Samuel Bodily

Education:

• B.S., Brigham Young University;
• SM, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Tyler Professor Emeritus of Business Administration Samuel E. Bodily researches decision and risk analysis, strategy modeling and analysis, forecasting and lifetime consumption, and investment planning. He has written several books, a wide variety of journal articles in publications ranging from Operations Research to the Harvard Business Review and more than 120 cases and technical notes on quantitative analytics.

Bodily's publication "Reducing Risks and Improving Incentives in Funding Entrepreneurs" received the 2016 Decision Analysis Special Recognition Award, recognizing the best paper in Decision Analysis that year. He was noted for both first and second place in the INFORMS case competition in 2011 and has received Wachovia awards for case writing in 2010, 2005 and 2001, as well as a Wachovia award for a research article in 1994-95.

In addition to teaching strategy and decision analysis in Darden's MBA and Executive Education programs, Bodily is a consultant to many corporations, utilities and government agencies. Previously, he taught at Boston University and the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been a visiting professor at INSEAD Singapore, Stanford University and the University of Washington.

ACADEMIC AREA

• Quantitative Analysis

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Decision Analysis, Risk Analysis, Strategy Modeling, Lifetime Consumption and Investment Planning, Energy and Electric Utility Industries, Forecasting Methods, Probability and Statistics