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Roger W. Schmenner

Contact Information

Phone: 317-274-4417
Fax: 317-274-2482
rschmenn [at] iupui[dot] edu (E-mail)
BS 4038
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  • Professor of Operations Management
  • Randall L. Tobias Chair
  • Chief of Staff, Office of the Chancellor

Education:

  • Ph.D. Yale University,1973
  • M.Phil. Yale University, 1971
  • A.B. Princeton University, 1969

Awards & Honors:

  • Fellow, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 2004.
  • President, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), 1997.
  • Lilly Alumni Teaching Excellence Award: 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001
  • Outstanding Faculty Award, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1982, 1985
  • Other teaching awards: Max Barney Executive Education Award , 1996; Kelley Direct, 2003

Professional Experience:

  • Professor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1987- present
  • Visiting Professor, IMD, 1986-87, 1992-93, 2002-03
  • Associate Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 1980-86
  • Research Associate, Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies, 1978-1980
  • Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School, 1974-78

Professional Interests:

  • Productivity; manufacturing strategy; service operations

Selected Publications:

  • Making Business Location Decisions, Prentice Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: 1982).
  • Production/Operations Management: From the Inside Out, Macmillan (New York, 5th edition, 1993).
  • "How Can Service Businesses Survive and Prosper?," Sloan Management Review (MIT), Spring 1986.
  • "The Merit of Making Things Fast". Sloan Management Review (MIT), Fall 1988.
  • "International Factory Productivity Gains", Journal of Operations Management (Elsevier), April 1991.
  • “On Theory in Operations Management”, with Morgan L. Swink, Journal of Operations Management (Elsevier), December 1998.
  • “Looking Ahead by Looking Back: Swift, Even Flow in the History of Manufacturing”, Production and Operations Management. (Production and Operations Management Society), Spring 2001.
  • “Understanding Persistently Variable Performance in Plants”, with Robert S. Collins, International Journal of Operations and Production Management (Emerald Group Publishing), March 2007.


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