Operations
General Information
The David Eccles School of Business (DESB) at the University of Utah offers a program of study leading to a PhD in operations management. The Operations Management (OM) specialization offers exciting opportunities to pursue new research directions in the areas of new product development, supply chain operations, healthcare operations, production and quality management, technology management, and service operations.
Highlights of the Operations specialization include:
- Close relationships and opportunities to collaborate in a supportive environment with faculty who have nationally recognized research reputations.
- Department offers complementary seminars to enrich the learning experience.
- The annual Utah Product-Service Innovation Conference and the Utah Winter Operations Conference provide unique occasions to interact with renowned scholars in OM from around the world.
- Opportunities and funding to support student presentations at national academic conferences.
- Recent placements – Nyenrode Business University, Netherlands; University of Houston; University of Idaho; Depaul University; Southern Methodist University; University of Victoria.
- Average starting pay for OM graduates: $90-$110K annually.
PhD Committee Representative
Professor Sriram Thirumalai
Email: sriram.thirumalai@business.utah.edu
Phone: 801-585-3940
Operations Faculty
Krishnan S. Anand (David Eccles Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor)- 1998 PHD Stanford University
Research/Teaching Focus: Information, Incentives and Inventories in Supply Chain Management; Internet-based strategies; Managing Information Flows; Modeling Information Systems
Recent Publications: Management Science
Glen Schmidt (David Eccles Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor)- 1998 PHD Stanford University
Research/Teaching Focus: Operations Management, Operations Strategy,Supply Chain Management, Product Innovation, New Product Development
Recent Publications: Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics
Jeff Stratman (Assistant Professor)- 2001 PhD University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Research/Teaching Focus: Operations Management, Technology management and Strategic Supply Chain Management, Operations Strategy
Recent Publications: Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management
Sriram Thirumalai (Assistant Professor)- PhD University Of Minnesota
Research/Teaching Focus: Empirical Research In Operations Management, Management Of Technology, Production Operations Management, Service Operations Management
Recent Publications: Journal of Operations Management
Weiyu Tsai (Assistant Professor)- 2003 PhD University Of Washington
Research/Teaching Focus: New Product-Service Development, Project Scheduling, Channel Coordination, Non-cooperative Game Theory, Product Innovation Consulting
Recent Publications: INFORMS Transaction on Education, Production and Operations Management Science Chronicle
Don Wardell (Director of MBA Program, Professor)- 1990 PHD Purdue University
Research/Teaching Focus: Data Analysis And Decision Making, Management Science, Quality Management And Six Sigma, Statistics
Recent Publications: Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, INFORMS Transactions on Education
Taylor Randall (David Eccles School of Business Dean, Professor)- PhD, 1999, University of Pennsylvania
Teaching/Research Focus: Strategic Cost Management, Empirical Cost/Operations Research
Recent Publications: Marketing Science, Financial Times, Managing Product Variety, Accounting Organizations and Society, Journal of Operations Management, Supply Chain Management Review
