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Communicating Analytic Results: A Tutorial for Decision Consultants

Professor Noonan came to Goizueta in 1993 from the faculty of the Harvard Business School, where he earned his PhD in Decision Sciences. He also holds a BS in Engineering & Applied Science and an MBA, both from Yale University. He retired from the faculty in Sept. 2018, and was awarded emeritus status by Emory University.

He served as Goizueta's first Associate Dean for Management Practice Initiatives from 2012-2015, and as Assistant Dean and Director of MBA Programs from 1996-2000. He has been a Visiting Professor at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and he has taught short courses at Aalto University (Helsinki), Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá), ESAN (Lima), and Universidad ORT (Montevideo).

Patrick's field is "decision analysis," which draws on both the wisdom and the analytical methodologies of economics, psychology, statistics, sociology and engineering to provide prescriptions for improving decision making in business, in the professions, in health sciences, in politics and in life. 

His analytics coursework at Emory – which included decision modeling, game theory and data analysis –earned the Distinguished Educator award 13 times and “Last Lecture” speaker role six times. In 2001 he received the Adler Prize for Teaching Excellence. He has been honored by inclusion in Emory’s “Great Teacher Lecture Series” and earned the Keough Award for Excellence. In 2005 he was awarded a Fulbright grant to serve as a Senior Specialist to a university in Uruguay.

Patrick's research and teaching in the area of managerial decision making combine academic training with real-world experience as a management consultant. He learned the profession at McKinsey & Company in the 1980s, and later as a Director at Planning Technologies Group (which he co-founded in 1990 and sold to Knowledge Universe in 1998), and offers workshops in the "craft skills" of consulting and problem-solving. He also is an expert on teaching & learning, especially in the business school context, and is a frequent facilitator of workshops for B-school and engineering faculty in the techniques of case teaching and other active learning techniques. Noonan’s consulting and executive education clients have included such diverse organizations as Microsoft, Bertelsmann, NewsCorp, The New York Daily News, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merrill Lynch, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), Sea-Land, Accenture, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Economics Institute, Johns Hopkins University and Greenpeace USA.

Decision & Risk Analysis

Game Theory

Negotiation & Strategic Thinking

Data Analysis

Patrick Noonan carries memories, relationships into retirement

Nominees Named for Leadership Character Awards

Coffee With… Patrick Noonan

Professor Emeritus in the Practice of Information Systems & Operations Management

As the COVID19 epidemic fades, our attention is rightly focused on picking up the pieces from this enormous disruption. But what have we learned, and what steps can we already start to take, for the NEXT major disruption? As we reinvent our companies, communities and society, how should we anticipate and build in resilience against other threats to our systems and our way of life, whether they come from microbes, natural disaster, conflict around the world or even outer space?

Emory University’s Goizueta Business School offers a unique, community-oriented environment paired with an academic prestige and rigor shared with the international acclaim of Emory University. Goizueta trains business leaders of today and tomorrow with an Undergraduate degree program, a Master's of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA), a Two-Year Full-Time MBA, a One-Year MBA, an Evening MBA, an Executive MBA, a Doctoral degree and a portfolio of non-degree Emory Executive Education courses. The school is named for the late Roberto C. Goizueta, former Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company. For more information, visit http://goizueta.emory.edu and follow us on Twitter at @emorygoizueta.
 
Emory University is recognized internationally as an inquiry-driven, ethically engaged, and diverse community whose members work collaboratively for positive transformation in the world through courageous leadership in teaching, research, scholarship, health care, and social action. The University consists of an outstanding liberal arts college, highly ranked professional schools, and one of the larger and more comprehensive healthcare systems in the Southeast.

Risk & Resilience: Lessons for “Next Time”, featuring Patrick Noonan

Problem Solving and Teamwork in a Virtual World 3 Part Series, Making a Case Effectively Using Virtual Delivery with Goizueta Business School professors Patrick Noonan and Lynne Segall. A deep dive into how organizations can improve their problem-solving effectiveness, especially in an environment that is presenting everyone with novel problems and that increasingly depends on widely spread teams and resources.

Business Over Breakfast Webinar Series with Emory Executive Education, Patrick Noonan & Lynne Segall

Problem Solving and Teamwork in a Virtual World 3 Part Series, Collaborating Remotely to Increase Productively with Goizueta Business School professors Patrick Noonan and Lynne Segall. A deep dive into how organizations can improve their problem-solving effectiveness, especially in an environment that is presenting everyone with novel problems and that increasingly depends on widely spread teams and resources.

Decoding the Analytics of COVID Part II: Making sense of Models, Data and Predictions featuring Patrick Noonan

What goes into the epidemiological models that guide our national and state responses? What are they intended to tell us? What can we, and can’t we, conclude from models? What causes “false positives” and “false negatives,” and how can we use them to evaluate various COVID tests? What does the data tell us about progress in responding to this disease? Join Goizueta Business School Professor Patrick Noonan to dive deeper into these critical questions.

Business Over Breakfast Webinar Series with Emory Executive Education featuring Patrick Noonan

Decoding the Analytics of COVID Part I: Making sense of Models, Data and Predictions 

"What goes into the epidemiological models that guide our national and state responses? What are they intended to tell us? What can we, and can’t we, conclude from models? What causes “false positives” and “false negatives,” and how can we use them to evaluate various COVID tests? What does the data tell us about progress in responding to this disease? Join Goizueta Business School Professor Patrick Noonan to dive deeper into these critical questions.

Problem Solving and Teamwork in a Virtual World 3 Part Series, Identifying the Right Problem with Goizueta Business School professors Patrick Noonan and Lynne Segall. A deep dive into how organizations can improve their problem-solving effectiveness, especially in an environment that is presenting everyone with novel problems and that increasingly depends on widely spread teams and resources.

Business Over Breakfast Webinar Series with Emory Executive Education, Patrick Noonan &amp; Lynne Segall

Often times, analysts and managers are faced with complex business challenges with instructions to simply “figure it out.” It is not necessarily the challenge that becomes difficult to address, but more the approach and process in order to do so. To properly solve a business problem or challenge, it is important to adopt a clear process - and embrace some guiding principles from experienced consultants.

Patrick Noonan is an emeritus professor and was the first Associate Dean for Management Practice Initiatives at Goizueta Business School. His expertise in problem-solving draws from his academic training in decision analysis and his years in management consulting, starting at McKinsey & Company. He holds a PhD in Decision Sciences from Harvard, and both an MBA and a BS in Engineering & Applied Science from Yale.

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