Kathryn Caggiano received a B.S. in Mathematics from the College of William and Mary in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University in 1998. Prior to returning to Cornell in 2007, Professor Caggiano was an Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management in the School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Outside of academia, she worked for several years in technology and supply chain consulting with Price Waterhouse and PeopleSoft Supply Chain Solutions. In her current role as Director of Master of Engineering Studies, Professor Caggiano is actively involved in the professional preparation and development of ORIE students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Under her leadership, the ORIE MEng program was selected as a finalist for the 2012 UPS George D. Smith Prize, INFORMS’s flagship award for the outstanding practical preparation of OR students.
Cornell’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program is designed from the ground up to uniquely prepare working professionals seeking to build a career in analytics with the skills employers desire most: a comprehensive understanding of the language and concepts of business, strong communication and teamwork skills, and the ability to apply the tools of data science to real problems and real data. By earning a STEM.org-certified MSBA from Cornell, you will acquire a powerful blend of business knowledge, rigorous analytics training, and creative problem-solving abilities.
CORE COURSES:
- Business and Communications
- Microeconomics
- Introduction to Finance Analytics
- Introduction to Accounting Analytics
- Introduction to Operations Analytics
- Introduction to Marketing Analytics
- Management Presentations with Data
- Conversations in Business Analytics
- Analytics
- Probability, Statistics, and Inference
- Business Data Management in SQL
- Statistical Programming in Python
- Machine Learning Applications in Business
- Data Visualization – Tools, Practice and Application
ELECTIVE COURSES:
- Customer Analytics
- Analytics for Demand Management
- Designing Data Products
- Digital Business and Retail Operations
- Supply Chain Analytics
- NLP in Finance
- Managerial Reporting for Business
- Consumer Behavior
- Advanced Spreadsheet Modeling
- June 9–15, 2025 Ithaca Residency Week
- August 3-9, 2026* New York City Residency Week
How It Works
FACULTY

Dr. Li Chen is a Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management and Breazzano Family Term Professor of Management at Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Dr. Chen’s research interests concern supply chain management, operations strategy, and Bayesian methods for predictive and prescriptive analytics. He has published research works in top journals in the operations management field, such as Management Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing, Service and Operations Management. Prior to joining Johnson School, Dr. Chen was an Associate Professor of Business Administration at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Before his Duke appointment, Dr. Chen spent four years at TrueDemand Software, a supply chain software company in Silicon Valley, where he was the cofounder and lead scientist of the company. Dr. Chen obtained his PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2005.
Allan Filipowicz is clinical professor of management and organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Professor Filipowicz’s research focuses on how emotions drive or impede leadership effectiveness, at both the intrapersonal and interpersonal levels. Within this domain, he studies the relationship between emotions and risky decision making; the influence of humor on both leadership and negotiation effectiveness; the impact of emotional transitions in negotiations; and the relationship between genes, chronotype (morningness–eveningness) and performance. His work has been published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Forecasting, Creativity Research Journal, Journal of Circadian Rhythms, and Scientific Reports.
Professor Filipowicz teaches Managing and Leading Organizations (recently winning a Best Core Faculty Award), Negotiations, Executive Leadership and Development, Leading Teams, and Critical and Strategic Thinking. He has taught executives across the globe, from Singapore to Europe to the US, with recent clients including Medtronic, Bayer, Google, Pernod Ricard, and Harley-Davidson. Professor Filipowicz received his PhD from Harvard University. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Affairs from the University of Pennsylvania, and degrees in electrical engineering (MEng, BS) and economics (BA) from Cornell University. His professional experience includes banking (Bankers Trust, New York) and consulting, including running his own boutique consulting firm and four years with The Boston Consulting Group in Paris.
Lutz Finger is an esteemed technologist with a diverse background in building innovative technology platforms for companies including Google, LinkedIn, and Snap Inc.. He is the founder of R2Decide, a platform for generative AI tools.
Finger is a regular contributor to Forbes, where he writes about AI and deep learning. His book Ask, Measure, Learn was published in 2014 and serves as a non-technical guide on how to extract significant business value from big data. Finger serves as an advisor, venture partner, and angel investor at several data-centric corporations in Europe and the United States. He has an MBA from INSEAD and an M.S. in quantum physics from TU Berlin.
Finger, who resides in the San Francisco Bay area, aims to bring over 20 years of diversified experience in data science and product management to his students at Cornell.
Vishal Gaur is the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean and Emerson Professor of Manufacturing Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management in the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. Gaur earned his PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (2001), MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (1995), and BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (1993).
As associate dean for MBA programs from 2014 to 2019, Gaur launched the Digital Technology Immersion, in which MBA candidates and students earning their MPS in data science or applied statistics develop skills in coding, databases, and advanced analytics, and learn to leverage them to tackle challenges faced by leading companies.
He also created and served as the program director for the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program offered through eCornell, which provides working professionals a hands-on opportunity to learn about data analytics tools essential to analyzing and optimizing business decisions.
Gaur’s research focuses on data-driven analysis of problems in supply chains, retailing, e-commerce, and marketplace operations, and his work was recognized with the Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Accomplishments Award from the Production and Operations Management Society in 2006. He served as a department editor for Management Science during 2014-2021, and his current projects involve the reduction of food waste and supply chain risk. He teaches graduate courses in operations management, digital business and retail operations, and data analysis.
Gaur is the 2022 recipient of the Class of 1992 Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2020 recipient of the Stephen Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, and a three-time winner of the Johnson School’s Core Faculty Award, the Cornell-Tsinghua Dual Degree MBA Gravitas Award in 2021, the Johnson Cornell Tech Core Faculty Award by the graduating class of 2017, and honorable mention in the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award Competition in 2001.
Well-known among students for the care and attention he gives to his teaching, he currently teaches the Semester in Strategic Operations MBA immersion course, where students go on site visits and work on client projects in topics such as industry 4.0, traceability, and sales and operations planning.
Before joining Johnson, he was an assistant professor at the NYU Stern School of Business from 2001 to 2007 and a visiting associate professor at Harvard Business School from 2007 to 2008.
Sachin Gupta is Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Marketing at the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management. Professor Gupta’s research focuses on marketing research, healthcare, privacy of marketing data, nonprofits, and marketing analytics.
In 2020 Professor Gupta’s paper published in the Journal of Marketing Research received the AMA-EBSCO Annual Award for Responsible Research in Marketing. The award honors outstanding research that produces credible and useful knowledge that can be applied to benefit society. In 2014 his paper in the International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing received the Outstanding Paper award. In 2008 his paper published in the Journal of Marketing Research in 2003 received the O’Dell award of the American Marketing Association. This award is given to the authors of the best article published five years earlier. Professor Gupta also received the Paul Green award of the American Marketing Association in 2003. In 2007, he received the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly’s best paper award for his article on customer satisfaction in the restaurant industry. Five of his other published papers have been finalists for the O’Dell award, the Paul Green award, and the John D.C. Little award of INFORMS.
In 2020 Professor Gupta was appointed Editor in Chief of the Journal of Marketing Research, where he had been co-editor since 2016. From 2010 to 2013 Professor Gupta was Johnson’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. In that role he was responsible for recruitment and development of faculty, and for the school’s research function. From 2014 to 2018 he was director of Cornell’s PhD program in Management.
At Johnson, Gupta teaches a popular MBA elective course called Data Driven Marketing. He has previously taught MBA elective courses in Marketing Research and Pricing, and the Marketing Management core course in the MBA and EMBA programs. He teaches in a variety of non-degree executive education programs. In 2009, he received the Stephen Russell Distinguished Teaching Award, given by the Johnson class of 2004, at their fifth reunion. In 2007 the graduating MBA class selected him to receive the Apple Award for Teaching Excellence. Gupta is the author of eCornell’s Data Driven Marketing certificate. He previously taught at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he received the Sidney Levy Award for teaching excellence and was recognized in the Dean’s four-star list on multiple occasions.
Dr. David C. Juran, who teaches courses in statistics for management and managing operations, is a winner of six teaching awards at Columbia Business School and at the Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, including the EMBA Globe Award for Teaching Excellence. Juran’s research has appeared in Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, and other journals. Juran’s academic interests are informed by extensive industrial and corporate experience at Pepperidge Farm, Spaulding Company, and Juran Institute, as well as his experience as an independent management consultant for organizations such as [x+1], Gordian Group, Johnson & Johnson, MarketBridge, MTV Networks, Opera Solutions, Veeco, and Carl Zeiss. Dr. Juran earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, concentrating in the fields of operations management, operations research, and organizational behavior.
Clarence Lee is a former Assistant Professor of Marketing at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he was a Breazzano Family Sesquicentennial Fellow. Professor Lee’s research examines the drivers behind consumer adoption, usage, and purchase dynamics of digital goods, where he models consumer behavior using Bayesian statistics, structural econometrics, and machine learning techniques. Digital products and platforms, such as the ones produced by many Silicon Valley and NYC tech startups, are increasingly present in almost all consumer interactions. In such settings, understanding consumer choice and the dynamics of engagement and usage become critically important in order to acquire, serve, and retain consumers. Professor Lee taught Digital Marketing and Data Analytics & Modeling at both the Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses.
Professor Lee received his doctorate from Harvard Business School and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Prior to pursuing graduate studies, he conducted nanotechnology research at IBM and space system design at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Professor Shawn Mankad is an assistant professor of operations, technology, and information management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, where his research focuses on the intersection between data analytics and economic decision making using machine learning techniques. His studies aim to create and apply data mining, machine learning, and visualization techniques for economic modeling with unstructured and complex structured data. His research has been featured in journals and over a dozen media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal and the Chicago Tribune. Prior to joining Johnson in 2015, Professor Mankad was an assistant professor in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He was a consultant with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and also worked at the Federal Reserve Board on characterizing market activity with visual analytic tools. His undergraduate degree is from Carnegie Mellon University, and he received his PhD in statistics from the University of Michigan.
Chris Meredith is a senior portfolio manager and the Director of Research and Portfolio Management at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). He reports to the CEO/CIO and is responsible for managing the investment activities of the firm, which includes supervising the portfolio management team, investment strategy research, and overseeing the firm’s trading efforts. Mr. Meredith’s portfolio management responsibilities include daily model generation, strategy optimization, reviewing account rebalances, and trade analysis. On the research side, he leads a team of analysts that conducts research on new and existing strategies and evaluates the efficacy of new factors. Prior to joining OSAM, Mr. Meredith was a senior research analyst on the Systematic Equity Team at BSAM. He was a director at Oracle Corporation and spent eight years as a technology professional before attending the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.
Mr. Meredith holds a B.A. in English from Colgate University, an MBA from Cornell University, an M.A. in financial mathematics from Columbia University, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He lives in Chappaqua, New York, with his wife and three children.
A graduate of the Johnson MBA program, Angela Noble-Grange is a Senior Lecturer of Management Communication at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management. Professor Noble-Grange teaches Oral Communication and Management Writing. Her interests include persuasive speaking and writing as well as gender and race differences in message perception.
Professor Noble-Grange was the founding director of the Office for Women and Minorities in Business (now ODI) in 1999 and president of the Noble Economic Development Group, a micro-enterprise development consulting company, from June 1994 to January 1999. She has served on numerous boards and is currently a trustee for Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondacks. Professor Noble-Grange earned her B.A. in Communication Studies and Russian in 1983 and her MBA from Johnson in 1994.
Professor Stijn van Osselaer is S.C. Johnson Professor of Marketing at the Johnson Graduate School of Management. His research focuses on branding, customer loyalty, connecting customers with service providers, and the influences of learning, memory, and cognition in consumers’ decisions. His work has appeared in the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, and many other scientific journals. Professor van Osselaer serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and International Journal of Research in Marketing, and he has twice served as an associate editor at the Journal of Consumer Research ((2008-2011, 2012-2018).
At Johnson, Professor van Osselaer teaches the core marketing course. He previously taught at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, London Business School, and Rotterdam School of Management. In 2012-2013, he was a visiting research scholar at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. In 2015, Professor van Osselaer served as the president of the Society for Consumer Psychology. He has also co-chaired the 2010 annual conference of the Association for Consumer Research (ACR) and served as a member of this organization’s board of directors.
Dr. Young-Hoon Park is Sung-Whan Suh Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing at the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management. He is interested in big data marketing, digital marketing, and omnichannel customer analytics. Dr. Park’s research has been published in various leading academic journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Management Science, and Marketing Science.
At Johnson, Dr. Park teaches Customer Analytics and Strategy and Marketing Research, both popular MBA elective courses. He has been recognized for exceptional teaching on multiple occasions; the 2008 graduating MBA class at Johnson selected him to receive the Apple Award for Teaching Excellence. Dr. Park previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, where he received the Wharton Advisory Board Outstanding Teaching Award and the Graduate Student Association Council Teaching Award. Dr. Park earned his Ph.D. degree in Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Drew Pascarella is a lecturer of finance at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where he currently leads the Investment Banking Immersion program and is the faculty director of the Fintech Intensive. In addition, Mr. Pascarella has taught Core Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions (Executive MBA level), Investment Banking Essentials (undergraduate level), and Lectures in Finance. Mr. Pascarella is also heavily involved with executive education initiatives, working with global corporate clients on finance hard skills and Fintech training. Mr. Pascarella was the 2014 recipient of the Class of 1992 Apple Award for Teaching Excellence.
Prior to his arrival at Johnson in 2012, Mr. Pascarella spent 15 years working at bulge bracket investment banks. Mr. Pascarella has advised clients on over $35bn of merger and acquisition transactions and led equity, convertible, and debt financing transactions totaling over $9bn in proceeds. Most recently, Mr. Pascarella was a director in the Technology Investment Banking group at Citi. Notable transactions include the formation of Nokia Siemens Networks (largest JV in corporate history), Nokia’s $8.1bn acquisition of NAVTEQ (largest acquisition by a Finnish corporate) and associated €1.75bn debt IPO, Andrew Corporation’s $2.6bn sale to Commscope, Lucent’s $1.625bn convertible bond offering, and sale of multiple private businesses to Cisco. While at Citi, Mr. Pascarella was an active participant in the Investment Banking Associate Training Program, developing and delivering hard and soft skills courses. Prior to joining Citi, Mr. Pascarella was a technology project manager at Goldman Sachs, where he led the design, development, implementation, and support of global trading technology systems.
In addition to his duties at Johnson, Mr. Pascarella is managing director and head of East Coast Banking of Vista Point Advisors.
Mr. Pascarella holds an MBA from Cornell University and a BBA in computer information systems from James Madison University.
Natalia Santamaría teaches classes in project management and operations management for non-business graduate students. Her research, which focuses on competitive bidding and decision making under competition and uncertainty, has been published in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. Prior to joining Johnson in 2014, she was an assistant professor in the industrial engineering school at Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia. She earned a BS and an MSc in industrial engineering from Universidad de Los Andes, an MSc in operations research from Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. in supply chain management and operations research from the Pennsylvania State University.




Who Should Apply
- Recent graduates and people early in their careers who need to balance a rigorous graduate education with the demands of a full-time job
- Accounting, business, and economics professionals looking to build a solid analytics foundation for working in data-intensive environments
- Data science professionals looking to hone their business management and communication skills
- Professionals who are increasingly using data and technology in businesses
- This program is suitable for those working in for-profit, nonprofit, or public sector enterprises. Examples of industries include e-commerce, consumer products, finance, food, healthcare, management consulting, manufacturing, marketing, retailing, supply chains, and sustainability