Stephen Huxley

Professor of Information and Decision Modeling

Tel: 415-422-6628
Fax: 415-422-2502
TDD: 415-422-6439
huxleys@usfca.edu

University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, Malloy Hall
San Francisco, CA 94117-1045 U.S.A.

• Ph.D., Economics, University of California, San Diego, 1975
• B.Sc., Business Administration and Statistics, Ohio State University, 1966

• MBA612: Decision Modeling and Data Analysis
• MBA659: Decision Modeling for Personal Finance

Positions Held

• At the University of San Francisco since 1975
• Acting Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Business and Management, University of San Francisco (1999)

Selected Papers & Publications

• Nonprofit Staff Scheduler: Users must be familiar with basic Excel spreadsheet technology.  Please read the instructions carefully.
• “The Match Makers,” Financial Planning, February, 2008
• “Asset Dedication,” Presented at the Financial Planning Association National Conference, Nashville, October, 2006
• “Patrol Officer Scheduling for the SFPD,” Invited Presentation at the SYMPOSIUM ON OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM, Washington, DC, September, 2006, sponsored by the National Institute of Justice
• “Asset Dedication vs. Asset Allocation:  Dawn of a New Paradigm,” Presented at the 61st International Atlantic Economic Conference, Berlin, Germany, March 2006
• Asset Dedication, McGraw-Hill, 2005. With J. Brent Burns.
• “Transferring Critical Path Technology to Financial Planning.” IPSI Conference, Waikoloa , Hawaii , Jan. 6-9, 2005. Published in the Proceedings.
• “Foreign Aid Allocations to Maximize Development.” CORS/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Banff, Canada, May 16-19, 2004.
• “The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number: Estimating the Efficiency of Foreign Aid.” 2002 Policy Modeling International Conference, Brussels, Belgium, July 4-6, 2002. Published in the Proceedings.
• "Measuring Freedom: A Data Envelopment Analysis," presented at the First International Conference on The Analysis and Measurement of Freedom: Theoretical, Empirical and Institutional Perspectives, Palermo, Italy. Sep., 2001
• “A Data Mining Approach to Forecasting Inflation.” 20th International Symposium Forecasting, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2000.
• “Benford’s Law of First Digits.” Annual International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Athens, Greece, July 1999.
• “Searching for Economies of Scale in Public Agencies using Data Envelopment Analysis,” presented at the Annual International Conference for Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, Tel Aviv, Israel, July, 1998
• "Customer Surveys: The Quality Sample," The Cornell Quarterly (December, 1992)
• "A Break from Tradition for the San Francisco Police:  Patrol Officer Scheduling Using an Optimization Based Decision System," Interfaces (Jan., 1989) (Based on winning entry for the Franz Edelman award)
• "Quick and Dirty Forecasts of the Consumer Price Index:  How Dirty?" Studies in Economic Analysis (Spring, 1987)
• "Finding the Right Spot for a Church Camp in Spain," Interfaces (October, 1982)
• "Predicting Response Speed in Mail Surveys," Journal of Marketing Res. (Feb., 1980)

• Acting Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Business, University of San Francisco (1999)
• Consultant, Productivity and Quality Studies, California Public Utilities Commission (1991-1992)
• Consultant, Design and implementation of personnel scheduling systems (1986-1991)
• Expert Witness (1969- present)

• The USF Sarlo Prize, 2000 (Highest award given by USF to a single faculty member)
• Outstanding Teaching Award, School of Business, 1999, 1993, 1989, 1987.
• Outstanding Service Award, School of Business, 2001, 1999, 1997.
• Colleague of the Year Award, School of Business, 1998.
• Outstanding Research Award, School of Business and USF, 1988.
• Winner of the 17th Annual International Franz Edelman Competition for Management Science Achievement, April, 1988, Washington, D.C.