Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr.

Assistant Professor Casey Lichtendahl teaches Quantitative Analysis courses in Darden’s MBA programs. His research focuses on eliciting, evaluating, and combining probability forecasts for use in corporate and governmental decision-making situations. His other research interests include modeling consumption preferences for use in personal financial decisions. His work has appeared in leading academic journals such as Management Science and Operations Research. He serves as an Associate Editor for the Institute of Operations Research and Management Sciences’ (INFORMS) journal Decision Analysis.

His research paper, “Probability Elicitation, Scoring Rules, and Competition among Forecasters,” which appeared in Management Science, received an honorable mention from the Decision Analysis Society for its 2007 Publication Award. He was a runner-up in the 2010 INFORMS Case Competition. Lichtendahl has been a nominee for Darden’s Outstanding Faculty Award in 2009, 2010, and 2011. 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.