1. What Should be Taught in a Prescriptive Analytics Course?
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Jeffrey D. Camm Associate Dean and Inmar Presidential Chair in Analytics

2. Timeline
Task Force Formed: August 2015
Program Launch: July 2016

3. MSBA Class of 2017 37 Graduates 66% Employed at Graduation
Employers
Advance Auto Parts
Aon
Bank of America
Business Impact
Cascade Data Labs
Credit Health Services
Disney
EW Scripps EY
Fifth Third Bank
Global Lending Services
Grant Thornton
Hanesbrands
Inmar
Ketchum
Merkle
NaviHealth
North Highlands Consulting
PepsiCo
Red Hat
Spectrum
Uber
UTC Aerospace Systems
Vivisum
Wells Fargo
MSBA Class of 2017
37 Graduates
66% Employed at Graduation
97% Employed 90 days out

4. Wake Forest MSBA Curriculum
Prescriptive Analytics

5. Prescriptive Analytics
Introduction to Optimization
Linear Programming
Sensitivity Analysis
Integer Programming
Nonlinear Programming
Robust Optimization
Solver, Open Solver, AMPL
Introduction to Optimization
Linear Programming
Sensitivity Analysis
Integer Programming
Nonlinear Programming
Simulation Optimization
Solver, Open Solver, AMPL, CB

6. MSBA Advisory Board

7. What is prescriptive analytics?
“It is certainly not what is in your book!”

8. What is prescriptive analytics?
“It is the deployment of predictive analytics!”
Logistic Regression

9. Prescriptive Analytics as the Deployment of a Descriptive Model

10. Prescriptive Analytics
The scientific process of transforming data into insights, where the process yields a course of action.

11. Prescriptive Analytics
Introduction to Optimization
Rule-Based Systems
Decision Analysis
Linear Programming
Sensitivity Analysis
Integer Programming
Nonlinear Programming
Heuristics
Simulation Optimization
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Cognitive Computing
Solver, Open Solver, AMPL, Crystal Ball, Watson

12. Your Thoughts?