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Associate Professor Gerard Wedig Talks with EMBA Student

Operational Management

The operations of a firm involve the acquisition of productive resources by it, their configuration into a productive system, and their utilization in producing goods and services. These activities require decision making at strategic, planning, and scheduling levels. Operations Management is concerned with formulating and solving such decision problems. On the one hand, this demands the realistic modeling of these decision problems; on the other, the solution to the problem requires a knowledge of the relevant methodology and, very often, the development of new theory and techniques.

Faculty & Research Interests

Abraham Seidmann, Area Coordinator
Flexible manufacturing-systems management, corporate information systems, computer control of production systems, and advanced financial information systems development.

Gregory Dobson Associate, Professor of Operations Management and Operations Research
Healthcare operations, service operations, interface of production and marketing related to product line pricing and design.

Harry Groenevelt, Associate Professor of Operations Management
Health care operations, logistics and supply chain management, service system management, and quality management.

Phillip J. Lederer, Associate Professor of Operations Management
Operations Management’s integration with economic theory, financial justification of manufacturing technology, performance evaluation in operations, and competition in network based industries.

Edieal J. Pinker, Associate Professor of Computers and Information Systems
Modeling of flexible work forces in uncertainty, and the influence of information technologies on design and structure of work and implications for management.

Vera Tilson, Assistant Professor of Operations Management