Analy ze T h i s !
An analytics professor/
practitioner looks at 50
“Time, time, time, see what’s become of me. While I looked around for my
possibilities, I was so hard to please.”
— “A Hazy Shade of Winter,” by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel [1]
Between my day job as a
business school analytics
teacher, an odd collection
of research projects and
various other analyticsrelated commitments, these
days I feel like I’m working
on a wider variety of
projects than ever!
By Vijay Mehrotra
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By the time that you read this, I will be 50 years old.
The Big Five Oh. Indeed, I am now officially eligible
to join the American Association of Retired Persons.
The thing is, I’m not retired. Not even close. In
fact, between my day job as a business school analytics teacher, an odd collection of research projects
and various other analytics-related commitments,
these days I feel like I’m working on a wider variety of
projects than ever!
In fact, in approaching this milestone birthday,
I have had a chance to reflect on a variety of matters personal and professional. Here, in no particular
order, are some of my thoughts upon arriving at the
half-century mark.
Update on analytics survey. In early 2013, I asked
readers of this column to complete an online survey
to support a research project that Accenture’s Jeanne
Harris and I were doing. Many of you graciously took
the time to respond affirmatively to this request, and
thus ended up taking our rather lengthy survey. Survey respondents were asked to answer questions
about a wide variety of topics including job titles, educational background, organizational structure and
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