Edwardo Rhodes

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Edwardo Lao Rhodes (born 1946) is an American management science scholar and author. An Emeritus Professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, [1] Rhodes is best known for his seminal work in data envelopment analysis, [2] as well as his applications of management science to policy analysis and environmental policy. [1]

Management science (MS) is the broad interdisciplinary study of problem solving and decision making in human organizations, with strong links to management, economics, business, engineering, management consulting, and other fields. It uses various scientific research-based principles, strategies, and analytical methods including mathematical modeling, statistics and numerical algorithms to improve an organization's ability to enact rational and accurate management decisions by arriving at optimal or near optimal solutions to complex decision problems. Management science helps businesses to achieve goals using various scientific methods.

Indiana University university system, Indiana, U.S.

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Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric method in operations research and economics for the estimation of production frontiers. It is used to empirically measure productive efficiency of decision making units (DMUs). Although DEA has a strong link to production theory in economics, the tool is also used for benchmarking in operations management, where a set of measures is selected to benchmark the performance of manufacturing and service operations. In benchmarking, the efficient DMUs, as defined by DEA, may not necessarily form a “production frontier”, but rather lead to a “best-practice frontier”. DEA is referred to as "balanced benchmarking" by Sherman and Zhu (2013).

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Academic career

Rhodes received a Bachelor of Arts at Princeton University in 1968 and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1978 [1] under the supervision of William W. Cooper. While he started his professional career at the State University of New York at Buffalo, [3] Rhodes developed most of his career as a professor of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University where he reached the status of Professor Emeritus. [1]

Princeton University University in Princeton, New Jersey

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Carnegie Mellon University private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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William Wager Cooper was an American operations researcher, known as a father of management science and as "Mr. Linear Programming". He was the founding president of The Institute of Management Sciences, founding editor-in-chief of Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, a founding faculty member of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, founding dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs at CMU, the former Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at Harvard University, and the Foster Parker Professor Emeritus of Management, Finance and Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin.

Research

Rhodes is known for the invention of data envelopment analysis in 1978, as part of his doctoral dissertation, [2] in the paper "Measuring the Efficiency of Decision Making Units" with William W. Cooper and Abraham Charnes. [4]

Abraham Charnes was an American mathematician who worked in the area of operations research. Charnes published more than 200 research articles and seven books, including An Introduction to Linear Programming. His works influenced the development of Data envelopment analysis (DEA) method.

After devoting several years to developing applications of management science to public policy and particularly to environmental policy, [5] Rhodes wrote "Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm" in 2005. In the book, Rhodes discusses new methodological approaches to environmental justice and argues that race and class are relevant categories previously ignored in analyzing environmental justice issues. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Edwardo Rhodes: : Faculty: faculty: Faculty Directory: Faculty & Research: School of Public and Environmental Affairs: Indiana University Bloomington". spea.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  2. 1 2 http://library.iugaza.edu.ps/thesis/110010.pdf
  3. ↑ Charnes, A.; Cooper, W. W.; Rhodes, E. (1981). "Evaluating Program and Managerial Efficiency: An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis to Program Follow Through". Management Science. 27 (6): 668–697. doi:10.1287/mnsc.27.6.668. JSTOR   2631155.
  4. ↑ http://www.utdallas.edu/~ryoung/phdseminar/CCR1978.pdf
  5. ↑ Rhodes, Edwardo L. (2002). "Using Data Envelopment Analysis (Dea) to Evaluate Environmental Quality and Justice: A Different Way of Looking at the Same Old Numbers". International Journal of Public Administration. 25 (2–3): 253–279. doi:10.1081/PAD-120013237.
  6. ↑ "Environmental Justice in America". iupress.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
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