W.L. Gore Lecture Series in Management Science

The W.L. Gore Lecture Series in Management Science, which is sponsored by an endowment from the Gore family, features experts who apply probability, statistics and experimental design to decision making. Their work has applications in academia, business, government, engineering and medicine.

This lecture series recognizes the key role that management science has played in the success of W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc. The inaugural lecture was given in March 2011.

For more information, contact Darwin Davis or Caroline Swift.

Lecture History

2025: Data, Decisions, and the Drive to Optimize Health Systems
Dr. Julie Swann
A. Doug Allison Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University

2024: Redesigning Harvesting Processes and Improving Working Conditions in Agribusiness
Dr. Saurabh Bansal
Professor of Supply Chain Management, Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University

2023: Are All Generic Drugs Created Equal?
Dr. John V. Gray
Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Operations and Business Analytics, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University

2022: The Seven Deadly Sins of Data Science
Dr. Richard D. De Veaux
C. Carlisle and Margaret Tippit Professor of Statistics, Williams College

2019: Urban Analytics and the Value of University/City Partnerships
Dr. Katherine B. Ensor
Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics, and Director, Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems, Rice University

2017: Curing Healthcare with Data
Dr. A. Blanton Godfrey
Joseph D. Moore Distinguished University Professor of Textile & Apparel Technology & Management, College of Textiles, North Carolina State University

2016: Social Media as Social Commerce
Sinan Aral
David Austin Professor of Management & Associate Professor of IT & Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management

2015: Conceptualization of Service Quality
Dr. A. Parasuraman
James W. McLamore Chair in Marketing, Professor, and Department Chair, Marketing, School of Business Administration, University of Miami

2014: Monitoring and Improving Surgical Quality
Dr. William H. Woodall
Professor of Statistics at Virginia Tech

2013: Statistical Systems
Dr. James M. Lucas
Principal at J.M. Lucas and Associates, Statistics and Quality Management

2013: Statistical Thinking: Improving the Effectiveness of Analytical Studies
Dr. Ron Snee
President of Snee Associates

2012: Everyday Examples of Experimental Design with Applications in Marketing, Health Care, Education, Biometry and Engineering
J. Stuart Hunter
Professor Emeritus at Princeton University in the school of Engineering and Applied Science

2011: Design of Experiments: New Methods and How to Use Them in Design, Development, and Decision-Making
Dr. Douglas C. Montgomery
Regents’ Professor of Industrial Engineering and Statistics and ASU Foundation Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University