Decision Sciences Student Association

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For decades, Procter & Gamble mostly trusted its executives and brand managers’ gut instincts to make critical decisions — when to launch a new product, say, or how much inventory to stock. Today, thanks to exponentially more powerful computer systems and a new generation of predictive software, a new army of “quants” at P&G is helping execs with every important decision — and getting it right almost every time.