Dr. Peter Regan - Background
Peter Regan's professional focus is helping MBA students to develop the
quantitative skills they need to achieve their academic and professional potential.
He has an academic background in
decision making under uncertainty (MS and PhD, Stanford Engineering) and
professional experience in
management consulting, software development,
and entrepreneurship.
His published works address MBA teaching, decision making, and
decision technology.
Dr. Regan founded his own consulting and technology firm in 1995, working collaboratively with
strategy consultants and global life sciences
companies. He began teaching at
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1998. In 2000 he started
teaching a 35-hour one-week on-campus quantitative skills course at Tuck that is offered the week before
first-year orientation. He continues to teach both courses at Tuck. Starting in 2007-2008, he also teaches a three-day
pre-term on-campus quantitative skills course at Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell
University and a second-year decision consulting practice course at Fuqua School of Business at
Duke University.
Having himself made a transition from a non-quantitative field to a graduate program
with a quantitative core curriculum, he appreciates the challenges that many first-year MBA
students face. Furthermore, with graduate school over thirteen years behind him and ten years'
experience running his own business,
he fully understands that
career success depends on so much more than quantitative
ability.
The challenge then is to come up to speed on the quantitative mechanics so that you
do not allow remedial quantitative work during your first year
to bog you down. Having a firm quantitative
foundation allows you to
absorb as much as possible of the softer side of the first-year
MBA experience.
Based on eight years of live math camp teaching, Dr. Regan designed the MBA Math online
course to
help students get their math and spreadsheet skills in good shape,
focusing on skills of greatest relevance to the MBA first-year core curriculum.
An
online course allows students to help themselves at their own pace and
according to their needs and learning styles.
He focuses on the basics, making
efficient use of students' time. With the
greater confidence of a firmer quantitative foundation, students
should be in a better position to take on the
formidable challenges of the first-year MBA quantitative core.
