* Statistics for Managers
* Reengineering and Six Sigma
* Lean Operations
* Quality Management

Dr. William C. Parr is Professor of Decision Sciences at CEIBS and has been teaching MBA students at CEIBS as a visiting professor since 2003. Before joining CEIBS in August 2006, he was a tenured professor in the Department of Statistics at University of Tennessee. Dr. Parr received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.

Professor Parr was promoted to Associate and Professor in near-record time, being promoted to Associate Professor after only 4 years at the Assistant Professor level, and to Full Professor after only an additional 3 years in academics at the Associate Professor level.

Dr. Parr has extensive practical experience working as a consultant to industry, and in previous full-time employment as Senior Scientist in charge of Statistical Development at the Harris Corporation, Semiconductor Sector. At the Harris Corporation, he managed an organization of statisticians and support staff providing consulting and training to an organization of roughly 12,000 employees. Dr. Parr was closely involved with efforts at Harris Corporation to implement the philosophy of statistical management, which led to the Semiconductor Sector receiving the 1984 Institute for Productivity Through Quality Achievement Award. In addition, he consulted with senior management on the management and cultural implications of statistical tools and the philosophy of continuous improvement. He has published over 60 papers, and does research in the areas of statistical management, lean operations, and systems analysis.

Dr. Parr's current research interests focus on the implementation of Six Sigma in China, statistical quality control methods, use of statistical methods by managers and in industry, lean systems and lean manufacturing, organizational excellence and case-based and other interactive teaching methods. His research papers have been published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, the Annals of Statistics, Six Sigma Forum Magazine, MBA Roundtable Journal, Quality Engineering, The American Statistician and other leading academic journals. Dr. Parr's major honors and awards include being named a Fellow of American Statistical Association and receiving the Chancellor's Award for Innovation in Teaching (UT, Knoxville).

In recent years Dr. Parr has consulted extensively with the United States Air Force, Lockheed-Martin Corporation, Intersil, Honeywell, The Carlysle Company, Eli Lilly and Company, the Internal Revenue Service, Procter & Gamble,  Harris Corporation, Pittsburgh Tube, National Semiconductor, Sematech, Zellweger Luwa, Southern Graphic Systems, University of Kentucky College of Business and Economics, Pepsi Cola, Weyerhaeuser, Deli Express, The White Stone Group, and Sachnoff & Weaver. 

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