Krannert team places second in machine learning hackathon
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
A team of Krannert master's students in the Business Analytics and Information Management program placed second in November’s Last Mile Hackers Machine Learning Challenge Hackathon sponsored by Tredence, a data science and AI engineering company focused on solving the last mile problem in analytics.
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Krannert master’s students take top honors in STAMINA/IT Analytics case competition
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
A team of four Krannert master’s students in the school’s MS in Business Analytics and Information Management program took home the top prize in September’s STAMINA/IT Analytics case competition, a campus-wide event host by the Krannert Communication Center. Calling themselves the “Boilerminers,” the team was composed of Alejandro Brillembourg Cuenca, Michael Jonelis, Piper Doyle and Ryan Egbert. They bested 18 advancing teams of four in a case for DRONEDEK, a pre-revenue startup company based in Indianapolis that Daniel O’Toole founded and organized in 2020 based on patent information approved in 2017.
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Local businesses lean on subscriptions to build revenue, customer connections
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
A growing number of local businesses are latching onto an age-old retail concept: the monthly subscription service. The idea of having customers periodically pay in advance for products or services is nothing new. Newspapers and magazines have operated on this model for centuries, and beer-, coffee-, fruit- and cigar-of-the-month clubs have existed for decades. But in the last decade or so, national companies have launched subscriptions for everything from cosmetics to meal kits to pet products. Mohammad Rahman, an associate professor of management at Purdue's Krannert School of Management, comments on the trend.
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Purdue team takes home top honors in ECS Hackathon
Thursday, August 12, 2021
A team of Purdue graduate students recently took home first place in the 2021 ECS Hackathon on "The Future of Work." The winning team was comprised of Anisha Desai, Snigdha Rai, Mayank Jha, Kshama Sharma, Usama Ather, Prerak Patel, and Sakshee Agarwal.
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Meet The Masters Of Business Analytics
Friday, March 19, 2021
The key to business innovation? Think sound decision-making through the understanding of data. That’s what business analytics delivers — a means to collect, segment, interpret and act on data. The industry is exploding, producing master’s of business analytics grads globally who are using analytics to push the needle in industries such as finance, technology, consulting, retail, and entrepreneurship. For some, personal fulfillment is their greatest accomplishment following graduation. Krannert MSBAIM Alumnus Maharshi Dutta shares his thoughts on the field of business analytics.
Master’s in Business Analytics: Maharshi Dutta, Purdue University (Krannert)
Friday, March 19, 2021
Krannert's MSBAIM Alumnus Maharshi Dutta shares his story with Poets and Quants on why he chose Krannert for his graduate school, how his experience was at Krannert, and his accomplishments in his career after graduation.
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Longtime MIS scholar and endowed faculty member Prabuddha De to retire
Thursday, July 30, 2020
Prabuddha De, the Accenture University Professor of Information Technology at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management and a seminal scholar in his field, is retiring in August 2020.
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Bob Plante retiring following four decades at the Krannert School
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Bob Plante, the Lewis B. Cullman University Chair of Management at Purdue’s Krannert School, is retiring following a 40-year career that includes numerous administrative and academic roles in addition to research and teaching accolades.
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Purdue launches online analytics degree
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Purdue University’s Krannert School of Management will begin offering an online Master’s in Business Analytics in fall 2020. The degree is aimed at working professionals. Students will receive broad exposure to various functional areas of business and how they use information to make better-informed decisions. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates the need for business analysts to increase 14% by 2024, and this degree will prepare participants for a wide variety of roles within the industry.