Business Analytics Center News

MBA and MSA students team up with thyssenkrupp Elevator and the GT Athletic Association for virtual fall business analytics showcase

Georgia Tech Scheller Professor Qiuping Yu publishes research on virtual queues, showing when providing wait time estimates, it pays to under-promise and over-deliver.

Students and Business Analytics Executive Council members enjoyed an interactive panel discussion sponsored by the Business Analytics Club.

U.S. News & World Report ranks Scheller’s undergraduate and graduate business analytics programs No. 1 among public universities and No. 3 overall in the nation. Here are three reasons why.

Virtual alumni panel helps current students navigate the job search journey.

King & Spalding, an international law firm founded in Atlanta, announced today that it is joining the Executive Council of the Business Analytics Center (BAC) at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. They join other global industry leaders including The Coca-Cola Company, The Home Depot, AT&T, NCR, UPS, and thyssenkrupp Elevator.

Another global leader is joining the Executive Council. Beginning in September 2020, International law firm King & Spalding will be a part of the Executive Council of Georgia Tech's Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business.

In its first-ever ranking of undergraduate Business Analytics programs, U.S. News & World Report ranked Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business undergraduate Business Analytics program #3 for Business Analytics (all universities) and #1 for Business Analytics (public universities) in the U.S.

thyssenkrupp Elevator, a leading global player in the elevators and escalators market is joining the Executive Council of Georgia Tech’s Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business.

Four teams of graduate students presented their analytic insights at the virtual Business Analytics Spring Showcase.

When the campus shutdown threatens to cancel their previously scheduled workshops, Business Analytics Club leaders pivot and present the workshops virtually.

In its first-ever ranking of MBA Business Analytics programs U.S. News & World Report ranked Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business MBA Business Analytics program #1 MBA for Business Analytics (public university) and #3 MBA for Business Analytics (all universities) in the U.S..

The Business Analytics Club recently sponsored a breakfast panel with Anthem.

The Business Analytics Center recently helped sponsor the second-annual Georgia Tech Sports Innovation Challenge, a 24-hour hackathon.

Scheller College of Business’ Undergraduate Program has been named #14 Best Undergraduate Business Program in the U.S. and #5 Best Undergraduate Business Program at a public university in the U.S. by Poets and Quants in their just-released 2020 rankings for undergraduate programs.

Student teams presented their semester-long business analytics practicum project at the Fall Business Analytics Showcase.

The Business Analytics Club recently hosted an alumni panel, providing a real-world glimpse of what it's like to work in analytics.

Fourteen of the nation's leaders in business analytics attended the BAC Career Fair and Analytics Expo, hoping to attract Tech's top talent.

The Business Analytics Center recently teamed up with The Coca Cola Company to present "AI for Good: How One Concern is Using AI to Improve Disaster Preparation & Response.

As part of Scheller’s Countdown to Commencement series, we interviewed a few soon-to-be graduates from our undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. programs to learn about their backgrounds, why they chose Scheller College, and what they plan to do after Spring 2019 Commencement.

Excited to announce the winners of the 2019 Business Analytics Showcase Competition

Countdown to Commencement As part of Scheller’s Countdown to Commencement series, we interviewed a few soon-to-be graduates from our undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. programs to learn about their backgrounds, why they chose Scheller College, and what they plan to do after Spring 2019 Commencement.

A stellar turnout for the Introduction to Tableau Workshop as MBAs, MSAs, Alumni, Faculty and Staff joined the interactive training on April 5th at Scheller.

Applicants for the 2019 Ideas to Serve (I2S) competition are exploring and addressing a number of issues both locally and globally from plastic waste reduction, disaster response in low-income communities, food security, global health, prison reform, education, and more!

Exciting news for the Business Analytics Center: UPS has joined our Executive Council!

Michael (Mike) Duke, retired president and chief executive officer, of Walmart discusses leadership with Dean Alavi

BAC Director Keith Werle helps judge the Punt Analytics Competition as part of the NFL 1st and Future Experience.

Hosted by Georgia Tech and sponsored by the NFL and Arrow Electronics (NYSE-ARW), 1st and Future (http://www.nfl.com/1standfuture) is the NFL’s Annual Super Bowl Competition designed to spur innovation in player health, safety and performance.

Executives from Winner Technologies Co, Inc., a Shanghai China-based high-tech company focusing on consumer data collection and behavioral analysis visited the Business Analytics Center (BAC) at Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. During the visit, the BAC and Winner Technologies signed a Memorandum of Understanding.

The Business Analytics Center (BAC) at Scheller College of Business recently held a Career & Internship Expo at Georgia Tech’s Student Success Center.

More than 200 joined the Business Analytics Center (BAC) at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business for our annual business analytics forum. Held at the Historic Academy of Medicine on Friday, August 17, this year’s event, titled “The Challenges for Business Analytics in an Omni Channel World,” addressed meeting consumer needs in a market characterized by both constant change and multiple platforms, formats and messages.

The INFORMS press release discussed the key findings of Dr. Hu’s new research study, titled “The Impact of E-book Distribution on Print Sales: Analysis of a Natural Experiment” and recently published by INFORMS flagship journal Management Science.

CapTech, an IT management consulting company, is pleased to announce its partnership with Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech Business Analytics Center. As part of its partnership, CapTech is joining other local companies as Executive Council members, in supporting programs that benefit students, industry, and the analytics community.

More than 70 people gathered at the Scheller College of Business on April 4th for the Women in Technology and Analytics Panel. The all-star panel was hosted by the Georgia Tech Business Analytics Club and the Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business. The event attracted groups from an array of Atlanta Universities, as well as representatives from Chick-fil-A, Southern Company and NCR.

Earning first place and the $10,000 grand prize was Team Blue Ocean 12 with team captain German Schnaidt-Grez (PhD Cand. IE 2019), and Nermit Chetwani (MS Analytics 2018).

Business Analytics Forum 2017: Learning from Industry Experiences

The Business Analytics Center recently held the Master Modeler Competition, open to all analytics-interested students across Georgia Tech. A great deal of support was provided for this competition by the business analytics community.

The Business Analytics Center recently held the Business Analytics Think Tank Roundtable dinner event, presented by <hackd/>

The Business Analytics Center at Azul Motorsports

Business Analytics Think Tank Roundtable - Use and Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Analytics

Innovations in Healthcare Analytics: what we learned from the experts

The Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business will host the Georgia Tech Data Science Student Challenge by Microsoft in collaboration with Master of Science Analytics, Stewart School of Industrial Systems Engineering, School of Interactive Computing, and School of Computational Science and Engineering.

Georgia Institute of Technology students took first place at the Krannert-Walmart Data Dive held at the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Indiana on April 2-3.

The Business Analytics Center recently held the Master Modeler Competition, open to all analytics-interested students across Georgia Tech. A great deal of support was provided for this competition by the business analytics community.

The Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech, recently moderated "Marketing Analytics" Panel Discussion for UPS's Marketing Leadership Conference.

On March 25, the President and CEO of AT&T Mobility and Consumer Operations, Glenn Lurie, led an intriguing discussion at the Business Analytics Forum 2016

The Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech, recently hosted "Improving Your Analytics Influence" Panel Discussion.

The rise of analytics is a game-changer in any industry, but when business leaders fail to focus on data usage, their organization will suffer.

The Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech, recently hosted Analytics Day of Learning: Cognitive Solutions.

The Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech, recently hosted Tableau Zen Master, Mark Jackson, Director of Business Intelligence at Piedmont Healthcare.

The Business Analytics Center at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech seeks to develop and foster strong partnerships in the ever-evolving and still relatively small community of business analytics, particularly in the region. We have the extreme fortune of having such incredible collaborative companies and non-profit organizations that work with the Business Analytics Center to speak in our classes, recruit our students, collaborate on projects, among other opportunities.

Nearly 300 industry leaders and analytics experts converged at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business on March 20 for the 2015 Business Analytics and Big Data Forum.

Based on discussions and feedback from industry leaders, students, and an assessment of future trends, Scheller College’s renowned faculty recently formalized four new interdisciplinary concentrations of MBA study: Business Analytics, Managing Innovation and Technology, Quantitative Finance, and Strategic Sustainability.

Twenty-eight top executives from China Mobile, the leading mobile services, provider in mainland China, traveled to Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business for the custom program “IT Transformation and Innovation in the Digital Age.”

When Yu Jeffrey Hu began his first academic post at Purdue University in 2005, he and his wife couldn’t find all the furniture they wanted in the college town of West Lafayette, Indiana. So the couple furnished almost their entire apartment through online shopping.

Georgia Tech is now offering a one-year Master of Science in Analytics to meet the growing demand for savvy professionals who can transform data into relevant insights for making better business decisions.