Business Mathematics For MBAs

Richard Waterman holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from Penn State University. He is a Practice

Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School and has been teaching there since 1993. He regularly taught the MBA Math "Bootcamp" class and teaches extensively in both the Executive and Regular MBA programs. Richard has regularly received teaching awards including the Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Award that is voted on by the MBA student body and presented to the Professor who has exemplied outstanding teaching quality during the previous year.

He has published work in research journals including Statistical Science, Biometrika and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society on statistical modeling methodologies. He is also the co-author of two case-books: Basic Business

Statistics and Business Analysis Using Regression published by Springer-Verlag.

In addition to teaching at Wharton, he runs a quantitative business consulting company and has consulted widely with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. He currently focuses most of his consulting activity on quantitative issues related to legal matters and, in particular, to Intellectual Property and Copyright.