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Bob Batt is the Proctor & Gamble–Bascom Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the Wisconsin School of Business. He also holds an affiliate appointment with the Department of Emergency Medicine in the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. 

Professor Batt’s research is in service operations with an emphasis on healthcare delivery operations. His research has been published in academic journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, the Annals of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine. He serves as Department Editor for Health Care Management Science,  Associate Editor for Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Senior Editor Production and Operations Management, and Guest Associate Editor for Operations Research. Professor Batt is coauthor of the book “Modeling for Insight: A Master Class for Business Analysts” which provides analytics modeling strategies and techniques for ill-structured business problems. 

Professor Batt received his PhD from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2013. He also holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College as well as engineering degrees from Dartmouth College and Wheaton College. Professor Batt teaches Service Operations Management to both undergraduate and MBA students at the Wisconsin School of Business. He has previously taught Data Mining and  Spreadsheet Modeling at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.