Dr. Robert Batt

Biography

Robert Batt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management at the Wisconsin School of Business. He holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health. His research emphasizes healthcare delivery operations, focusing particularly on the operational impacts of crowding in hospital emergency departments. Professor Batt's work has been published in prominent academic journals including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Annals of Emergency Medicine. He serves as the Department Editor for Healthcare Management Science and holds editorial positions in several notable journals. Batt has coauthored the book 'Modeling Insight: Master Class for Business Analysts,' which addresses analytics modeling strategies for complex business problems. He completed his PhD at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 and holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, along with engineering degrees from Dartmouth College and Wheaton College. Professor Batt teaches Service Operations Management to undergraduate and MBA students at the Wisconsin School of Business and has previously taught Data Mining and Spreadsheet Modeling at the Tuck School of Business.

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