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Arif Ansari

  • Professor of Clinical Data Sciences and Operations

Arif Ansari is an expert in the area of data mining, business intelligence, data warehousing, and intelligent systems and technologies, a field in which he has fifteen years of research experience. He has published in IEEE Transactions on Systems and Man and Cybernetics. Professor Ansari received Marshall's Golden Apple Award in 2006.

Arif Ansari
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Areas of Expertise

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Programs

Online MBA (OMBA)

Departments

Data Sciences + Operations

NEWS + EVENTS

RESEARCH + PUBLICATIONS

COURSES

Fall 2025
  • GSBA-537
    Managing Inside the Firm
    Thematic exploration of managerial accounting, employment law, operations management and organizational behavior. Application of analytics and communication to optimize internal operations.
Spring 2025
  • GSBA-539
    Business Environment and Leadership
    Thematic exploration of finance, macroeconomics, international business, corporate strategy, and marketing strategy.
  • DSO-516
    Probability and Data Modeling
    Principles of probability structures and models with uncertainty. Applications to business data with model-building and simulations in Excel.
  • DSO-528
    Blended Data Business Analytics for Efficient Decisions
    Build Analytical Models for Classification, Clustering and Association Problems. Leverage third party "Big Data" for enriching and monetizing data. Develop data mining and business analysis.
  • DSO-545
    Statistical Computing and Data Visualization
    Data cleaning and reshaping; good vs. bad graphics; univariate, bivariate, trivariate, hypervariate and time series graphics; interactive graphics; web-related computing.
Fall 2024
  • GSBA-537
    Managing Inside the Firm
    Thematic exploration of managerial accounting, employment law, operations management and organizational behavior. Application of analytics and communication to optimize internal operations.
Spring 2024
  • GSBA-539
    Business Environment and Leadership
    Thematic exploration of finance, macroeconomics, international business, corporate strategy, and marketing strategy.
  • DSO-528
    Blended Data Business Analytics for Efficient Decisions
    Build Analytical Models for Classification, Clustering and Association Problems. Leverage third party "Big Data" for enriching and monetizing data. Develop data mining and business analysis.
  • DSO-545
    Statistical Computing and Data Visualization
    Data cleaning and reshaping; good vs. bad graphics; univariate, bivariate, trivariate, hypervariate and time series graphics; interactive graphics; web-related computing.
Fall 2023
  • GSBA-537
    Managing Inside the Firm
    Thematic exploration of managerial accounting, employment law, operations management and organizational behavior. Application of analytics and communication to optimize internal operations.
  • DSO-528
    Blended Data Business Analytics for Efficient Decisions
    Build Analytical Models for Classification, Clustering and Association Problems. Leverage third party "Big Data" for enriching and monetizing data. Develop data mining and business analysis.