Shari De Baets, Research Associate, Vlerick Business School How did you become a forecaster? I started working as a researcher on business research projects in 2010. One of the topics centered on decision-making and more specifically, the heuristics-and-biases tradition. While looking for literature [...]
How did you become a forecaster? While pursuing a master’s degree in industrial engineering I was exposed to forecasting in an operations research and supply chain management course. I was also introduced to the classic book Forecasting: Methods and Applications by Makridakis, Wheelwright, [...]
How did you become a forecaster? It is a little fraudulent for me to claim that I am a forecaster! When asked to give an explicit forecast, the one thing I have learnt from my research is that forecasting is a perilous [...]
How did you become a forecaster? My path to forecasting was more like a maze than a straight line. In 2005, I joined North Carolina State University’s Electrical Engineering doctoral program. Halfway through my PhD study, in January 2008, I started working [...]
How did you get started in forecasting? While studying for my bachelor’s degree in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), I was very fortunate to meet my mentor, Kostas Nikolopoulos, at that time coordinator of the Forecasting [...]
Why I became a Forecaster Herman Stekler In writing this little biographical sketch, I have come to realize that reconstructing historical events as they occurred in real-time is as difficult as making an actual forecast. I did not plan on becoming a forecaster; [...]
Why I Became a Forecaster? Almost 20 years ago, after graduating as an electrical and computer engineer and obtaining my MBA, I was trying to solve a forecasting problem I had at work. I was trying to determine new clients and their [...]
Why I became a forecaster, Peg Young It was a dark and stormy night….no, no – that’s the start of another story. This story starts in Lewiston, Maine, where I was attending Bates College, with plans to obtain a Bachelor’s in mathematics. Prior [...]
Why I Became a Forecaster In the last semester of my Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) at Monash University, I received an offer of employment with one of the major banks in Australia (the ANZ bank). At the time, I was getting ready [...]
