Miners, and noted author on several books on Data Mining with Gordon Linoff.
- Randall Collica, Senior Business Analyst at Hewlett-Packard, and author of CRM Segmentation and Clustering Using SAS Enterprise Miner.
- James Mendelsohn, Vice President for Corporate Strategy, Capital One.
- William B. Smith, Ph.D., Executive Director of the American Statistical Association.
Summer Classes Begin for Incoming Students
Two dozen students representing ten countries of origin enrolled in the Master of Science in Analytics degree program’s inaugural class today. The enrollment number represents a strong result in light of the compressed admissions cycle for this year’s class. The class is evenly split between men and women, NC residents and non-residents, and US citizens and non-citizens. The median age is 30 and the median number of years of work experience is 6. Half of the students enrolled have a prior graduate degree.
[ Students in the MSA Class of 2008 ]