For the Optimization Catalyst podcast (listen here) Steve spoke with Solange Gelman, Director of IT Application Development and Airport Operations Technologies at United Airlines, and David O’Keefe, head of Alliances America at Gurobi. Following are lightly edited excerpts. David: Solange, you oversee both passenger-facing and operational technologies at United Airlines. Could you give us a […]
For the Optimization Catalyst podcast (listen here) Steve spoke with Suzay Passari, Head of Innovation and Transportation at UPS, and David O’Keefe, head of Alliances America at Gurobi. Following are lightly edited excerpts. Sunzay noted that UPS, a 118-year-old company, presents unique challenges and opportunities for transformation due to its established legacy in technology, processes, […]
The Optimization Edge: Reinventing Decision Making to Maximize All Your Company’s Assets by Steve Sashihara (available on Amazon Kindle) was translated in 2025 into Mongolian by Dr. Bolor Jargalsaikhan, an optimization practitioner and CEO of Data Deus, based in Ulaanbaatar. View scenes from the launch party here. Bolor kindly answered the following questions. What […]
Steve has recently conducted webinars for Gurobi about best practices in applied optimization. Following are excerpts from the Q&A sessions. Question: How do you use optimization project valuation frameworks and practices effectively for strategic planning? Steve: As you suggest, it isn’t easy to measure impact in strategic planning. One approach is to build a tool […]
Following are excerpts from Steve’s Jan. 25 webinar hosted by Gurobi Optimization. The AI optimization success lifecycle—from the charter to the harvest—represents a wonderful world. However, today we will get away from the “wonderful” and talk about what really happens in the field. Often, colleagues and I see that a chasm forms between the early […]
Steve recently gave a guest lecture to Professor Shruti Sharma’s introductory class on optimization for graduate students at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, in the Technology Management and Innovation Department. Following are lightly edited excerpts. Scalable “Scalable” is something that everyone your age has heard a bunch of times. For my generation and older, it […]
Following are lightly edited excerpts from Steve’s recent presentation in a Gurobi Optimization webinar. If optimization is so powerful, why do top executives need convincing to invest in it? Well, they are constantly pitched, by internal colleagues and external advisors, to spend money in many different areas. They learn to say no to anything that […]
In manufacturing, there is often a competition between mass production and custom artisanship: produce vast quantities of product at low cost or produce it in tiny amounts at high fit. Can you achieve low unit cost and scalability from mass production, and the high necessary fit for each consumer from custom artisanship? Yes, […]
Following is an excerpt from Steve’s 3/31 presentation to transportation and logistics executives, hosted by Stifel’s equity research group. There are rail executives who talk about disruption because, starting around 2011, the railroads started to lose massive market share to trucking. The gap is presently widening. If rail transportation costs less and improves supply chain […]
On April 6, Steve Sashihara returned to Road Dog Trucking Radio to discuss trucking and emerging technology. Following are excerpts of his conversation with host Mark Willis. Mark Willis: It’s great to welcome back Steve Sashihara with Princeton Consultants. Steve Sashihara: Thanks, Mark. Great to be on. Every year, we do a survey with transportation executives on what’s […]
