EDUCATION:
After obtaining his AB from UC Berkeley with a double major in economics and statistics, Professor Lippman attended Stanford where he received an MS in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Operations Research. After finishing his Ph.D. dissertation at Stanford, he began teaching at UCLA at the age of 23. He received tenure at the age of 27, making him the youngest faculty member to ever receive tenure at The Anderson School.

UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE:
Professor Lippman has served on the most important committees at UCLA, including the Graduate Council and the Committee on Academic Personnel (the committee which oversees all appointments and promotions on the UCLA campus). In addition to major committee service, he also has assumed major administrative roles. On three different occasions he has served as Vice-Chairman of the Department at The Anderson School, a one department school. He directed the Doctoral program in 1975-78. Deja vu: since July 1995 he is again serving as Vice-Dean and Director of the Doctoral Program.

RESEARCH:
Professor Lippman's research interests include traditional Management Science/Operations Research topics such as dynamic programming, queueing optimization, inventory theory, and game theory. However, he is best known for his work in the Economics of Search. His paper,

"The Economics of Job Search: A Survey, (Parts I & II)," Economic Inquiry, 14 (1976), 155-189
and 347-368,

is the standard reference in the field and has received hundreds of citations.

He has published three books on statistics, the economics of search, and the economics of information. Amongst some 60 research articles are a large number of papers on industrial organization, the economics of R&D, and microeconomic theory. His most recent papers include two published in 1995:

"Optimal Investment Selection with a Multitude of Projects," Econometrica, 63 (1995), 1231-1240
and
"Optimal Selling Institutions: Auctions versus Sequential Search," Economic Inquiry, 33 (1995), 1-23.

The first of these was published in Econometrica, the pre-eminent economics journal. The second
received the Best Article Award for 1995 at Economic Inquiry.

TEACHING:
After many years teaching statistics, stochastic processes, finance, and individual decision-making, Professor Lippman switched gears in 1993 and began studying and teaching Negotiations Analysis. His audiences for this subject include US and foreign executives, FEMBAs, full time MBAs, and undergraduates.