Financial management information systems are a sine qua non in public financial management and play a foundational role in the execution of the budget. Recognizing their potential contribution to fiscal discipline, the strategic allocation of resources, and operational efficiency, significant...

Manufacturing in America has become significantly more data-intensive. We investigate the adoption, performance effects and organizational complementarities of data-driven decision making (DDD) in the U.S. Using data collected by the Census Bureau for 2005 and 2010, we observe the extent to...

Trinity Health of Novi, Michigan has sought to tame healthcare’s quality, cost, and accessibility problems by using enterprise-wide digitization, unification, and analytical decision making. It started by making strategic commitments to an enterprise-wide digital platform and a unified...

The growing availability of data and recent developments in optimization methods and machine learning have led to a revolution in modern business analytics. In this Ph.D. dissertation, we propose two frameworks based on mixed-integer optimization that advance business analytics in the context of...