Rick Hesse
Rick Hesse is currently Professor of Quantitative Methods at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio’s Graduate School of Business. He has taught in engineering schools at Mercer, West Point, and Georgia Tech, and in business schools at Wake Forest, San Diego, and Southern Cal. Rick has been teaching management science using spreadsheets since 1982 in both engineering and business schools at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Since 1982 he has been writing a quarterly column in Decision Line, “In the Classroom,” that has featured teaching tips, mainly about spreadsheet use for solving quantitative models. Rick has written articles in Interfaces, Operations Research, Decision Sciences and several textbooks. His latest text is Managerial Spreadsheet Modeling and Analysis by Irwin/McGraw-Hill.
Rick has won numerous teaching awards, including the national Decision Sciences Innovative Instructional Award and the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the Department of the Army, and Teacher of the Year at the San Diego State School of Business. Dr. Hesse has been involved in consulting on management science problems with companies including ITT, Pratt & Whitney, Brown & Williamson, Piedmont Airlines, GEICO, UPS, and Bluebird.
