Case Study: Pace University Lubin School of Business standardizes Excel-based MBA analytics and boosts decision-making with Palisade's StatTools and DecisionTools Suite

Pace University Adopts StatTools and the DecisionTools Suite

Pace University Lubin School of Business combined its MBA-level Statistics and Operations Research courses and needed a new textbook and software that worked inside Microsoft Excel. They selected the Duxbury Press textbook bundled with StatTools and the DecisionTools Suite from Palisade to provide an Excel-native statistical and decision‑analysis platform for teaching operations research and business analytics.

Palisade’s StatTools and DecisionTools Suite were deployed as the course software, with a special student edition and two‑year license included with the textbook, giving students and administrators a convenient, cost‑effective solution. Instructors report students find StatTools easy to learn and use, and the program supports robust analysis in class; Lubin’s part‑time MBA program has continued to rise in rankings (moving to 17th in U.S. News & World Report’s 2006 list), reflecting the school’s strengthening analytics curriculum.

Pace University Lubin School of Business

Jack Yurkiewicz

Professor of Management Science