Daniel Adelman

Dan Adelman is a leading expert in Business Analytics, helping companies deploy data and decision analysis to build world-class strategic and tactical management capabilities. By integrating real world data with analytical models, and bringing structure and discipline to decision and control processes, firms can achieve higher profits with lower risk, and attain competitive advantage.

Adelman's research is based on interactions with firms from a variety of industries, including internet services, chemical distribution, airlines, third party logistics, fiber-optics manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing, oil, and healthcare. Recent or current projects include work with Akamai on internet pricing, with GE Global Research Labs on the electricity smart grid, with BP on gasoline supply contract portfolio optimization, with Symantec on software release planning, and others including a project on dynamically managing customer goodwill in a B2B setting. He leads the Healthcare Analytics Laboratory at Chicago Booth, working with teams of doctoral and MBA students on a portfolio of projects with major healthcare institutions to optimize clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.