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FACULTY AND RESEARCH

At Olin, faculty members in Operations and Manufacturing Management have strong engineering backgrounds. Their research investigates a broad spectrum of issues, especially areas with strategic and tactical implications. Recently, the emphasis has focused on exciting issues in supply chain management including global supply chain design; vendor-managed inventory practices; collaborative forecasting; sourcing contracts; dynamic pricing and revenue management; marketing/operations interfaces; information distortion and "bullwhip" effects; information technology uses for improved supply chain performance; inventory management; design and control of queuing systems; and time-based competition and mass customization.

The Operations and Manufacturing Management group focuses its research efforts using quantitative models and analysis to address issues dealing with real-life problems in industry and service organizations. PhD students benefit from the close collaboration that exists in both teaching and research at Olin.

Faculty research has appeared in a variety of leading journals including:

Management Science
Operations Research
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Production and Operations Management

FACULTY MEMBERS*

Yossi Aviv
Dan Broida Professor of Operations & Manufacturing Management
PhD, Columbia University
Production and operations management,
logistics and distribution systems, supply
chain management, decision analysis
and stochastic processes

Lingxiu Dong
Associate Professor of Operations & Manufacturing Management
PhD, Stanford University
Operations Management, production and distribution systems, supply chain management, information in supply chains

Amr Farahat
Assistant Professor of Operations & Manufacturing Management
PhD, Cornell University
Pricing and inventory, optimization with a focus on differentiated products

Panos Kouvelis
Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations & Manufacturing Management; Director, The Boeing Center for Technology, Information Manufacturing Management; and Senior Associate Dean & Director of Executive Programs
PhD, Stanford University
International Operations, supply chain management, marketing/manufacturing interfaces, real options applications, economics of operations, integrated risk management in operations

Nan Yang
Assistant Professor of Operations & Manufacturing Management
PhD, Columbia University
Supply risks in supply chain management, inventory management, competition in supply chain management

Danko Turcic
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
PhD, Case Western Reserve University
Interface of operations management and finance, supply chain management, applied game theory

Fuqiang Zhang
Associate Professor of Operations & Manufacturing Management
PhD, University of Pennsylvania Outsourcing, procurement, supply chain contracting, customer-oriented operations models

*See the faculty directory for visiting professors and adjunct faculty.
See Operations and Manufacturing Management Working Papers.