John Little 221614 190958193 2008-02-12T19:17:56Z Geniac 1839933 removed excessive wikilinks {{otheruses}} '''John D. C. Little''' is an [[Institute Professor]] and the Chair Management Science at the [[MIT Sloan School of Management]]. He formed the [[Little's law]] in 1961. It states: "The average number of customers in a system (over some interval) is equal to their average arrival rate, multiplied by their average time in the system." A corollary has been added: "The average time in the system is equal to the average time in queue plus the average time it takes to receive service." Prof. Little is considered to be a founder of [[marketing]] science. ==External links== *http://www.informs.org/Prizes/whoisLittle.html *http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+UNID/BF56C8764A7EB1048525693700546E44?opendocument *[http://sloancf.mit.edu/vpf/popup-if.cfm?in_spseqno=69&co_list=F Little's bio at MIT Sloan] {{DEFAULTSORT:Little, John}} [[Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:Living people]] {{US-academic-bio-stub}}