M. Gray Hunter

Dr. M. Gray Hunter is a Senior Lecturer of Business Analytics and Assistant Director of the HSLopez School of Business Analytics at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management. After earning his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Kentucky in 2017, he joined Eller's Economics department before helping build out the college's newly established business analytics programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, where he has served in academic and program leadership roles spanning two campuses.

A three-time recipient of Eller's Student's Choice Award for outstanding faculty in large-lecture courses, Dr. Hunter specializes in making complex analytical concepts accessible to students across statistics, business analytics, data visualization, and economics. His teaching reaches audiences from first-year undergraduates to full-time and executive MBA candidates, and his work has been recognized with honors including the Suzanne Cummins Faculty Engagement Award and a feature from Tableau on instilling data skills in the next generation of business leaders. He is the author of the undergraduate textbook Practical Analytics for Business (Kendall Hunt, 2019) and serves as an editor for the Journal of Economics Teaching.

His research focuses on economic education, the economics of education, and labor and public economics, with particular emphasis on students' educational expectations and workforce preparedness. His current work examines how large language models can strengthen undergraduate statistical writing, research accepted for presentation at the 12th International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS-12).

Courses

• BNAD/N 277 Analytical Methods in Business (25 Sections)
• MGMT/BNAD 562 Applied Business Statistics for FT MBAs and Executive MBAs (10 Sections)
• BNAD 515C/BNAN 525 Statistical Foundations of Business Analytics (5 Sections)
• BNAD 596B Economic and Business Reasoning with Data for PMBA (3 Sections)
• MIS 561 Data Visualization (2 Sections)
• MIS 502 Technical Foundations of Business Analytics – Statistics Portion of MSBA (2 Sections)
• ECON 361 Intermediate Microeconomics for Economics Majors (1 Section)
• MGMT 359 The Economics of Sports (1 Section – Abroad)
• ECON 330 Macroeconomic and Global Institutions and Policy (1 Section)
• ECON 150C An Economic Perspective (1 Section)