Accomplishments
In the news
MSCM Ranks Among Top Programs in the Country (Ross Staff News)
Michigan's Price Hikes Some of the Worst in the Country (Detroit Free Press)
Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Preparedness and Response (National Academy of Medicine)
How a Vial of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Travels from a Lab in Missouri to an Arm in Bangladesh (The Conversation)
The U.S. is Discarding Millions of Covid Vaccines. One Cause: Multip-does Vials (NBC News)
Until 2023? Parts Shortage Will Keep Auto Prices Sky-High (AP News)
Global Health Supply Chains Face Unprecedented Stresses in Time of Unprecedented Need (The University Record, University of Michigan)
U-M Researchers Examine Ways to Scale Up COVID-19 Testing (The University Record, University of Michigan)
Fewer Products, Localized Production - Companies Seek Supply-Chain Solutions (The Wall Street Journal)
The Big "Unlock" What Next? (Supply Chain and Sustainability Panel: What Impact on Supply Chain Management will COVID-19 have from an Environmental Perspective?)
Lessons Learned (Michigan Alumnus Magazine)
The Coronavirus' Impact on Global Supply Chains (NPR On Point Show)
Covid-19 Shocks Food Supply Chain, Spurs Creativity and Search for Resiliency (The University Record, University of Michigan)
How Covid-19 Could Redefine Labor in America (CNN Business)
Stateside: Coronavirus Affect on Michigan Economy (Michigan Radio NPR)
A Business Prescription for Healthcare (Dividend)
Food Safety is a Good Business (Quality Assurance & Food Safety)
Lessons from Target Canada (www.noodls.com, RTIA)
US Foods Earn Food and Safety Awards (The Packer)
Positive Business + Bottom Line (Dividend)
The Crystal Ball: B-Schools Acknowledge Challenges, Put Positive Shine on 2022 (Poets & Quants)
To Stop Food Waste, We Need to Confront Our Food Anxiety (Bon Appetit)
A Win-Win Solution in Procurement (The Hindu)
What Are You Thinking About (Dividend)
Best 40 Under 40 (Poets and Quants)
Beaumont, Henry Ford hospitals paid bonuses before COVID-19 - then got a taxpayer bailout (Detroit Free Press)
Detroit Hospitals are Laying Off Workers by the Hundreds Even as Pandemic Rages (Detroit Free Press)
Positive Business and Wage Inequality (Wisconsin Public Radio)
Positive Business (Poets and Quants)
Why Social Responsibility Needs to be More than Just a Fad (Fast Company)
(Re)Made in America (Dividend)
New Michigan Ross Online MBA and how Business Schools are Developing New Programs for Nontraditional Students (Educational Drive)
US Manufacturing Employment (Manufacturing Engineering)
Machinery Show Highlights China's Changing Manufacturing (Manufacturing Engineering)
(Re)Made in America (Dividend)
Charles Best Knows What Teachers Need (The Wall Street Journal)
Convention Centers, Museums Become Classrooms Amid Pandemic (The Associated Press)
Many School Buildings Can't Safely Reopen Right Now. Here's Why (Fast Company)
The Transition to Hybrid Work is About Working Smarter - Not Harder (The Wall Street Journal)
Every $1 spent on State IT saves $3.50 (RTIA)
On the Move Vote-selling (The Inquirer)
Charles Best Knows What Teachers Need (The Wall Street Journal)
Come Fly With Me -- At the Right Price (RTIA)
From Black Friday to Cyber November, The Changing Face of Holiday Consumerism (RTIA)
Does the Rustbelt have a Future (Society of Business Writers and Editors, LinkedIn, "Phys. Org", RTIA)
Cass Community Social Services (Craig Fahle radio show)
Entrepreneurial Student Teams (Small Business Opportunities)
Student Startups (The Cutting Edge)
Random Coffees (University Record)
How to think about MOOCS (EDUCAUSE)
Will a New Study on Menthol Cigarettes' Harm to Black Americans Finally Push the FDA to Act? (Slate)
How to Boost Your Crowdfunding Success (Michigan News)
Realistic Crowdfunding Goals Inspire Backer Confidence (Business News Daily)
Warehouse Protocols Must Change with COVID-19; Vital Suggestions (International Business Times)
Charles Best Knows What Teachers Need (The Wall Street Journal)
Coronavirus is Latest Blow to Construction Projects Already Dealing with Labor Cost Increases (Crain's Detroit Business)
Associate Deanship
Izak Duenyas: Associate Dean for Executive Programs
InstituTe, center, & Initiative directors
Hyun-soo Ahn: Faculty Co-Director, Tauber Institute for Global Operations
Ravi Anupindi: Board Member, Fair Labor Association
Committee Member, Ross Faculty Council for One-Year Masters Programs
Board Member, Board on Global Health of the National Academics of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Izak Duenyas: Faculty Director, Executive MBA Program
Committee Member, Ross Executive Committee
Committee Member, Ross Faculty Council for Executive Programs
Wally Hopp: Faculty Director, Online MBA Program
Roman Kapuscinski: Ross Executive Committee Member
Samantha Keppler: Committee Member, Ross DEI Curriculum Task Force
M.S. Krishnan: Faculty Director, India Initiatives
Faculty Director, Business + Tech Initiative
Steve Leider: Committee Member, Ross Faculty Council for Undergraduate Programs
Jun Li: Chair, Ross Faculty Council for MBA Programs
Bill Lovejoy: Committee Member, Ross Masters in Business Analytics Task Force
Nigel Melville: Program Director, Design Science Program
Committee Member, Ross Faculty Community Values
Committee Member, Ross Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Joline Uichanco: Committee Member, Ross Doctoral Studies
Andrew Wu: Faculty Director, FinTech Initiative
awards
Sam Aflaki: Michigan Ross MSCM Neary Teaching Excellence Award, 2020
Hyun-Soo Ahn: Michigan Ross Researcher of the Year Award, 2019
Sparks Whirlpool Corporation Research Award, 2018
Michigan Ross Global MBA Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
Ravi Anupindi: Poets & Quants Favorite MBA Professors of the Class of 2020
Master of Supply Chain Management Teaching Excellence Award, 2019
Victor L. Bernard Teaching Leadership Award, 2019
CORE Award (Contribution to the Research Environment of Michigan Ross), 2015
Damian Beil: Michigan Ross Neary Teaching Excellence Award, 2018
Poets & Quants Best 40 Under 40 Professors, 2015
Izak Duenyas: Michigan Ross Senior Faculty Research Award, 2019
Michigan Ross Executive Education Award for Custom Programs, 2015
Wally Hopp: Michigan Ross Andy Andrews Distinguished Faculty Service Award, 2021
Michigan Ross Weekend MBA Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
Can Public Reporting Cure Healthcare? -2nd place best paper INFORMS Public Sector, 2018
CORE Award (Contribution to the Research Environment of Michigan Ross), 2016
Stefanus Jasin: Section Price Award, Revenue Management & Pricing Section of INFORMS, 2018
Roman Kapuscinski: Michigan Ross MSCM Neary Teaching Excellence Award, 2021
iForm Best Paper Award Finalist, 2020
Michigan Ross Neary Teaching Excellence Award, 2018
Michigan Ross Researcher of the Year Award, 2017
Samantha Keppler: Shortlist Financial Times Academic Research Impact Award, 2022
Stephen Leider: Vernon L. Smith Ascending Scholar Prize, 2019
Jun Li: Shortlist Financial Times Academic Research Impact Award, 2022
INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Award, 2020
Responsible Research in Operations Management Honorable Mention, 2020
Michigan Ross Junior Faculty Award, 2018
Laurie Morgan: Michigan Ross Neary Teaching Excellence Award, 2018
Debjit Roy: Professor of the Year IIM Amedabad University, 2020
John Silberholz: Pierskalla Best Paper Award, 2019
Eric Svaan: Michigan Ross Evening MBA Teaching Excellence Award, 2019
Provost Teaching Innovation Award, 2019
Michigan Ross Evening MBA Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
Michigan Ross Andy Andrews Distinguished Faculty Service Award, 2017
Michigan Ross Evening MBA Teaching Excellence Award, 2015
Joline Uichanco: Arnold M. & Linda T. Jacob Junior Faculty Fellow Award, 2019
Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Revenue Management Pricing Practice Award, 2017
Andrew Wu: Shortlist Financial Times Academic Research Impact Award, 2022
POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Competition First Place, 2021
faculty research interests
Hyun-soo Ahn, Ph.D. (Michigan), Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: modeling and analysis of production and service systems, analysis of integrated/decentralized supply chain management models, applications of stochastic optimization, queuing systems.
Ravi Anupindi, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon), David B. Hermelin Professor of Business Administrations, Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: supply chain management, strategic sourcing, supply chain risk management, lean operations, supply chain sustainability, value chains for economic development and health care delivery.
Kate Astashkina, Ph.D. (INSEAD), Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations. Research Interests: sustainable operations management, food waste, supply chain management, innovative B2C business models (incl., grocery e-tailing, peer-to-peer food sharing, rewards-based crowdfunding, subscription-based clothing rental).
Lennart Baardman, Ph.D (MIT), Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: predictive and prescriptive analytics, service operations, retail operations, revenue management and pricing.
Damian Beil, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Associate Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: strategic sourcing, design of procurement auctions and applications of operations management to health care.
Izak Duenyas, Ph.D. (Northwestern), Professor of Technology & Operations, Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering. Research interests: supply chain management, stochastic modeling, performance analysis and control of manufacturing/service systems, investments in new technology.
Hila Etzion, Ph.D. (Rochester) Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations. Research interests: information systems economics; online auctions, managing multiple selling mechanisms online, pricing strategies for online services with network externalities, simultaneous management of offline and online selling channels
Wallace Hopp, Ph.D. (Michigan), Herrick Professor of Business, Professor of Technology & Operations, Professor of Industrial and Operations. Research interests: design, control and management of production, supply chain and work systems.
Stefanus Jasin, Ph.D. (Stanford), Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: stochastic analysis, dynamic optimization, and analysis of heuristics. Current area of application: inventory control and revenue pricing management.
Roman Kapuscinski, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon), Department Chair, Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: supply chain management, value of information in coordinating elements of supply chain, optimal design of production-inventory systems with capacity constraints, financial and operational hedging, and efficiency of energy markets.
Murat Koksalan, Ph.D. (SUNY), Lecturer of Technology & Operations. Research interests: multiple criteria decision making, production management applications, simulation, and modern heuristic techniques.
M.S. Krishnan, Ph.D. (Carnegie Mellon) Accenture Professor of Computer and Information Systems, Professor of Technology and Operations. Research Interest: business innovation, corporate IT strategy, business value of IT investments, metrics and measures for business process and software quality, productivity and customer satisfaction
Sanjeev Kumar, Ph.D. (Michigan), LEO Lecturer I.
Stephen G. Leider, Ph.D. (Harvard), Sanford R. Robertson Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations. Research interests: experimental and theoretical analysis of the effect of psychological factors on contractual relationships, behavior in social networks, individual decision-making about risk and uncertainty.
Peter J. Lenk, Ph.D. (Michigan), Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow, Professor of Technology & Operations. Associate Professor of Marketing, Research interests: Bayesian inference and forecasting, marketing research, stochastic modeling.
Jun Li, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: empirical operations management, business analytics, revenue management and pricing, consumer behavior, competitive dynamics, social and economic network, structural modeling and estimation.
William S. Lovejoy, Ph.D. (Delaware), Raymond T. J. Perring Family Professor of Business Administration, Professor of Technology & Operations, Professor of Art-School of Art and Design. Research interests: health care, innovation and cross-functional issues in operations management.
Nigel P. Melville, Ph.D. (University of California Irvine), Associate Professor of Technology and Operations. Research interests: business value of information systems, how organizations generate value with information systems, information systems and environmental sustainability performance of organizations.
Samantha Meyer, PhD. (Northwestern), Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: Qualitative and empirical studies of social networks and resource flow; operational decision-making in under-resourced organizations (i.e. K-12 schools); applied optimization of socio-technical problems (technical problems with social parameters, constraints, or variables).
Mohamed Mostagir, Ph.D. (California Institute of Technology), Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: Stochastic and dynamic optimization, game theory, innovation and decentralized markets.
Laurie Morgan, Ph.D. (California- Berkeley), Lecturer of Technology & Operations. Research Interest: gender and work, work and family, organizations and professional careers.
Tariq Mughal, M.S. & M.B.A. (Utah), Lecturer of Technology & Operations. Research interests: business analytics, supply chain, information systems, program management.
John Silberholz, Ph.D. (MIT), Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: healthcare analytics, current focus on cancer screening and treatment.
Eric Svaan, M.S. (Carnegie Mellon), Lecturer of Technology & Operations. Research interests: project management, supply chain network design, rapid plant assessment and lean operations transformation.
Joline Uichanco, Ph.D. (MIT), Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations. Research interests: supply chain management under uncertainty, supply chain resilience in emergencies, humanitarian logistics, omni-channel retail operations, e-commerce.
Andrew Wu, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Assistant Professor of Technology & Operations.