Wayne L. Winston

Education

Winston has a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(1971) and a PhD in Operations Research from Yale University (1975).

Career

Winston has worked for corporations including Microsoft, Cisco, 3M and Deloitte, the Dallas Mavericks, the Department of Defense and the US Army.

Winston is Professor Emeritus of Decision and Information Systems at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a visiting professor at the University of Houston.

Winston has written a number of books including Marketing Analytics: Data-Driven Techniques with Microsoft Excel, Business Analytics: Data Analysis & Decision Making with S. Christian Albright, and Microsoft Excel 2016 Data Analysis and Business Modeling, Fifth Edition

Winston has also written several papers, including "Optimal Price Skimming by a Monopolist Facing Rational Consumers" published on Management Science, and "Optimality of the shortest line discipline" published by Cambridge University Press.

Awards and honors

• Lilly Award for Teaching Excellence, 1991, 1992, 1995, 2004
  
• Two-time “Jeopardy” winner, 1992
  

Selected publications

• Operations research: applications and algorithms, PWS-Kent Pub. Co. (1991)
  
• S. Christian Albright, Wayne L. Winston, Christopher James Zappe, Managerial Statistics, Duxbury, (2000)
  
• Financial Models Using Simulation and Optimization: A Step-by-step Guide with Excel and Palisade's DecisionTools Software, Volume 1, Palisade Corporation (2000)
  
• Mathletics: How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football, Princeton University Press (2012)
• S. Christian Albright, Wayne L. Winston: Business Analytics: Data Analysis & Decision Making, Cengage Learning (2014)
• Marketing Analytics: Data-Driven Techniques with Microsoft Excel (2014)
• Microsoft Excel 2016 Data Analysis and Business Modeling, Fifth Edition, Microsoft Press (2016)