SPOTLIGHT!
Our OMS Faculty serve
the larger academic community
in multiple ways.

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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In BusinessWeek's 2008 Graduate Business Program Rankings, Ross School of Business is ranked No. 1 in MBA Specialty Rankings for Operations/Production.

Bill Lovejoy and Shaun Jackson, professors of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) course were selected as one of 5 winners of the new U-M Teaching Innovation Prize. This award is designed to recognize faculty who have developed innovative approaches to teaching that incorporate creative pedagogies, new ways to engage students in the learning process, and new approaches to student collaboration.

Watch the IPD Video - Interviews with Professors Bill Lovejoy and Shaun Jackson (requires QuickTime 7.0 or later). The IPD course has enjoyed coverage by CNN, Business Week, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.  Visit IPD Website to learn more...

Professor Damian Beil is the winner of Arnold M. & Linda T. Jacob Faculty Development Award. The Jacobs established this award to provide resources for a faculty member to reach beyond the comfort zone of incremental findings, to take risks, and explore new ideas. In his research, Beil develops mathematical models to analyze complex problems in procurement. His work includes studies of how bargaining power affects opportunistic pricing by suppliers, and how procurement auctions should be designed to account for supplier qualification screening and quality levels.

Professor Bill Lovejoy received Andy Andrews Distinguished Faculty Service Award. The Andrews award was created as a lasting memorial to the late Andy Andrews, a beloved Ross professor who embodied the spirit both of service -- benefiting others -- and distinguishment -- meaning excellence and dignity. During his 13-year service (1995-2008) as the Department Chair, Professor Lovejoy elevated the status of the OMS Department to a No. 4 national ranking in 2005 by the Wall Street Journal and No. 1 in MBA Specialty Rankings for Operations/Production. 

Professor Jim Reece and Brian Talbot have been awarded the Andy Andrews Distinguished Faculty Service Award in 2007 and 2005, respectively.

Professor Izak Duenyas is awarded Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Award in 2009. Professor Duenyas is named Chairman of the OMS Department. He served as an associate dean for the Ross School of Business and has been awarded the Executive MBA Teaching Award and the "Researcher of the Year" award by the Ross School.

Professor Owen Wu  is the winner of BBA Teaching Excellence Award in 2009. The BBA class of 2009 selected Professor Wu to receive this award in recognition and appreciation of his outstanding contribution to their academic learning experience at Ross School of Business.

OMS professors have kept this award for four years in the past six years.  Professor Damian Beil, Professor Hyun-soo Ahn, Professor Roman Kapuscinski received BBA Teaching Excellence Award in 2007, 2006, 2004 respectively.

Stephen Leider joined OMS Department in Fall 2009. His research are experimental economics and behavioral contract theory.

The new Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) program started in 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.

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.

The theme of the Third Annual Global Operations Conference, held in November 2009, was “Redefining Operations: Strategies for a Volatile Economy.”

The Second Annual Global Operations Conference, held in November 2008, was named “Fast Forwarding Operations: Preparing for the Future.”

The First Annual Global Operations Conference, held on December 7-8, 2007, was focused on Management of Innovations.

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.

Other Honors & Awards

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.

Professor Wallace Hopp joined the OMS Department in Fall 2007.  Professor Hopp has won a number of awards, including teaching awards at both the engineering and business schools at Northwestern University. He has served 12 years on the editorial board of Management Science, 6 years as department editor and 6 years as editor-in-chief.

Zhixi Wan was a finalist in the MSOM student paper competition at INFORMS 2008. Zhixi works on procurement auctions with Prof. Beil. In 2007, he was awarded the Gladys D. and Walter R. Stark Graduate Scholarship.

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

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

Editorial Boards

Management Science: Ravi Anupindi, Izak Duenyas, and Roman Kapuscinski served 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