Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 162)

An Invitation to Portfolio Decision Analysis.- Portfolio Decision Quality.- The Royal Navy’s Type 45 Story: A Case Study.- Valuation of Risky Projects Using Portfolio Selection Models.- Interactive Multicriteria Methods in Portfolio Decision Analysis.- Empirically Investigating the Portfolio Management Process: Finding from a Large Pharmaceutical Company.- Behavioral Issues in Portfolio Decision Analysis.- Portfolio Methods for Supporting Innovation Management Processes.- An Experimental Comparison of Two Interactive Visualization Methods for Multicriteria Portfolio Selection.- Multiple Criteria Sorting: An Application to Student Selection.- A Resource Allocation Model for R&D Investments: A Case Study in Telecommunication Standardization.- Resource Allocation in Local Government with Facilitated Portfolio Decision Analysis.- Portfolio Decision Analysis in Pharmaceutical R&D.- Portfolio Decision Analysis: Lessons from Military Applications.- Portfolio Decision Analysis for Population Health.

Ahti Salo is Professor of systems analysis at the Systems Analysis Laboratory of the Aalto University School of Science. He obtained his M.Sc. and Dr.Tech. degrees at the Helsinki University of Technology in 1987 and 1992, respectively. He has worked as a senior researcher at the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) and Nokia Research Center, and as a visiting professor at the London Business School, Universite Paris-Dauphine and the University of Vienna. His research interests include portfolio decision analysis, risk management, efficiency analysis, and technology foresight. He has written well over 100 publications, including papers in leading journals such as Management Science, Operations Research and European Journal of Operational Research, and is currently an Associate Editor of Decision Analysis. He has directed numerous high-impact decision support processes such as the national foresight project FinnSight 2015. In 2010, he became the President of the Finnish Operations Research Society, served on the jury of the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award, and began his work as the European and Middle East Representative on the INFORMS International Activities Committee. Jeffrey Keisler is Associate Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He earned a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and an S.M. in Engineering Sciences at Harvard as well as an MBA at the University of Chicago and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin. He has over fifty assorted publications including articles in journals such as Decision Analysis, Interfaces, and Risk analysis. His research interests include decision analysis applications, portfolio decision analysis, decision processes, value of information, and other decision analytic methods. He was previously a decision analyst at General Motors, Argonne National Laboratory and Strategic Decisions Group. He is Editor of Decision Analysis Today and an Associate Editor for Interfaces. He is President of the Specialty Group on Decision Analysis and Risk within the Society for Risk Analysis. Most recently, he became Vice-President/President-Elect of the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society. Dr Alec Morton is Lecturer in Operational Research in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He teaches courses in decision analysis, simulation, and statistics, and his research interests are in the application of decision analysis to planning problems, especially in healthcare; in Multicriteria Decision Analysis and Multiobjective Optimization; in the normative foundations of health economics, and in games of attack and defence. He is a graduate of the Universities of Manchester and Strathclyde, and before joining the LSE, worked at Singapore Airlines and the National University of Singapore. Contributing Authors Mara Airoldi, London School of Economics and Political Science Gonzalo Arevalo, Carlos III National Health Institute Nikolaos Argyris, London School of Economics and Political Science Roger Chapman Burk, US Military Academy, West Point Zeger Degraeve, London Business School Bert De Reyck, University College London and London Business School, Barbara Fasolo, London School of Economics and Political Science Jose Rui Figueira, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa and Ecole des Mines de Nancy L. Alberto Franco, Warwick Business School Johannes Gettinger, Vienna University of Technology Janne Gustafsson, Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance Company Elmar Kiesling, University of Vienna, Jack Kloeber, Kromite, LLC Juuso Liesio, Aalto University School of Science Gilberto Montibeller, London School of Economics and Political Science Vincent Mousseau, Ecole Centrale Paris Gregory S. Parnell, US Military Academy,West Point Lawrence D. Phillips, London School of Economics and Political Science David Rios Insua, Royal Academy of Sciences Julie Stal-Le Cardinal, Ecole Centrale Paris Jeffrey S. Stonebraker, North Carolina State University Christian Stummer, Universitat Bielefeld Antti Toppila, Aalto University School of Science Rudolf Vetschera, University of Vienna Detlof vonWinterfeldt, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Jun Zheng, Ecole Centrale Paris