He earned a BS in Civil Engineering at North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. in Business Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Pinder's research interests include, business analytics, revenue management, stochastic optimization, nonlinear dynamical systems, resource allocation, and inventory management models. He has published articles in numerous journals including: Decision Sciences, Journal of Operations Management, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Business and Economics, and Managerial and Decision Economics. He has received more than a dozen teaching awards and has 25 years of teaching and industry consulting experience.