Gordon B. Hazen

Professor

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Northwestern University

 

Gordon Hazen is professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. His research interests include decision analysis methodology, utility and preference theory, medical decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis of medical treatment decisions, and normative expert systems. He has published in leading journals including Management Science, Operations Research, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Medical Decision Making, The Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. He is currently the Area Editor for decision analysis at Operations Research, and is a member of the editorial board of the new INFORMS journal Decision Analysis. 

Representative publications

G.B. Hazen (2007), “Adding Extrinsic Goals to the QALY Model”, Decision Analysis 4 (1) 3–16.

G.B. Hazen and Min Huang (2006), “Parametric Sensitivity Analysis Using Large-Sample Approximate Bayesian Posterior Distributions”,. Decision Analysis 3 (4) 208-219.

G.B. Hazen and Min Huang (2006), “Large-Sample Bayesian Posterior Distributions for Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis”, Medical Decision Making 26 (5), 512-534.

G.B. Hazen (2004), “Multiattribute Structure for QALYs”, Decision Analysis 1 (4), 205-216.

J.C. Felli and G.B. Hazen (2004), “Javelin Diagrams: A Graphical Tool for Probabilistic Sensitivity Analysis”, Decision Analysis 1 (2), 93–107.

G.B. Hazen (2003), “A New Perspective on Multiple Internal Rates of Return”, The Engineering Economist 48, 31-51.

G.B. Hazen (2002) “Stochastic Trees and the StoTree Modeling Environment: Models and Software for Medical Decision Analysis”, Journal of Medical Systems 26, 399-413.

G.B. Hazen (2000), "Preference Factoring for Stochastic Trees", Management Science 46, 389-403.

G.B. Hazen and J. Sounderpandian (1999), "Expected-Utility Preference Reversals in Information Acquisition" Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 18, 125-136.

J.C. Felli and G.B. Hazen, "Sensitivity Analysis and the Expected Value of Perfect Information", Medical Decision Making 18 (1998) 95-109.

G.B. Hazen and J.M. Pellissier, "Recursive Utility for Stochastic Trees", Operations Research 44 (1996) 788-809.

R.W. Chang, J.M. Pellissier and G.B. Hazen, "A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Total Hip Arthroplasty for Osteoarthritis of the Hip", Journal of the American Medical Association 275 (1996) 858-865.

G.B. Hazen, "Factored Stochastic Trees: A Tool for Solving Complex Temporal Medical Decision Models," Medical Decision Making. 13 (1993), 227-236.

G.B. Hazen, "Stochastic Trees: A New Technique for Temporal Medical Decision Modeling," Medical Decision Making 12 (1992) 163-178.

Detailed Vita (including other papers for download)

Software

Stochastic trees and the StoTree modeling software

Writing Effective Project Reports

As part of the IEMS senior design course, Professor Hazen has authored a document on writing effective project reports.  You can view a copy here.  

Personal Items

A Verdict on Josh McDowell

 Last updated May 2007