Samuel E. Bodily

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Samuel E. Bodily is the John Tyler Professor of Business Administration at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. He has Ph.D. and S.M. degrees from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.S. in Physics from Brigham Young University. He teaches strategy and decision analysis in Darden’s MBA and Executive Education programs. Professor Bodily’s area of research is decision and risk analysis, strategy modeling and analysis, forecasting and lifetime consumption and investment planning. [1]

University of Virginia University in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

The University of Virginia is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. The flagship university of Virginia, it is also a World Heritage site of the United States. It was founded in 1819 by Declaration of Independence author and former President Thomas Jefferson. UVA is known for its historic foundations, student-run honor code, and secret societies.

MIT Sloan School of Management business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, as well as executive education. Its MBA program is among the most selective in the world. MIT Sloan emphasizes innovation in practice and research. Many influential ideas in management and finance originated at the school, including the Black–Scholes model, the Solow–Swan model, the random walk hypothesis, the binomial options pricing model, and the field of system dynamics. The faculty has included numerous Nobel laureates in economics and John Bates Clark Medal winners.

Brigham Young University private research university located in Provo, Utah, United States

Brigham Young University is a private, non-profit research university in Provo, Utah, United States completely owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and run under the auspices of its Church Educational System. Approximately 99 percent of the students are members of the LDS Church and one-third of its U.S. students are from Utah. The university's primary focus is on undergraduate education, but it also has 68 master's and 25 doctoral degree programs.

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Professor Bodily is the author of several books, a wide variety of scholarly articles in journals such as “Operations Research”, “Management Science”, the “Harvard Business Review” and well over 120 cases (including a couple of the 10 best-selling cases at Darden) and technical notes on quantitative analytics. Professor Bodily was granted the Distinguished Casewriter Wachovia award from Darden in 2005. [2]

Professor Bodily has been a consultant to numerous corporations, utilities and government agencies, including: IBM, United Technologies Corporation, Tennessee Valley Authority, and OGE Energy Corporation. Prior to joining the Darden faculty in 1977, he taught at Boston University and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has been a visiting professor at INSEAD Singapore, Stanford and the University of Washington. [1]

IBM American multinational technology and consulting corporation

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Tennessee Valley Authority company

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. The enterprise was a result of the efforts of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. TVA was envisioned not only as a provider, but also as a regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and electricity to more quickly modernize the region's economy and society.

Boston University private research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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