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Linda Leon, Ph.D.

Office: Hilton 209
Phone: 310.338.7634
Email:lleon
@lmu.edu

Linda Leon


Areas of Expertise

• Spreadsheet Operation Research Modeling Techniques
• Supply Chain Management
• Financial Modeling

Biography

Linda Leon has been a finance professor at Loyola Marymount University for 20 years where she is an expert in spreadsheet operation research modeling techniques, supply chain management and financial modeling. Leon is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science, Chair of the 2007 INFORMS Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium, a member of Beta Gamma Sigma national honor society and is a former reviewer for two journals.

Education

• PhD: UCLA (1988)
• BS: UCLA (1988)


Recent Publications


Leon, L., Seal, K.C. and Przasnyski, Z.H. (2006). “Captivate Your Students’ Minds: Developing Interactive Tutorials to Support the Teaching of Spreadsheet Modeling Skills,” INFORMS Transactions on Education, 7(1).

Abraham, D.M. and Leon, L. (2005). “Knowledge Management in Supply Chain Systems,” Encyclopedia of Communities of Practice in Information and Knowledge Management, Idea Group Publications, Hershey, PA, 293-300.

Leon, L., and Tai, L. (2004). “Implementing Cooperative Learning in a Team-Teaching Environment,” Journal of Education for Business, 79(5). 287-293.

Abraham, D.M., Leon, L., Nakatsu, R., Przasnyski, Z., and Seal, K.C. (2004). “The Alignment of Organizational Incentives with Organizational Goals Across IT Adoption Stages,” Proceedings of the Tenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, New York, 742-750.