Biography

Assistant Professor Casey Lichtendahl teaches Quantitative Analysis courses in Darden’s MBA and Executive Education programs. His research focuses on eliciting, evaluating, and combining probability forecasts and modeling consumption preferences. His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Management Science and Operations Research. He serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science and Decision Analysis.

Several of his research papers received publication awards from the Institute for Management Science and Operations Research (INFORMS). Lichtendahl was nominated for Darden’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. In 2009, he received the University of Virginia’s Mead-Colley Award.

Prior to joining Darden in 2006, Lichtendahl served as a visiting instructor in the economics department at Duke University while in his PhD program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He began his professional career in the beverage industry. In the 1990s, he co-founded the Tradewinds Beverage Company. In 2011, the company was acquired by Nestlé Waters North America.

Publications

Lichtendahl Jr., Kenneth C., Yael Grushka-Cockayne, and Robert L. Winkler, “Is It Better to Average Probabilities or Quantiles?,” fothcoming in Management Science.

 Lichtendahl Jr., Kenneth C. and Samuel E. Bodily, “Multiplicative Utilities for Health and Consumption,” Decision Analysis, 9 (4), .

 Lichtendahl Jr., Kenneth C., Raul O. Chao, and Samuel E. Bodily (2012), “Habit Formation From Correlation Aversion,” Operations Research, 60 (3), 625-637.

Lichtendahl Jr., Kenneth C. and Samuel E. Bodily (2010), “Preferences for Consumption Streams: Scale Invariance, Correlation Aversion, and Delay Aversion under Mortality Risk,” Operations Research, 58 (4), 985-997.

Lichtendahl Jr., Kenneth C. (2009), “Random Quantiles of the Dirichlet Process,” Statistics and Probability Letters, 79 (4), 501-507.  

Lichtendahl Jr., Kenneth C. and Robert L. Winkler (2007), “Probability Elicitation, Scoring Rules, and Competition Among Forecasters,” Management Science, 53 (11), 1745-1755.