Professor Profiles: Arnold Barnett, MIT Sloan School of Management
July 8, 2011 – 12:36 amGeorge Eastman Professor of Management Science Arnold “Arnie” Barnett (“Communicating with Data”) is an expert in applied mathematical modeling with a focus on problems related to health and safety, and he is widely considered the nation’s leading expert on aviation safety. According to students with whom mbaMission spoke, he is known at Sloan for being able to make statistics not just comprehensible, but fascinating and even funny. Despite what some might consider the somewhat dry nature of his subject matter, Barnett has been honored by Sloan students with teaching awards ten times, including the Teacher of the Year Award in 1995 and 2008. One second-year student we interviewed noted in particular “his humorous approach in examining the world.”
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