Wayne Winston, Ph.D.

Wayne Winston, Ph.D., is a leading expert in business analytics, operations research, and quantitative decision-making, with decades of experience applying advanced analytics to real-world business problems. He earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Yale and his mathematics degree from MIT. His work has been highly applied throughout his career, including analytics consulting for organizations such as Microsoft and Copilot, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Cisco, Deloitte, PwC, Ford, General Motors, the U.S. Department of Defense, and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies and professional sports organizations.

Winston’s professional and academic work focuses on using data, statistics, mathematical modeling, and optimization to solve complex business problems. He has published extensively across operations research, analytics, probability, pricing, and decision science and has authored more than 20 books, including widely used works on Excel-based data analysis, business modeling, financial modeling, marketing analytics, and management science. He has also developed analytics and modeling courses for Harvard Business School, Microsoft, and other organizations.