Nicholas Hall

Background

Nicholas G. Hall is a professor in the departments of Management Sciences and Integrated Systems Engineering. He came to Ohio State in 1983 from the University of CaliforniaBerkeley. His research interests are in tactical issues within operations management, especially project management, scheduling, supply chain incentives and pricing, and in applications of operations research. He has published over 70 articles in the journals Operations Research,Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Interfaces and several other journals.

Hall has served for a total of over 40 years on the editorial boards of Operations Research and Management Science. He has given over 300 academic presentations, including 89 invited presentations in 20 countries, and seven conference keynote presentations. A 2008 citation study ranked him 13^th among 1,376 scholars in the operations management field. He won the Fisher Pacesetters’ Faculty Research Award in 1998 and 2005. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences of the Peoples’ Republic of China.

Hall has served as president of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management society, and is currently treasurer of INFORMS. He served for five years on the State of Ohio Steel Industry Advisory Council. He has been a visiting professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hall teaches project management, one of the most popular MBA electives at Fisher, a modeling course, and several advanced PhDlevel courses. He is the owner of a consulting business, CDOR, which provides business solutions to Ohio business and government communities, as well as advice on intellectual property issues for New York City law firms.

Awards

Top Cited Article Award, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 200510 Meritorious Service Award, Operations Research journal, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2009 Pace Setters Research Award, 1998, 2005   Outstanding Evening MBA Program Teaching Award, 2nd place: 199597

Areas of Expertise

Project management Scheduling Tactical control decisions in manufacturing Supply chain incentives Energy modeling Pricing Applications of operations research to health care Applications of operations research to sports

Education

PhD in Management Science, University of California, Berkeley MA in Economics, University of Cambridge BA in Economics, University of Cambridge

Courses

BUSMGT 7221 Introduction to Decision Making

With the help of industry guest speakers, this course demonstrates how decision modeling improves the efficiency of a wide range of business applications and surveys deterministic modeling approaches. These include linear and integer optimization, heuristic problem solving, and discrete choices using the analytic hierarchy process. Prereq: MBA 6271. Not open to students with credit for 871.

BUSMGT 7223 Project Management

Introduces challenges senior managers face in companies that run multiple projects with a focus on overall project portfolio management, project selection, resource allocation between projects & organizational team design. Students identify their strengths & weaknesses in projects with a creative problemsolving exercise & experience reallife applications with visits from local project managers. Prereq: Enrollment in Fisher College of Business Grad program, or permission of instructor. Repeatable to a maximum of 3 cr hrs.