Owner and principal Carrie Beam stays on top of developments in data science, and actively contributes to the field through her consulting, graduate-level teaching, speaking engagements, and writing.

Carrie's articles have been published in academic and business journals, and some are also available online. If you have questions regarding a specific article or its availability, please contact us.

Selected Presentations:

Where Do You Hide the Math?

Beam, Carrie
Talk given at the IEOR Graduate Student Seminar, University of California, Berkeley
October 2, 2006

   
   

Data Mining for Poets, Market Researchers, and Math Haters

Beam, Carrie
Talk given at the Institute of Management Consultants' CONFAB Conference
Reno, NV, October 23, 2004

(Presentation CD ROMs, audio CDs, and cassettes can be purchased from Digital Conference Providers, Inc. via phone, (630) 985-1182, or e-mail.)

Click here to download your own Data Mining Opportunity Evaluation Scorecard.

   
   

Being My Own Boss: How I Established an Independent IEOR Consulting Practice

Beam, Carrie
Talk given at the Pacific Rim International Conference on Management Science,
University of California, Berkeley
March 1, 2003

   
   
Selected Publications:

Reality Check: The Top Five Misconceptions About Starting an IEOR Consulting Career

Beam, Carrie
OR/MS Today (member magazine of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS))
Marietta, GA, October 2006

   
   

The Numbers and Beyond: How to Assess Your Sales Pipeline

Beam, Carrie
C2M (Consulting to Management)
Burlingame, CA, June 2006

   
   

The Numbers and Beyond: Performance Measures for Your Business

Beam, Carrie, and Jeremy Sack
C2M (Consulting to Management)
Burlingame, CA, December 2005

   
   

The Numbers and Beyond: Turn Quantitative Data into Meaningful Information

Beam, Carrie
C2M (Consulting to Management)
Burlingame, CA, June 2005

   
   
How I Started an OR/MS Consulting Practice with a Laptop, a Phone, and a PhD

Beam, Carrie
Interfaces, Vol 34, No. 4, July-Aug 2004, pp. 265-271

see abstract (PDF format)

(Full article is available to members at Informs PubsOnLine. If you encounter a problem loading the page, copy and paste http://pubsonline.informs.org/ into a new browser window.)
   
   

Where Do You Hide the Math? Small Operations Research Problems in the Everyday Business World

Beam, C.
Proceedings of the INFORMS Conference on OR/MS Practice
Cambridge, MA, April 28, 2004

   
   

Optimal Design of Internet-Based Auctions

Segev, Arie, Carrie Beam, and J. George Shanthikumar
Information Technology and Management, April 2001; 2,2; pp. 121-163

   
   

On Negotiations and Deal Making in Electronic Markets

Beam, C., Arie Segev, Martin Bichler, and Ramayya Krishnan
Information Systems Frontiers, October 1999; pp. 241-258

   
   
Auctioning and Bidding in Electronic Commerce: The Online Auction

Beam, C.
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 1999

(More than 30 copies sold to date by ProQuest)
   
   
An Electronic Broker for Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce

Segev, A., M. Bichler, and C. Beam
International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems, 1999
   
   
Services of a Broker in Electronic Commerce Transactions

Bichler, M., C. Beam, and A. Segev
in Schmid, Beat F; Selz, Dorian; Sing, Regine: EM - Electronic Transactions. EM - Electronic Markets, Vol. 8, No. 1, May 1998

(Abstract available at http://www.electronicmarkets.org/; members can download full article. Search publications by author Beam.)
   
   
Impact of the Internet on Procurement

Segev, A., J. Gebauer, and C. Beam
Acquisition Review Quarterly (Special Issue on Managing Radical Change)
Spring 1998; pp. 14, 167
   
   
Procurement in the Internet Age - Current Practices and Emerging Trends (Results From a Field Study)

Segev, A., J. Gebauer, and C. Beam
Fisher Center Working Paper 98-WP-1033, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
   
   

Object Frameworks for Electronic Commerce Using Distributed Objects for Brokerage on the Web

Segev, A., C. Beam, and M. Bichler
in Proceedings of Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures, 1998

(Available at http://www.objs.com/workshops/ws9801/papers/paper077.html)

   
   
Automated Negotiations: A Survey of the State of the Art

Beam, C., and A. Segev
Wirtschaftsinformatik 39, 3, 1997
   
   
Articles in Which Quoted, or to Which Otherwise Contributed:
A Society of Learners

Larson, Richard C.
OR/MS Today (member magazine of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS))
Marietta, GA, August 2005
   
   
Brain Gain

Baldwin, Heather
Selling Power (Solutions for Sales Management)
Fredericksburg, VA, December 2003
 


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