Stefan Spinler

Professor Spinler is head of the Kühne Institute for Logistics Management at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. An international scientist specializing in data analytics and quantitative modeling, he taught at the Wharton School in Philadelphia and at Boston's MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). With his research projects, he examines the value of so-called big data for strategic decision-making and possibilities for the development of decision-making models that are used in uncertain circumstances.

Expertise

• Logistics
• Supply Chain Management
• Real Options Analysis

Awards

• Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize, European Association of Operations Research Societies (EURO), 2003
• GOR Best Dissertation Award, German Operations Research Society, 2003
• Finalist / 2nd place of the Stinnes Logistics Award, Stinnes AG, 2003
• Finalist of the Nicholson Student Paper Award, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), 2002
• Finalist of the Nicholson Student Paper Award, Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), 2001
• Second Prize of the Young Talent Competition at the 4th Service Conference of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 2001