Bob Clemen

Professor Emeritus at Duke University; Decision and Risk Analysis Consulting

Durham, North Carolina, United States

About

As Professor Emeritus of Decision Sciences at Duke University, Bob Clemen teaches "Spreadsheet Modeling and Decision Analysis" once a year at Duke's new campus in China. With his "quasi-retirement" from Duke, he is available to provide decision analysis consulting services. He authored the widely used text Making Hard Decisions, now in its third edition, and has published over fifty scholarly articles on topics such as the use of decision analysis for organizational decision making, the psychology of judgment, assessing expert probabilities, the effectiveness of decision-making techniques, and using decision analysis to help organizations become environmentally sustainable. Professor Clemen’s consulting engagements include work for corporations, utilities, and government agencies, and have covered such diverse areas as salmon farming, offshore oil leasing, avalanche prediction, nuclear waste storage, electric power demand forecasting, and environmental policy. See my home page at http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~clemen/bio/.

Experience

  • Duke University (31 yrs 6 mos)
    • Professor Emeritus
      2011 - Present · 15 yrs 6 mos

    • Associate and Full Professor
      1995 - 2011 · 16 yrs

  • Assistant and Associate Professor at University of Oregon
    1984 - 1995 · 11 yrs