Kenneth R. Baker

Nathaniel Leverone Professor of Management, Tuck School of Business
Adjunct Professor of Engineering

Education

Mathematical modeling, optimization, and scheduling

with S.G. Powell, Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets, updated edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2009
with D. Trietsch, Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling, John Wiley & Sons, 2009
with S. Powell and B. Lawson, "Errors in Operational Spreadsheets," Journal of Organizational and End User Computing 21 (2009), 24-36
with D. Trietsch, "Safe Scheduling: Setting Due Dates in Single-Machine Problems," European Journal of Operational Research 196 (2009) 69-77
with S. Neslin, T. Novak, and D. Hoffman, "An Optimal Contact Model for Maximizing Online Panel Participation Rates," Management Science 55 (2009) 727-737
with S. Powell and B. Lawson, "A Critical Review of the Literature on Spreadsheet Errors," Decision Support Systems 46 (2008) 128–138
"Sequencing: The Shortest Processing Time Rule," Chapter 1 in Building Intuition: Insights from Basic Operations Management Models and Principles (D. Chhajed and T. Lowe, eds.) Springer, 2008
Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets, Duxbury Press, 2006