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Students Turn Data Into Decisions at the 2025 KPMG + Layton Construction Data Analytics Challenge
The David Eccles School of Business buzzed with dashboards, predictive models, and a lot of teamwork as students took on the 2025 KPMG + Layton Construction Data Analytics Challenge. Over seven days, teams stepped into the role of real consultants by analyzing HR data from Layton Construction and transforming it into insights the company could use. A Real-World Challenge That Felt Like Consulting Students worked with monthly HR snapshots that included demographics, tenure, age bands, and separation categories. Their goal was not to simply visualize trends but to understand what those trends meant and recommend actions Layton’s HR team could [...]
Eccles School alumni encourage students at Opportunity Scholars Gratitude Luncheon to develop perspective and build relationships
Each November, the Opportunity Scholars program hosts a Gratitude Luncheon for students, staff, mentors, advisory board members, and supporters as a means of expressing thankfulness for the work being done to augment the educational journeys of first-generation business students. “This is a chance to take some time to slow down, be together as a community, and just celebrate each other,” noted program manager Franscine Anmontha. The event this year featured a moderated discussion among David Eccles School of Business alumni Anfissa Silva Smith, David Muñoz, and Kristin Dittmer, who looked shared memories of the people and events that shaped their [...]
Nitin Bakshi earns Operations conferences ‘Best Paper Award’ for research investigating judicial backlog in India
Nitin Bakshi, chair and professor in the Department of Operations and Information Systems, was honored by the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Society for his research. Bakshi’s paper, “Service operations for justice-on-time: A data-driven queueing approach,” co-written with Jeunghyun Kim, and Raman S. Randhawa, received the MSOM Service Management Special Interest Group Best Paper Award at the annual Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) conference. This year’s INFORMS Annual Meeting took place Oct. 26-29 in Atlanta. The paper looks at the Indian judicial system, which has a backlog of nearly 41 million cases, about 25% of [...]
