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Chakraborty’s remarkable story shapes MS BAnDS program from founding to his retirement

Dr. Goutam Chakraborty, the founding director of OSU’s acclaimed Master’s in Business Analytics and Data Science program, is retiring after 35 years in the Spears School of Business. From a refugee colony to a professorship, Chakraborty’s
Chakraborty’s remarkable story shapes MS BAnDS program from founding to his retirement
Chakraborty’s remarkable story shapes MS BAnDS program from founding to his retirement

Tue, Apr 28, 2026

Dr. Goutam Chakraborty, the founding director of OSU’s acclaimed Master’s in Business Analytics and Data Science program, is retiring after 35 years in the Spears School of Business. From a refugee colony to a professorship, Chakraborty’s

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Baldwin blazes path for MIS students to research health, human performance at OSU

Tue, Jan 27, 2026

Kyler Baldwin, an MIS graduate and MS BAnDS student at OSU, forged a unique partnership between Spears Business and HPNRI. He applies his data analytics skills to the health and human performance domain, preparing to present his research abstract at

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Starring Spears: OSU business students shine in musical while pursuing data-driven degrees

Mon, Nov 24, 2025

The lead actors in a musical typically aren't business students in data-driven fields, but Andi Reuter and Bennett Frohock are as artistic as they are analytical. These well-rounded Spears School of Business students recently starred in a community

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Great lakes: MS BAnDS students build data lake to advance chiropractic research

Thu, Nov 13, 2025

Students in OSU's Master's in Business Analytics and Data Science program built a data lake and a user-friendly website for chiropractic researchers, enabling surveys to guide the future of chiropractic care. This is an example of the real-world

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MS BAnDS students win new Dominican Republic-based retail competition

Fri, Oct 24, 2025

A team of four Spears School of Business MS BAnDS students won in the marketing category at the Alpha Ramos Hackathon, a new competition based in the Dominican Republic. The students overcame technology and language barriers to secure the victory,

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OSU business analytics teams place 1st, 2nd at University of South Carolina competition

Tue, Feb 11, 2025

Students from the master's in business analytics and data science (MS BAnDS) program at OSU won first and second place in the University of South Carolina's Big Data Health Science Student Case Competition, continuing an outstanding school year for

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MS BAnDS students crowned national champions at Data 4 Good competition

Tue, Nov 26, 2024

Srikaran Anand, Edgar Castillo Garza, Bennett Frohock and Josias Hernandez Perez secured a $5,000 cash prize in the Data 4 Good Case Competition finals Nov. 23 at Purdue University.

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Larson selected to don the orange gown for Spears

Fri, May 3, 2024

Evelyn Larson was selected as the orange gown recipient for the Spears School of Business for spring 2024.

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Team of Spears students place third at national competition

Wed, Nov 15, 2023

A team of four students in the masters in business analytics and data science program (MS BAnDS) in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University recently placed in the top three in the annual Humana-Mays Analytics Case Competition.

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Two OSU teams make top 5 of business analytics competition

Wed, Nov 1, 2023

Two business analytics teams from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University have made it into the top five of the 2023 Humana Mays Analytics Case Competition hosted by Texas A&M University.

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