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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.
Contact Information
Address general mails to:
Nicole Watson
OMS Departmental Administrator
Ross School of Business
701 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234
Email: nmwatson@umich.edu
Contact Faculty
and/or Doctoral Students by visiting OMS web site pages.
Direct web site comments & questions to:
wangdd@umich.edu
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Ranked No. 1 in BusinessWeek Specialty Rankings for Operations/Production
In BusinessWeek's 2008 Graduate Business Program Rankings, Ross School of Business is ranked No. 1 in
MBA Specialty Rankings for Operations/Production.
2011 MSOM Conference & SIG Meetings
We are hosting the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (MSOM) Annual Conference
and the Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings on June 26-28, 2011.
Click here to enter the conference website.
Honors and Awards
Professor
Wallace Hopp is the
recipient of the
Senior Faculty Research Award in 2011. This award recognizes
sustained, exceptional, and continuing contributions to scholarly
research in the field of business. Professor Hopp is one of the most
prolific, influential, and widely cited scholars in operations
management and management science. He has published 76 articles in
refereed journals, with six A-level publications in the last three
years. He has served as editor-in-chief of Management Science, is
a fellow of INFORMS, and has served as adviser or co-adviser for 24
doctoral students. He is co-author of Factory
Physics, which was named the IIE Book of the Year, and the author of Supply Chain Science.
Recently, Professor
Hopp and his
coauthors (Soroush Saghafian, Mark Van Oyen, Jeffrey Desmond, Steven Kronick) received the
Pierskalla Best Paper Award
from the INFORMS Health Applications Section in 2010 for their paper
"Patient Streaming as a Mechanism for Improving Responsiveness in
Emergency Departments".
Professor Hyun-soo Ahn
is the winner of
the
Global MBA Teaching Excellence Award in 2011. Professor Ahn
also received BBA Teaching Excellent Award in 2006.
Professor 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. In 2006,
Professor Ahn was also named the Sanford R. Robertson Assistant
Professor of Business Administration. The one-year named professorship
recognizes early career development and excellence in scholarly
research.
Professor Owen Wu
is awarded the BBA Teaching Excellence Award in 2011. The BBA
class of 2011 selected Professor Wu to receive this award in recognition
of his outstanding contributions to their academic
learning experience at Ross School of Business. He also received BBA
Teaching Excellent Award in 2009.
OMS professors have kept this award for six years in the past eight years:
Past recipients are Eric Svaan (2010), Damian Beil (2007), Hyun-soo Ahn
(2006), and Roman
Kapuscinski (2004).
 Professor
Bill Lovejoy received
The CORE Award in 2010. This award is presented to faculty
members who have made creative, substantive, and high-impact
contributions to the research environment at Ross. It is not given every
year. For Professor Lovejoy, the award comes in recognition of his
ongoing efforts to elevate the research focus of the Operations and
Management Science Department. He continues to mine research
opportunities from practice rather than literature and has cultivated
the use of innovative methodologies to better address real-world
problems. During his 13-year service (1995-2008) as the Department Chair, Lovejoy has created a vibrant
research and learning community that is recognized as one of the best
departments of its kind.
Professor
Izak Duenyas
received Executive MBA Teaching Excellence Award in 2009. He was awarded the Executive MBA Teaching Award in
2003 and the "Researcher of the Year" award by the Ross School.
Professor
Damian Beil is the winner of
Arnold M. & Linda T. Jacob Faculty Development Award in 2009. In his research, Professor 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.
Bill Lovejoy and
Shaun Jackson, professors of the
Integrated Product
Development (IPD) course were selected as one of 5 winners of the University
of Michigan
Teaching Innovation Prize
in 2009.
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...
Sripad Devalkar was a finalist in the MSOM student paper
competition in 2010 for his research paper "Dynamic Risk Management
of Commodity Operations: Model and Analysis". He was also a finalist in the
POMS student paper competition in 2010 for the paper "Integrated
Optimization of Procurement, Processing and Trade of Commodities".
Zhixi Wan was a finalist in the MSOM student paper competition
at INFORMS 2008 for the paper "Bargaining power and supply base
diversification".
Shanshan Hu was a finalist in the MSOM student paper competition
at INFORMS 2007 for the paper "Price Dispersion in Electricity
Auctions: Strategic Analysis and Economic Implications".
Master of Supply Chain Management
The 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
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 2007 by McGraw-Hill.
The 2nd edition of
Managing Business Process Flows: Principles of Operations Management,
by Professor Ravi Anupindi and his coauthors, is published in 2007 by
Pearson Prentice Hall.
Tauber Institute
The theme of the 4th Annual Global Operations Conference,
held in November 2010, was “The Path Forward: Strategies & Technologies at the Frontier of Operations.”
The Third Annual Global Operations Conference,
held in November 2009, was named “Redefining Operations: Strategies for a Volatile Economy.” The Second Annual Global Operations Conference in 2008
was centered on “Fast Forwarding Operations: Preparing for the Future.” The First Annual Global Operations Conference
in 2007 was focused on Management of Innovations.
Professor Roman Kapuscinski
is one of the co-directors of the Tauber Institute.
Read more about Tauber Institute...
Editorial Boards
Management Science:
Ravi Anupindi,
Izak
Duenyas, and
Roman Kapuscinski
served as associate editors.
Operations Research:
Izak Duenyas is the Area Editor
of 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. |
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