Howard S. Gitlow

Howard S. Gitlow is a professor of management science at the Miami Herbert Business School. He was a visiting professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University from 2007 to 2014 and at the Science University of Tokyo in 1990, where he studied with Dr. Noriaki Kano. He received his PhD in statistics (1974), MBA (1972), and BS in statistics (1969) from New York University. His areas of specialization are Lean Six Sigma Management, Deming’s theory of management, Japanese Total Quality Control, and statistical quality control. Gitlow has consulted and co-taught courses with W. Edwards Deming and Noriaki Kano (Science University of Tokyo).

Gitlow is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, a Fellow of the American Society for Quality, and a member of the American Statistical Association. He has served on the editorial boards of four journals. His list of consulting clients includes universities, consulting firms, city governments, health care organizations, insurance companies, utilities, manufacturing organizations, and service organizations. Gitlow has testified in dozens of legal cases involving the following issues: critiquing and developing sampling plans, discrimination (age, race, gender, country of origin, and ethnicity), anti-trust, game fixing, jury selection, and cost/benefit analysis.