Peter Regan

Peter Regan's professional focus is helping MBA students to develop the quantitative skills they need to achieve their academic and professional goals.

He has taught MBA classes for more than ten years. He currently teaches pre-term quantitative skills and elective Professional Decision Modeling at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and pre-term quantitative skills at Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He has taught Models for Strategic Planning at INSEAD in France and core Decision Models in London and Shanghai for the Cross-Continent (now Global) Executive MBA program of Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

He studied decision and risk analysis (MS and PhD, Stanford University) and worked in management consulting, software development, and entrepreneurship. His published works address MBA teaching, decision making, and decision technology. Dr. Regan previously founded a consulting and technology firm, working collaboratively with strategy consultants and global life sciences companies.

Areas of Expertise

• Management science

Current Research Topics

• Online learning
• Pharmaceutical research and development portfolio management
• Decision management software
• Online analytical applications

Education

• Ph.D. Stanford University (1987 — 1993)
• M.S. Stanford University (1986 — 1987)
• B.A. Dartmouth College (1981 — 1985)

Selected Publications

• "Dynamic Risk Management Systems: Hybrid Architecture of Offshore Platform Illustration," Risk Analysis, 18(4), 1998
• "Project Evaluation in Drug Development: A Case Study in Collaboration," in The Practice of Bayesian Analysis, Arnold Publishers, 1997
• "Normative Engineering Risk Management Systems," Reliability Engineering and Systems Safety, 57, 1997
• "Activity Graphs: A Language for Flexible Consultation Systems," Annals of Operations Research, 65, 1996
• "R&D Decision Advisor: An Interactive Approach to Normative Decision System Model Construction," European Journal of Operational Research, 84, 1995