Edward J. Lusk, MBA, MA, PhD, CPA is Emeritus Professor of Statistics: The Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. USA & Emeritus Chair in Economics & Business Administration at the Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg Germany & Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the State University of New York (SUNY), College of Business and Economics Plattsburgh, New York. He has also taught in China at the Shanxi University of Finance and Economics, Taiyuan, PRC, The Shanghai Finance University, Shanghai, PRC and the Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand.
He has published more than 250 articles in peer reviewed journals and texts including: Three Articles in The New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer; Hospice; Nursing Economics; The Public Opinion Quarterly; Omega; The Accounting Review; Journal of Political Economy; Statistics and Probability; American Statistician; Management Science; Journal of the Operational Research Society; and the International Journal of Forecasting.
School of Business and Economics
Emeritus Department of Accounting
2006 - Present
Faculty of Economics and Management
Emeritus Professorship in Business Administration
2001 - 2006
The Wharton School
Emeritus Department of Statistics
2001 - Present
The Wharton School
Professor, Departments of Statistics, Social Systems Sciences, Operations Research, Health Care Systems, and Accounting
1972 - 2000
The Wharton School and The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP)
Director of Biostatistics
The Center for Advancing Care in Serious Illness
1997 – 2000
The Cancer Center, HUP
1979 – 1996
Informational Aspects of Market Response, Incentive System's Calibration, and Decision Support Systems creation
Governmental Accounting, AIS, Auditing
PhD, Northwestern University, Kellogg School
Doctoral Studies in Business & Economics
1972
MA, The University of Pennsylvania
Regional Science
1974
MBA, DePaul University
Accounting
1967
B.Sc., The University of Arizona
The Eller School
Accounting
1964
CPA, State of Illinois
Certificate: 10,048, 1966
Registered Public Accountant
Illinois Certificate: 239.026420
Current Illinois Society CPAs
Registered License: 239.026420
Vetting Client Datasets Using an Audit Decision Support System: An Enhancement in Creating Audit-Evidence document idC14
authorsGaber, M. & Lusk, E. (2021)
Auditing Ecosystem and Strategic Accounting in the Digital Era. Contributions to Finance and Accounting
editorsAksoy, T. & Hacioglu, U.
ISBN: 978-3- 030-72628-7
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72628-7_11
Advanced Directives and Hospice Care: Cost Savers at the End document idC13
authorsLusk, E., Selander, N., & Halperin, M. (2013)
Our Journey to the End ABC-CLIO
editorStaudt, C.
Santa Barbara, CA
Designing Effective Forecasting Decision Support Systems: Aligning Task Complexity and Technology Support document idC12
authorsAdya, M. & Lusk, E. (2013)
Decision Support Systems, InTech Open Access
editorChiang, J.
ISBN: 978-953-51-0799-6
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/C12.pdf
Nursing Economic$, Special Edition: How Can We Afford to Die? document idC11
Vol. 30(3), May/June 2012
editorsLusk, E. & Kovner, C.
This special edition is produced as a political change white paper for integrating hospice and palliative care as a means of alleviating the cost pressures at the end of life which consume 25-30% of the total federal budget allocated to healthcare in the USA.
A Lean Balanced Scorecard Using the Delphi Process: Enhancements for Decision Making document idC10
authorsLee, C.-H., Lusk, E., & Halperin, M. (2011)
Efficient Decision Support Systems: Practice and Challenges: From Current to Future, InTech: Open Access
editorChiang, J.
ISBN 978-953-307-441-2
The Innovest Ratings of Chinese Organizations: A Benchmarked Analysis document idC9
AuthorLusk, E. (2008)
China Information Technology, London: Springer
editorsOrdóñez de Pablos, P. & Lytras, M. D.
An Investigation of the Whistle-blower-Insider Trading Connection: Evaluation and Recommendations document iddocument idC8
authorsLusk, E. & Halperin, M. (2008)
Insider Trading, London: Chapman-Hall/Routledge
editorsAli, P. & Gregoriou, G.
BookBuilding, Overpricing, The Quite Period and Underpricing document idC7
AuthorLusk, E. (2008)
The Encyclopedia of Alternative Investments, London: Chapman-Hall/Routledge
editorGregoriou, G.
Recommendations for the Development of a European Venture Capital Regulatory Corpus: Lessons from the USA document idC6
authorsLusk, E., Schmidt, G., & Halperin, M. (2006)
Venture Capital in Europe, 192-213, New York: Quantitative Finance Series: Elservier
editorsGregoriou, G., Kooli, M., & Kraeussl, R.
Geschlechtsspezifische Wirkung von Anreizsystemen? document idC5
authorsWolff, B., Lusk, E., Rehu, M., & Li, F. (2006)
Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Geschlechterforschung – Verortung geschlechtskonstitutierender (Re)Produktionsprozesse zur Standortbestimmung in Betriebswirtschaftlehre, 181-209, Peter Lang: Frankfurt
editorBendl, R.
Internationalisierung und Mitarbeitervergütung – Oder: Wie motiviert man Mitarbeiter an unterschiedlichen Standorten? document idC4
authorsWolff, B., Lusk, E., & Rehu, M. (2005)
Unternehmenserfolg in internationalen Wettbewerb – Strategie, Steuerung und Struktur, Schäffer-Poeschel: Stuttgart, 245-273
editorsBrandt, W. & Picot, A.
A Statistical Analysis of Beckett's Musical Metaphors document idC3
authorsBelhadjali, M. & Lusk, E. (1999)
Samuel Beckett and the Arts Music, Visual Arts, and Non-Print Media, 255-266, New York: Garland Publishing
editorsOppenheim, L.
The Analysis of the Consistency Measure of the Eigenvalue Priority Model: A Possibility Perspective document idC2
authorsLusk, E. & Neves, J. (1985)
Management Decision Support System in Fuzzy Set and Possibility Theory, 101-109, Germany: Verlag/Rhineland
editorsKacprzyk, J. & Yager, R.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Management-Decision-Support-Systems-Possibility/dp/3885851431
Financial and Managerial Control: A Health Care Perspective document idC1
authorsLusk, E. & Gannon-Lusk, J. (1978)
Germantown, MD: Aspen Systems Corporation
ISBN: 0-89443-036-x
Simple Exponential Smoothing: An Overlooked Transformation for Improving Forecasting Acuity document id236
authorsBelhadjali, M. & Lusk, E. (2026)
International Journal of Management and Economics Invention, 12, 5821-5833
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/236.pdf
https://doi.org/10.47191/ijmei/v12i7.07
A Vetting of the Acuity of the Bloomberg One-Period-Ahead Forecasts document id235
authorsBelhadjali, M., Leon, D., & Lusk, E. (2026)
International Journal of Economics, Business and Management Research, 10, 80-104
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/235.pdf
https://doi.org/10.51505/IJEBMR.2026.10705
The Ubiquitous ln-Transformation in Forecasting: It Is More Complicated Than Advertised! document id234
authorsBelhadjali, M., Gaber, M., & Lusk, E. (2026)
International Journal of Financial Research, 17, 70-89
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/234.pdf
Destabilized Global Security Markets: Coping with Their Forecasting Consequences document id233
authorsBelhadjali, M. & Lusk, E. (2025)
International Journal of Economics, Commerce and Management, 13, 434-453
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/233.pdf
The RAE FM[Triage] Protocol: Selection Among Forecasting Model Candidates document id232
authorsBelhadjali, M. & Lusk, E. (2025)
European Journal of Science, Innovation and Technology, 5, 356-372
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/232.pdf
Probing the Nature of Inferential Decisions: Fine-Tuning the False Negative Error [β-Risk%] document id231
authorsBelhadjali, M. & Lusk, E. (2025)
European Journal of Business and Management Research, 10, 151-159
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/231.pdf
ISS Corporate Governance Risk Profiling: Testing the Caretaker Persona document id230
authorsLee, C-H. & Lusk, E. (2024)
International Journal Business Ecosystem & Strategy, 5, 157-173
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/230.pdf
Vetting the Extrapolation Caution of Tamhane & Dunlop: A Time Series Forecasting Analysis document id229
authorsBelhadjali, M. & Lusk, E. (2024)
Archives of Business Research, 11, 22-39
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/229.pdf
Carvalho-Transformations: A Robustness Analysis in the Forecasting Domain document id228
authorsHeilig, F., Holton, G., & Lusk, E. (2024)
Journal of Economics and Technology Research, 5, 86-114
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/228.pdf
The Extrapolations in Forecasting: A Function of Associational-Effects? document id227
authorsHolton, G. & Lusk, E. (2024)
World Journal of Business Research, 4, 1-16
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/227.pdf
http://www.stslpress.org/journal/journalArticle?id=146
Data Measures Selection and Factor Profiling: An Illustration of Data-Mining Screens document id226
authorsGaber, M. & Lusk, E. (2023)
Accounting and Finance Research, 12, 69-88
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/226.pdf
Vetting the Makridakis Dataset: Further Indications of the Robustness of the Rule Based Forecasting Model document id225
authorsHeilig, F. & Lusk, E. (2023)
European Journal of Science, Innovation and Technology, 4, 60-84
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/225.pdf
https://ejsit-journal.com/index.php/ejsit/article/view/242
Alignment Vetting of Bloomberg's ISS: QualityScore [GQS™]: Frequency of Provision of ESG & Related Disclosure document id224
authorsLee, C.-H., Lusk, E., Naaman, K., & Omorogbe-Akpata, O.(2022)
Scores International Journal of Economics and Finance, 14, 1-15
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/224.pdf
Inferential Decision Support Systems: Pedagogic Enhancements for Delivering Statistical-components in an Auditing Course document id223
authorLusk, E. (2022)
International Journal of Business & Management Studies, 3, 1-17
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/223.pdf
A Conditioned Forecasting Model: A-priori Screening Validation Testing document id222
authorsHeilig, F. & Lusk, E. (2022)
International Business Research, 15, 63-77
https://edwardlusk.com/contributions/222.pdf
https://doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v15n5p63
