"Risk management is a field in which academic research has played a particularly important role in shaping business practice," remarked Paul Glasserman, senior vice dean and the Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. "Columbia Business School is dedicated to bridging the gap between theory and practice in business, and this partnership will strengthen connections between faculty and end users to produce viable solutions for problems that businesses face today."
"Risk management is a field in which academic research has played a particularly important role in shaping business practice," remarked Paul Glasserman, senior vice dean and the Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. "Columbia Business School is dedicated to bridging the gap between theory and practice in business, and this partnership will strengthen connections between faculty and end users to produce viable solutions for problems that businesses face today."
For those who don't work in schools, it's difficult to conceive of the amount of paper that Texas' testing process requires. For weeks before test day, stacked boxes of test booklets and answer documents line the rooms of Texas schoolhouses. Each of those heavy boxes has to be shipped twice at great expense, first out to schools and then back to the scoring factory.