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Our OMS Faculty serve
the larger academic community
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Operations Management is the design and management of transformation processes that create value for society.

Management Science is the application of scientific, predominantly quantitative, tools and techniques to managerial problems.

The Operations and Management Science department in the Ross School of Business uses management science techniques to study operationally relevant business problems.

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Professor Izak Duenyas is named Chairman of the Operations and Management Science Department. Professor Duenyas recently served as an associate dean for the Ross School of Business and has been awarded the Executive MBA Teaching Award by Ross students and the "Researcher of the Year" award by the Ross School.

Professor Duenyas steps into the shoes most recently filled by Professor Bill Lovejoy since 1995.

During his tenure as Department Chairman, Professor Lovejoy elevated the status of the OMS Department to a #4 national ranking in 2005 by the Wall Street Journal. He has also taught the highly renowned Integrated Product Development (IPD) course. Most recently, the IPD course has enjoyed coverage by CNN, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Professor Lovejoy will now be able to focus more time on his current research interests - managing across functional boundaries, innovation, and health care - and, of course, continue to teach the IPD class.

We thank Professor Lovejoy for his years of service as Department Chair and wish Professor Duenyas the best of luck in his new appointment.

The Joel. D. Tauber Institute for Global Operations, formerly known as TMI (Tauber Manufacturing Institute), organized a conference on Management of Innovations in Global Operations, jointly with the Operations Management Club at the Ross School of Business. The conference was held on December 7-8, 2007, and featured prominent speakers from industry and academia.

The Tauber Institute also organized a lecture series jointly with the business school's Operations Management Club. Professors Beil, Sinha and Ahn spoke about procurement auctions, supply chain networks, and operational tools for improving profitability, respectively.

Professor Roman Kapuscinski is one of the co-directors of the Tauber Institute.

Professor Hyun-soo Ahn was featured in Business Week's list of favorite B-school professors, and cited for his excellence as a teacher. The story is part of Business Week's 2007 rankings of undergraduate business programs.

NEW PROGRAM: MASTER OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

A new Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) program will be offered by the Ross School of Business beginning January 2009. The one-year program is designed to add breadth and depth of knowledge in business and supply chain management. The 30 credit hour curriculum integrates several courses in supply chain management, cross-disciplinary electives, and a company sponsored team-based summer project. The program director is Professor Ravi Anupindi. Click here for more information.

Professor Wallace Hopp joined the OMS Department in Fall 2007 as the Herrick Professor of Management and Professor of Operations and Management Science. Professor Hopp’s research focuses primarily on the design, control and management of production systems. He has won a number of awards, including teaching awards at both the engineering and business schools at Northwestern. He is also the current editor-in-chief of Management Science.

Damian Beil was selected by the undergraduate class of 2007 to receive the BBA Teaching Excellence Award.

Jim Reece was awarded the Andy Andrews Distinguished Faculty Service Award for 2007.

Man Yu, a doctoral student who works with Professors Ahn and Kapuscinski, was awarded the Ross Doctoral Research Fellowship for 2007-2008.

Shanshan Hu, a doctoral student, was a finalist in the MSOM student paper competition at INFORMS 2007. Shanshan works with Professor Kapuscinski and Lovejoy.

Zhixi Wan, another doctoral students, was recently awarded the Gladys D. and Walter R. Stark Graduate Scholarship. Zhixi works on procurement auctions with Professor Beil.

The Wall Street Journal ranked the Ross School of Business Operations & Management Science department #4 in the nation in its 2005 rankings.

NEW BOOKS

Professor Wallace Hopp's new book, Supply Chain Science, is published by McGraw-Hill in October 2007.  The 3rd edition of Factory Physics, by Wallace Hopp and Mark Spearman, is also published in October 2007 by McGraw-Hill.

EDITORIAL BOARDS

Management Science: Wallace Hopp is the current editor-in-chief of Management Science. Additionally, Ravi Anupindi, Izak Duenyas, and Roman Kapuscinski currently serve as associate editors.

Operations Research: Izak Duenyas has been appointed as the Area Editor responsible for Manufacturing, Service and Supply Chain Operations. Additionally, Ravi Anupindi and Roman Kapuscinski are Associate Editors.

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management: Ravi Anupindi and Roman Kapuscinski are current members of the Editorial Board.

Others: Wallace Hopp is a senior editor of Production and Operations Management (POM), Ravi Anupindi is on the board of Naval Research Logistics, while Hyun-soo Ahn serves on the board of Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences