Publications and Presentations

Kromite is committed to active participation in technical communities and education.  Here are some of our recent and upcoming activities that we can disclose.

2011

Negro, Francesco and Alberti, Alfredo; Kromite co-authors: Razavi, Homie A., Wallace, Carolyn, Largen, Angie, Sibbel, Scott, & Young, Kendra, Special Issue: The global health burden of hepatitis C virus infection. In: Liver International. Volume 31, Issue Supplement s2, Pages 1-80, July 2011.

Kloeber, Jack.  Portfolio Decision Analysis in Pharmaceutical R&D. In: Salo A, Keisler J, Morton A, eds. Portfolio Decision Analysis. 1st ed. Springer; July 2011.

Kromite, Center for Disease Analysis – Sponsored an educational booth at the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) conference, March 30- April 2, 2011, Berlin, Germany.

B. Klimack – Serves as the Practice column editor of Decision Analysis Today.

B. Klimack – Presented “Junior Achievement Uses Multiobjective Decision Analysis to Educate and Inspire More Students” at the 2011 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics, April 12, 2011, Chicago, Illinois.

2010

B. Klimack – Served as the Practice column editor of Decision Analysis Today.

B. Klimack – Chaired the INFORMS Practice Conference, April 18-20 2010, Orlando, Florida. See the comments of Tom Davenport, author of Competing on Analytics.

H. Razavi – Presented “Solving the World’s Simplest Problem: How Many People Will Have Hepatitis C in Ten Years” at the 2010 INFORMS Practice Conference, April 19, 2010, Orlando, Florida.

B. Klimack – Taught the Soft Skill Workshop “Teaching Interpersonal Skills to Technical Professionals”- at the INFORMS Practice Conference, April 18-20, 2010, Orlando, Florida.

Kromite & SDG – Co-sponsored the 2010 DAAG (Decision Analysis Affinity Group) conference, April 21-22, 2010, Orlando, Florida.

J. Kloeber and H. Razavi – Taught a ½ day tutorial “Nuts and Bolts of Portfolio Management” at the Drug Information Association Annual Meeting, June 16, 2010, Washington, DC.

J. Kloeber, B. Klimack & C. K. Kim – Presented “East Coast DA Meets West Coast DA in Pharma Portfolio Decision Analysis” at the Society of Decision Professionals Learning Exchange, September 22, 2010

J. Kloeber – Presented “Helping Companies Think About Uncertainty in Project and Portfolio Valuation: Assessing and Using Uncertainty to Drive Decisions and Indicate Actions” at Arizona State University, November 18, 2010

2009

B. Klimack – Served as the Practice column editor of Decision Analysis Today.

B. Klimack – Chairman of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Continuing Education Committee.

J. Kloeber & B. Klimack – Taught the Soft Skill Workshop “Teaching Interpersonal Skills to Technical Professionals” - at the INFORMS Practice Conference, April 26, 2009, Phoenix, Arizona.

J. Kloeber and H. Razavi – Taught ½ day tutorial entitled “Portfolio Management – The Nuts and Bolts of Aligning Operations with Strategy” at the Drug Information Association Annual Meeting, June 2009, San Diego, California.

Kromite – Sponsored the 2009 CBI’s Portfolio Management Conference, September 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

H. Razavi & J. Kloeber – “Clean Teams – A Method to Ensure Rapid Consolidation of Merging Companies Portfolios” - at CBI’s Portfolio Management Conference, September 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

J. Kloeber – Co-chaired the Decision Analysis Cluster at the Annual INFORMS Conference, October 2009, San Diego, California.

J. Kloeber & M. Pfund – Presented “Portfolio Management Methods in a Competitive Pharmaceutical Industry” October 2009, San Diego, California.

Kromite – Sponsored the 2009 CHI’s Portfolio Management conference, November 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

J. Kloeber – Presented “Novel Method for Evaluating Early Development Projects” at CHI’s Portfolio Management conference, November 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

J. Hartman, P. Keles & J. Kloeber – Submitted for publication “Optimizing Decision Making within a Portfolio of Innovative Pharmaceutical Projects” to Decision Analysis.