Wayne Leslie Winston (born February 14, 1950, in New Jersey) is an American academic who serves as Professor Emeritus of Decision and Information Systems at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Winston has a master's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1971)[1] and a PhD in Operations Research from Yale University (1975).
[1] In 1986 he created the computer game Hoops with Jeff Sagarin.
[2] Winston has worked for Microsoft Corporation, Cisco Systems, 3M Company, Deloitte, the Dallas Mavericks, the US Department of Defense and the US Army.
[4] Winston's books include Marketing Analytics: Data-Driven Techniques with Microsoft Excel,[5] Business Analytics: Data Analysis & Decision Making[6] with S. Christian Albright, and Microsoft Excel 2016 Data Analysis and Business Modeling, Fifth Edition[7] IHis papers include "Optimal Price Skimming by a Monopolist Facing Rational Consumers" published on Management Science,[8] and "Optimality of the shortest line discipline" published by Cambridge University Press.