Nicholas Hall
The Ohio State University
INFORMS President 2018
This talk will cover four topics at a nontechnical level. The first part of the talk should be of interest to the leaders of the OR and analytics profession. It describes INFORMS’ organization, strategic goals, current situation and activities. A particular focus is INFORMS’ first ever national Policy Summit to be held on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21st.

The second part of the talk should be of interest to researchers and practitioners. The speaker will provide his perspectives on Analytics, what it means and does not mean, where it is leading the field, and some unintended consequences.

The third part of the talk should be of interest to younger scholars and graduate students. The speaker will discuss the currently active directions and research potential of three topics: the sharing economy, precision healthcare, and project management.

The last part of the talk provides a brief discussion of the challenges faced by the operations research and analytics profession currently and over the next 10 years.