David E. Bell
David E. Bell
George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business
Senior Associate Dean, Director of Faculty Planning and Recruiting
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David E. Bell is the George M. Moffett Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. During thirty years on the faculty he has taught courses on managerial economics, risk management, marketing and retailing at both MBA and executive levels. Currently he is teaching the MBA Agribusiness course. He chairs the once-per-year Agribusiness Seminar that attracts 200 food industry executives from around the world to discuss trends in the industry. For several years he chaired the school's ten-week executive education course Program for Management Development (PMD). Following six years as head of the school's Marketing Department he is now Senior Associate Dean with responsibilities including faculty recruiting.
In agribusiness, David is interested in all aspects of the food system, but especially the demand side of the food chain: how eating habits are changing, both with respect to what people eat and the channels through which they choose to buy food.
Along with his co-author, Walter J. Salmon, David has written two books on retailing, Strategic Retail Management and Introduction to Retailing, both available from South-Western Publishing Company.
With Arthur Schleifer Jr., David has produced four books in a series called Managerial Decision Analysis for Course Technology Inc. The books are Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Data Analysis, Regression and Forecasting, Risk Management and Decision Making Under Certainty. His research in this area has centered mostly around the analysis of risk. Most recently he has published a series of papers dealing with the integration of economic and financial theories of risk. His best-known papers are concerned with the incorporation of psychological aspects of risk taking, such as regret and disappointment, into formal decision making systems. He was awarded the 2001 Ramsey Medal by the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS. Since 2005 he has been the Department Editor for Decision Analysis for Management Science.
David received a BA from Merton College, Oxford and a PhD from MIT.
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