Kenneth R. Baker Picture of Ken Baker

Nathaniel Leverone Professor of Management

Address: Tuck School, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755

Phone: (603) 646-2064
Fax: (603) 646-1308
email: ken.baker@dartmouth.edu

Ken Baker is a faculty member at Dartmouth College. He is currently Nathaniel Leverone Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business and also Adjunct Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering. He teaches courses relating to mathematical modeling and operations management. He was a principal investigator on the Spreadsheet Engineering Research Project and author/co-author of two spreadsheet-based modeling textbooks, Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets (with Steve Powell) and Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets. Over the years, much of his teaching and research has dealt with operations planning and control, and he is widely known for his work on sequencing and scheduling. His latest book, entitled Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling, updates his earlier books on the subject and is co-authored with Dan Trietsch. He has served as Tuck School's Associate Dean and Associate Dean of Faculty, and he has directed the Tuck School's management development programs in the manufacturing area.  Currently, he serves as a Co-director of the Master of Engineering Management (MEM) Program at the Thayer School.

Course Syllabi

Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets

    • An Excel-based introduction to optimization
    • Required course for MEM students, and similar to an MBA elective (2008)
    • Relies on Premium Solver for Education as the main software tool

Decision Support System Design

    • Introduction to VBA and Excel-based DSS design
    • MBA elective (2008)
    • Format is lecture/lab followed by individual projects

 

Textbooks

Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets

    • Co-authored with Stephen G. Powell.
    • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
    • Second Edition. (Update Edition, compatible with Excel 2007, also available)
    • More information

Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets

Principles of Sequencing and Scheduling

    • Co-authored with Dan Trietsch.
    • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons.
    • Due in 2009.
    • More information

           

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Spreadsheet Engineering

 

Working Papers

  • Three Heuristic Procedures for the Stochastic Flow Shop Problem
    • Co-authored with Dan Trietsch
    • September, 2008

 

  • An Optimal Contact Model for Maximizing Online Panel Participation Rates
    • with Scott  Neslin, Tom Novak, and Donna Hoffman
    • November, 2008

Resume

  • A copy of Ken Baker's vita

Other links

Send email to Ken Baker