Patrick Noonan

Current

• Associate Professor at Emory University

Past

• Director, Co-Founder at Planning Technologies Group
• Faculty at Harvard Business School
• Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company

• President (New England) at Greenpeace

see less...

1 more...

Education

• Emory University - Goizueta Business School
• Harvard Business School
• Yale University - Yale School of Management

• Yale University

see less...

1 more...

Recommended

22 people have recommended Patrick

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Higher Education

Patrick Noonan’s Summary

Professional goal: Creating social value by improving the decision quality of managers and leaders, at all levels, across functional types, in all sectors.

We can accomplish this by fortifying natural, intuitive decision processes with careful, systematic reasoning -- and channeled, constructive creativity -- about:

-- decisions & alternatives
-- risks & uncertainties
-- tradeoffs among objectives
-- common and conflicting goals of other players
-- clear thinking about complexity & information

Coming in 3Q10: "Decision & Information Analysis," my new text on decision making & data analysis, published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Patrick Noonan’s Specialties:

Decision & risk analysis; game theory, negotiation & strategic thinking; the psychology of judgment & decision making; data analysis; optimization; spreadsheet analytics; structured problem-solving & communication

Patrick Noonan’s Experience

• Associate Professor

  Emory University

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 1993 — Present (16 years 7 months)

  Goizueta Business School
  Assoc. Prof. in the Practice of Decision & Info. Analysis
  Assistant Dean, Director of MBA Programs (1996-2000)

• Director, Co-Founder

  Planning Technologies Group

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 1990 — February 1998 (8 years 2 months)

  Strategy boutique firm, specializing in helping senior management improve their planning and decision processes by leveraging innovative information technologies and executive decision support. Sold to NextEra/Knowledge Universe.

• Faculty

  Harvard Business School

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  1992 — 1993 (1 year )

  Lecturer - MBA1 course, "Managerial Economics (ME)"

• Engagement Manager

  McKinsey & Company

  (Partnership; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  May 1983 — May 1988 (5 years 1 month)

  New York office; Media & Entertainment Practice (newspaper publishing, recorded music, satellite communications); Financial Services; Systems Integration

• President (New England)

  Greenpeace

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 1980 — July 1982 (2 years 7 months)

  Director of Education (1980-81); President (1981-82); Board of Directors (1980-82)

Patrick Noonan’s Education

• Emory University - Goizueta Business School

  Professor , DIA , 1993 — 2011 (expected)

  I've been on the faculty of Emory's business school since 1993. From 1996-2000, I also served as Asst. Dean and Director of MBA Programs. I teach primarily MBA students in our full-time and evening programs.

• Harvard Business School

  Ph.D. , Decision Sciences , 1988 — 1992

  SM, Engineering Sciences, 1989

  Activities and Societies:

  Dissertation committee: Howard Raiffa, John Pratt, Arthur Schleifer

• Yale University - Yale School of Management

  MBA , Public & Private Management , 1982 — 1984

  Activities and Societies:

  Teaching Assistant - Economic Analysis, Competitive Strategies (Prof. Sharon Oster), Teaching with a Personal Computer (Prof. Phil Dybvig); Tutor - Data Analysis & Statistics (Prof. Robert Shiller)

• Yale University

  BS , Engineering & Applied Science , 1973 — 1977

  Activities and Societies:

  magna cum laude, distinction in major
  National Engineering Honor Society (Tau Beta Pi)

Additional Information

Patrick Noonan’s Interests:

Music; media & entertainment industries; politics; world travel

Patrick Noonan’s Groups:

Harvard Business School Alumni Board ('04-'09), INFORMS, American Statistical Association, NARAS (The Grammy Organization)

Decision Analysis Society, Council Member (2009-2012)

•    Yale SOM Alumni
•    Goizueta Business School at Emory University
•    McKinsey & Company Alumni (Unofficial McKinsey Group)
•    Yale University Alumni
•    Harvard Business School Alumni
•    INFORMS
•    Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
•    Atlanta Business School Alliance
•    Leadership Atlanta 2004
•    Excel Gurus
•    Decision Professionals Network
•    INFORMS Annual Meeting

Patrick Noonan’s Honors:

Distinguished Educator Award, Fulltime MBA ('95, '00, '02, '05, '08)
Distinguished Educator Award, Evening MBA ('04, '07, '08, '09)
Fulbright Senior Scholar grant (Uruguay '05)
Leadership Atlanta (Class of 2004)
Outstanding Faculty Member, Business Week's biennial book, "Best Business Schools" ('97, '99, '01, '03)
Yale Alumni Assn., Distinguished Svc. Award ('02)
Marc F. Adler Prize for Teaching Excellence ('01)
Donald Keough Award for Excellence ('99)

Patrick Noonan’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch