Rick Wilson

author of Solving the Solver: A practical Introduction to the Use of Management Science in Business through Spreadsheets

February 4, 2012

Professor Wilson has been a faculty member in OSU's Spears School of Business for 22 years, presently serving as Chair of the Management Science and Information Systems Department. Dr. Wilson has published more than 100 articles in a variety of refereed journals and proceedings, many appearing in the top MIS journals. He is best known for his innovative research in college football rankings and overtime strategy.

In the classroom, Dr. Wilson is well known for his 'active learning' classroom style, and his ability to make quantitative classes approachable, applicable, and, most important, fun. He has received the 2010 Chandler-Frates and Reitz Teaching Excellence Award, the OSU outstanding MBA faculty award three times (most recently in 2009), the 2006 Grenier Graduate Teaching award, and numerous other teaching awards.

n recognition of his overall impact on the Information Systems field throughout his career, including academic leadership, teaching, support of student organizations, editing academic journals, and research and publication, Dr. Wilson was honored in 2011 as the Computer Educator of the Year by the International Association for Computer Information Systems (IACIS).

The book Solving the Solver: A Practical Introduction to the Use of Management Science in Business through Spreadsheets compliments an 'active learning' instructional approach to applying management science techniques in practice. The conversational style of the book engages the student and allows them to forget that they are using sophisticated quantitative techniques. Before they realize it, they have mastered useful, applicable quantitative topics that weeks before seemed scary and unapproachable. The book utilizes lessons learned in the author's 25 years of teaching experience in helping the student see how the practical use of quantitative models can truly help 'save the world'.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2012-honorees/rick-wilson

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