To navigate through the rapids of rapid change, Trick, an associate professor of industrial administration, can easily tap a research background that spans both domestic and international experience. He did postdoctoral operations research work in Bonn, Germany between 1988-89. He also has done extensive research in scheduling and network algorithms. Perhaps his biggest research slam dunk comes with a recent three-year contract to schedule all the men's and women's basketball games for nine teams of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Trick also is working on a pilot project to secure all the scheduling rights to major league baseball.
Trick is tenacious.
He doesn't promise results, he gets them. And he treats every challenge as an opportunity in work clothes. This background puts him in a good position to match the expertise of our faculty with the needs of the Carnegie Bosch Institute. As editor of a popular on-line information service, Trick says he wants to see what kind of information is really available on international management and how companies can better use the Internet. I want to find the balance between what our faculty has to offer and what the Carnegie Bosch Institute needs.