Please refer to e-mail below re DSI Boston 2011.
Dear Colleague:
I would like to invite you to submit a paper for presentation, review papers or simply
attend the upcoming DSI conference. You have attended DSI in the past few years but
may be unaware of several new initiatives that are taking place at the conference:
? A multidisciplinary emphasis on both teaching and research in the decision
sciences. In order to highlight exciting, high quality research DSI2011 will offer
o 4-5 Featured Presentations during each of 14 time slots during the conference.
Each of these featured sessions includes well-established researchers along with up and
coming researchers examining engaging and stimulating topics.
o Interactive Sessions ? designed to facilitate further development of in-process
research.
o 11 Paper/Presentation tracks, 3 Miniconferences and several Professional
Competitions, including the Elwood Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award, Instructional
Innovation Award and both a Doctoral Student and New Faculty Consortium.
? Six (6) exciting plenary talks by leading professionals and academics on from
different tracks within the Decision Sciences realm. Five (5) of the speakers have been
announced/scheduled with one more to be announced within the next 2-4 weeks.
o Dr. John Toussaint - MD and CEO Emeritus of Thedacare and lean healthcare
expert and author of On The Mend. Read more at:
http://www.createhealthcarevalue.com/about/john/, Nov 19, 4:30 PM.
o Steven D. Eppinger, General Motors LGO Professor of Management at MIT will
speak on "Gen Y & design thinking, decision making",
http://web.mit.edu/eppinger/www/SDE/Home.html, Nov 20, 8 AM - continental
breakfast included.
o Dr. Eli Goldratt - an educator, author, scientist, philosopher, and business leader.
But he is, first and foremost, a thinker who provokes others to think. He is the author of
THE GOAL an underground best seller that utilizes a non-traditional approach to convey
important business information--it is a business textbook written in novel form,
disguised as a love story, What is TOC - Eli Goldratt -
www.toc.co.uk, November 21,
2011, 12 ? 1:30, boxed lunch included.
o Dean Oliver, Director of Production Analytics, ESPN and formerly the Director of
Quantitative Analysis with the Denver Nuggets. Dean earned a PhD from the University of
North Carolina in 1994 on using statistics to make forecasts and is the author of
Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis. Mr. Oliver has been
called the ?dean of basketball statistical analysts? ? read more at:
http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2010/10/dean-oliver-on-quantitative-
analysis/., Nov 20, 8 AM - continental breakfast included.
o John D. Halamka, MD, MS is Chief Information Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center, Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical
School, Chairman of the New England Health Electronic Data Interchange Network
(NEHEN), CEO of MA-SHARE (the Regional Health Information Organization), Chair of the
US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), and a practicing
Emergency Physician. Some of you may be familiar with him as one of the leaders in the
Harvard teaching case - "Information Technology and Clinical Operations at Beth Israel
Deaconess Medical Center". Dr. Halamka is a leading Healthcare IT expert and writes his
own blog:
http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/, November 21, 12 ? 1:30 PM, boxed lunch
included.
Please consider joining me in Boston in November for DSI2011. Paper submission
deadlines are April 1, 2011 for Refereed Papers & Competitions and May 1, 2011 for
Abstracts and Proposals. More information can be obtained at:
?
http://www.decisionsciences.org/
? To volunteer as a reviewer or track chair, please go to:
http://www.decisionsciences.org/Annualmeeting/meetinginfo/volunteer.asp
? To follow DSI on Facebook and be the first to hear about new plenary speakers and
other exciting events:
o In Facebook, search for Decision Sciences Institute
o Click on Request to Join This Group.
I hope to see you in Boston in November!
Best Regards,
Ken Boyer
Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University
2011 DSI Program Chair
Kenneth K. Boyer
Dean's Distinguished Professor of Operations Management
Co-Editor, Journal of Operations Management
www.journaloperationsmanagement.org
Author, Operations and Supply Chain Management for the 21st Century
Management Sciences Department
Fisher College of Business
Ohio State University
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2100 Neil Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
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