INFORMS Open Forum

  • 1.  Are you Aware of Any Courses in Ethics, Data, and Analytics?

    Posted 03-23-2016 10:15

    I am considering developing a course in the ethical use of data and analytics.  Currently, I have a lesson on this in several of my courses, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.  But, as we morph our IT Management program to include more Business Analytics, build out our Business Analytics concentration in the MBA program, and refine the new MSBA degree program, there may be a need for a course (probably 1.5-2 credits) on this topic.  While I will look around online to see what I can find, I figured I would ask the community to help me get started.  Thank you. 

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    Scott Nestler, PhD, CAP
    Associate Teaching Professor
    Mendoza College of Business
    University of Notre Dame
    Granger IN
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  • 2.  RE: Are you Aware of Any Courses in Ethics, Data, and Analytics?

    Posted 03-23-2016 12:48

    Scott,

    You may want to contact Dan Conway, CAP. He has been working on ethics and analytics.  He is the founding MBA Director and Associate Professor of Business Analytics at Loras College. More information: 

    Undergraduate Major | Loras College Center for Business Analytics

    Loras College Master of Business Administration | Loras College Center for Business Analytics

    Hope this helps.

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    Melissa Moore
    Executive Director
    INFORMS
    Catonsville MD

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  • 3.  RE: Are you Aware of Any Courses in Ethics, Data, and Analytics?

    Posted 03-24-2016 08:58

    Melissa,

    Thank you for reminding me about this.  In fact, Dan is teaching as an adjunct for Notre Dame in the M.S. in Business Analytics (MSBA) program in Chicago that Don Kleinmuntz leads.  I haven't talked with him yet but will do so.

    Scott

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    Scott Nestler
    Associate Teaching Professor
    Mendoza College of Business
    University of Notre Dame
    Granger IN

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  • 4.  RE: Are you Aware of Any Courses in Ethics, Data, and Analytics?

    Posted 03-25-2016 01:18

    Hi Scott,

    I've been looking into ethics related to OR and analytics and found a couple of things that might be of interest to you.

    1. There is a EURO Working Group on Ethics and OR - EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies - EURO Working Group on Ethics and OR; and,

    2. I found an interesting book on Ethics in Modeling.  It is from 1994, but has some good articles, include some from current and former INFORMS members.  Amazon link is: Ethics in Modeling.

    Hope this is helpful,

    Dave

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    David Hunt
    Oliver Wyman
    Princeton NJ

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  • 5.  RE: Are you Aware of Any Courses in Ethics, Data, and Analytics?

    Posted 03-25-2016 11:45

    There was also a Special Issue of the journal Omega on "Ethics in Operations Research and Management Sciences" in 2009. The reference to the editorial for the Special Issue is:

     Le Menestrel M,Van Wassenhove LN."Ethics in Operations Research and Management Sciences: A never-ending
    effort to combine rigor and passion".Omega(2009),doi: 10.1016/j.omega.2008.12.009

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    Warren Walker
    Professor
    Delft University of Technology
    Den Haag

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  • 6.  RE: Are you Aware of Any Courses in Ethics, Data, and Analytics?

    Posted 03-25-2016 16:11

    For those of you interested in this topic,

    The INFORMS Forum on Education (INFORM-ED) is planning a session at the November Annual Meeting on Teaching Ethics in OR.  In addition to attending the session, I encourage those of you who teach courses in this area to contact the session chair, Mike Racer (mracer@memphis.edu), who is looking for speakers, directly.  I've pasted the call for speakers for that session below:

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    Dear INFORM-ED Members,

    I received many suggestions for interesting sessions in our INFORM-ED cluster for this year's Annual Meeting in Nashville -- it appears we will have ten sessions in our cluster this year!  Several of the session chairs asked that I distribute a call for speakers specifically for their sessions.  The information for these sessions is below.  Please contact the session chair directly if you have a presentation that you feel would be a good fit for one of these sessions:

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    5. Teaching Ethics in OR (Chair: Mike Racer, mracer@memphis.edu)

    How do you teach students about the ethical impacts of their work in OR/MS?  What are some ethical guidelines we should be teaching students?  In what contexts have ethical concerns arisen in your classroom?

    Best regards,

    Susan Martonosi (INFORM-ED cluster chair)

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    Susan Martonosi
    Associate Professor
    Harvey Mudd College
    Claremont CA

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