Krzysztof Fleszar
Professor & BIDS Convener (Department Chair)
Business Information and Decision Systems Track (BIDS)
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business (OSB)
American University of Beirut (AUB)
Mailing address:
American University of Beirut, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business
P.O.Box 11-0236, Riad El-Solh, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
Office: OSB 307 | Phone: +961.1.350000 x 3734 | Email: kf09@aub.edu.lb, kfleszar@gmail.com
Quick Links
Decision Making 101 - my video lectures on optimization, decision analysis, simulation, and other decision-making topics
Operations Management 101 - my video lectures on operations management and supply chain management topics
My OSB web page (including the list of my publications)
Research - data, results, and source codes of some of my research work
Scopus, Google Scholar, Clarivate Web of Science, ORCID, ResearchGate, Academia.edu (my publications and citations)
LaTeX is Easy - a short introduction to LaTeX
Beamer Class Tutorial - an introduction to creating presentations in LaTeX (also available in Polish)
Favorite Quotations
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato
"It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet." - Ernest Hemingway
"When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's only painful and difficult for others. The same applies when you are stupid." - Ricky Gervais
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark Twain
"Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous." - Confucius
"Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." - Jules Renard
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
"All things are difficult before they are easy." - Thomas Fuller
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." - Niels Bohr
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is." - Yogi Berra
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlons Razer
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. "Surely you, a world-famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?". "Of course not," Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not." - Neils Bohr
"Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government, in pursuit of good intentions, tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost comes in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player." - Milton Friedman
"Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Yet those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it."