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Elaine Allen
David Blackwell
The Global Entrepreneurship Research
Association recently appointed Elaine
Allen chair of the Global Entrepreneurship
Monitor Research Committee.
Allen is the research director of
the Arthur M. Blank Center for
Entrepreneurship and an associate profes-
sor of statistics and entrepreneurship at
Babson College. She is also codirector of
the Babson Survey Research Group.
Sastry Pantula, head
of the Department
Prior to joining Babson, Allen held exec-
of Statistics at NC
utive positions in the health care and bio-
State, presents
technology industry, including at Centocor,
David Blackwell
ARIAD, and MetaWorks Inc. She also held
(sitting) with an
faculty appointments at the University of
honorary doctorate
Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. Her
degree certificate
entrepreneurial activities include starting during a ceremony
StatSystems, a medical device company; in his honor.
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, a publicly held
biotechnology company; and Pondview
On December 17, 2007, North American Statistical Association and
Associates, a high-tech consulting firm.
Carolina State University bestowed the American Mathematical Society.
She is a Fellow of the American Statistical
upon David Blackwell—a renowned He received the John von Neumann
Association and American Society for
statistician and mathematician—an Theory Prize from the Operations
Quality. She has published widely in statis-
honorary doctorate degree. Research Society of America in 1979
tical, clinical, and managed care journals on
The first African American to be for his work in dynamic program-
statistical issues in meta-analysis, data min-
inducted into the National Academy ming and the Fisher Award from the
ing, clinical and biological research meth-
of Sciences in 1965, Blackwell’s most Committee of Presidents of Statistical
odology, and statistical computing.
well-known contribution to the world Societies in 1986.
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
of statistics is the Rao-Blackwell The diploma was presented to
research program is an annual assessment of
Theorem, which establishes an Blackwell in person on January 6,
the national level of entrepreneurial activ-
approach for finding the best unbiased 2008, during a Sunday brunch cer-
ity. London Business School and Babson
estimator. He is a coauthor of Theory emony in Berkeley. A number of people
College initiated the project in 1999 with
of Games and Statistical Decisions and close to Blackwell attended, and NC
10 countries and expanded to 42 countries
has published more than 80 publica- State faculty member Sastry Pantula
by 2006. For more information, visit www.
tions and received a dozen honorary conveyed congratulations to Blackwell
gemconsortium.org.
doctoral degrees. from Chancellor James Oblinger, Dean
In 1954, he joined the statistics Daniel Solomon, and other statistics fac-
Francis X. Diebold
faculty at the University of California- ulty members from NC State. Blackwell
Berkeley, chairing the statistics depart- recalled how he got into the field of
ASA Fellow Francis X. Diebold was recently
ment for four years and advising more statistics: “I thought I had an excellent
named Joseph M. Cohen Term Professor of
than 50 doctoral students before retiring counter example to a theorem presented
Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
in 1989. Blackwell has served as presi- by Abe Girshick. My discussions with
Diebold is an expert in econometrics,
dent of the Institute of Mathematical him led to a long-term collaboration
forecasting, finance, and macroeconom-
Statistics, the International Association and an interest in statistics.” He encour-
ics. He has published more than 100 arti-
for Statistics in Physical Sciences, and aged everyone to take chances because
cles and 10 books, including the leading
the Bernoulli Society. He also has some errors and accidents may lead to
text, Elements of Forecasting. He has served
served as the vice president of the great things.
on the editorial boards of numerous jour-
nals, including Econometrica and Review of
Economics and Statistics.
Governors of the Federal Reserve System. brokerage firm J. M. Cohen & Co. LLC
Diebold is an elected fellow of the
Diebold is codirector of the Financial and a past member of the SAS Economics
Econometric Society and the recipient of
Institutions Center and Faculty Research Visiting Committee.
Sloan, Guggenheim, and Humboldt awards,
Associate at the National Bureau of Economic
as well as his department’s Kravis Award
Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Editor’s note: Reprinted with per-
for Outstanding Teaching. From 1986 to
Joseph Cohen established this chair in
mission from Almanac, University of
1989, he served as an economist under Paul
1990 to recognize a distinguished scholar in
Pennsylvania, Volume 54, No. 19, January
Volcker and Alan Greenspan at the Board of
economics. He is the chair of the New York
30, 2008.
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