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 and risk analysis (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 has been teaching MBA classes for more than ten years. He currently teaches pre-term quantitative skills and second-year
decision consulting practice at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College,
pre-term quantitative skills at Johnson Graduate School of Management at
Cornell University, and decision science 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 fifteen years behind him and considerable
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 ten years of live math camp teaching, Dr. Regan designed and refines 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.
