INFORMATION SYSTEMS & DECISION SCIENCES

Amdetsion Kidane, DBA
Associate Professor
Room 441
Email:  akidane@howard.edu
           

Dr. Amdetsion Kidane joined the Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences in 1978, after serving as Assistant Professor at the School of Business Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and at the Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama.  His primary areas of interest include:  Minority-owned businesses:  their Role in the Economy and Factors that Impact their Performance.  Kidane was awarded African-American Institute Scholar, and US-AID Scholar.  He has taught:  Statistics, Quantitative Business Analysis, Production and Operations Management, Data Analysis, Simulation, System Analysis and Design, and Programming.  Kidane holds a DBA in Management Science from the University of Colorado, Boulder, an MSBA in Business Statistics from the University of Denver, and a BS in Mathematics from Haile Selassie I University, Addis Ababa, Ethipia.