Pierre A. David is a Professor of Business Administration and teaches marketing and operations management, particularly as these disciplines are applied to an international environment: his primary teaching focus are the courses in international logistics and international market research offered as part of the International MBA program. In 1999, based upon student recommendations, he received the Bechberger Award for Excellence in Teaching.
He has also had the opportunity to conduct international logistics training sessions in the United States, France, Turkey, China and Brazil. His research interests are in international logistics and international market research, but also include statistics: he is part of a group of faculty members at Kent State University who are doing very-large-scale computer simulations to determine sampling distributions of specific statistics.
He earned an MBA from l’École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord in Lille, France, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD from Kent State University, all of which were in marketing and operations management. He has lived in four different countries (Tunisia, Switzerland, France, and the United States) and visited a dozen more.
Publications:
- International Logistics, Atomic Dog Publishing, 2004.
- International Logistics: the Management of International Trade Operations, Thomson- Atomic Dog Publishing, Second Edition, 2007.
- The sampling distributions of the median, the sampling distributions of truncated means, both submitted.
Classes taught:
- BUS 208 Introduction to Business
- BUS 243 Personal Finance
- BUS 330 Introduction to Marketing
- BUS 365 Management Science
- BUS 432 Marketing Research
- BUS 436 International Marketing
- BUS 624 Operations Management
- BUS 626 International Market Research
- BUS 652 International Logistics
Consulting Work:
- Regionalization of the Fire Departments of seven SouthWestern Cuyahoga County communities.
- Development of an algorithm for estimating electricity consumption of households for First Energy.
- Development of a marketing strategy for Triad Metal Products.
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