J. Michael HarrisonJ. Michael Harrison earned degrees in industrial engineering and operations research before joining the faculty of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he served for 43 years. His research concerns stochastic models in business an engineering, including mathematical finance and processing network theory. His previous books include Brownian Models of Performance and Control (2013). Professor Harrison has been honored by INFORMS with its Expository Writing Award (1998), the Lanchester Prize for best research publication (2001), and the John von Neumann Theory Prize (2004); he was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2008. Read More Read Less