Elliot Bendoly
Professor of Operations Management, Editor and Author
📋 Biography
Dr. Bendoly is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Operations Management, and Fisher College of Business Distinguished Professor of Management Sciences, at the Ohio State University. In 2024, his research was listed in the top-10 of most influential articles published in the 30-year history of the POM Journal, and in 2025 the same outlet listed him among the top 15 most prolific top-tier-journal scholars in Operations Management. He is the 2025 recipient of the OSU Pace Setters Service award, the 2015 OM Distinguished Scholar (Academy of Management), recipient of Emory University's 2014 Crystal Apple Award for undergraduate teaching and former Associate Dean of Undergraduate Students and Programs. He currently serves as the co-Director of the Specialized Masters in Analytics program. He also a contributing faculty member of the Sustainability Institute, Translational Data Analytics Institute and the International Institute for Analytics, and serves as Special Advisor to the COO Forum.
✨ High-Impact Contributions 2
The Blackbelt Ribbon (www.blackbelt-apps.com) is a freeware open source add-in that provides a host of data acquisition, visualization and analysis tools and unique UDFs, packaged for simple access and use. It represents a collaboration with colleagues and my former students who are now Blackbelts themselves (credit shared on the public site). The tool is in continuous development, with the most recent version always available on the site, along with free documentation and videos for installation and use. The associated PDF showcases the most recent shape sets for chloropleths / heatmapping, along with video shorts for UDFs.
A forum and job board focusing on issues and innovations in the practical use of MS Excel for analysis, data visualization and ultimately decision support. Anyone may join, beginners and those experienced alike. All members are encouraged to post questions, answers and innovative tactics / tricks / tips that they've encountered in using Excel.