If you want to solve a problem, strip the problem of nonessentials, simplify, and specialize without sacrificing its core. This book highlights this spirit using concrete, specific, simple examples pertaining to business analytics. Offering examples in thorough detail and designed to illuminate topics that often ramify to great complexity in practice, it associates concepts through generalizations and refers the interested to further sources. This book establishes a national syllabus for an emerging first course at an MBA level in Business Analytics.