Panos Kouvelis

Senior Associate Dean and Director of Executive Programs; Director of The Boeing Center for Technology, Information, and Manufacturing; Emerson Distinguished Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management

Areas of Expertise:

International Business; Management Science - Decision Analysis; Management Science - Math Programming; Management Strategy; Operations & Manufacturing Management; Operations & Manufacturing Management - Supply Chain Management; Technology Management

Research interests:

Global supply chain management, operations and finance interfaces, risk management in supply chains, commodity risk management, operations strategy, managing the innovation process, marketing/manufacturing interfaces, product line design, lean manufacturing, inventory control, operations planning, project management, cyclic scheduling, manufacturing system design, management science and optimization.

Selected Publications:

To view publications by this professor, visit the Publications and Working Papers section of our site.

• "Adoption of cost reducing technology by asymmetric duopolists in a stochastically evolving market," IIE Transactions, Issue (forthcoming), with C. Chambers, and P. Su, 2008
• "Flexible Backup supply and the Management of Lead Time Uncertainty," Prod Oper Manag (forthcoming), with J. Li, 2008
• "Global facility network design with responsive pricing," Manufacturing Service Operations Management, Issue (first review), with L. Dong, and P. Su, 2008
• "Supplier behavior and the effectiveness of coordinating contracts," Management Science, Issue (first review), with J. Niederhoff, 2008
• "Sourcing decisions in the presence of yield and demand uncertainty," with J. Li, working paper
• "Inventory management and financial hedging of storable commodities," with Q. Ding, and R. Li, working paper
• "Market-based supply chain coordination by matching suppliers cost structures with buyers' order profiles ." Management Science, Issue (forthcoming), with B. Chen, and Y. Xia Cai, 2008

Academic/professional activities:

Associate Editor: Decision Sciences
Senior Editor: Flexible Services and Manufacturing
Co-Editor, Management Science, special Issue: Interfaces of Operations and Finance
Associate Editor: Management Science on Interdisciplinary Research
Associate Editor: Management Science on Supply Chain Management
Senior Editor: Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Associate Editor: Operations Research
Department Editor: Production & Operations Management on Manufacturing Operations
Department Editor, IIE Transactions: Project Selection, Coordination and Management
Department Editor, IIE Transactions: Supply Chains/Production-Inventory Systems

Awards/honors:

M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, Awarded by the Editor of M&SOM for exceptional reviewing services, 2005
EMBA Reid Teaching Award, Olin School of Business, Washington University, 2003
Best Research Paper Award, IIE Transactions on Operations Engineering, 2000
Reid MBA Teaching Award, 1998, 2000
EM3 Program Teaching Award, 1998, 1999
Reid Teaching Awards, Olin School of Business, Washington University, 1998 and 2000
M&O Classes I, II, III and V Teaching Awards, 1998 - 2002
Ranked as the 7th most productive researcher of production and operations management in U.S. business schools from 1989-1993