Gerard Cachon

“The OPIM department, and Wharton, prides itself in applied research that is both scientifically rigorous and relevant for the industry. Through a number of research centers at Wharton and a variety of Wharton-sponsored events, PhD students are offered unmatched access to companies and top managers who provide insights into current issues facing the industry and data needed to analyze these issues. Thus, our students come out of the PhD program exposed to industry issues and well-equipped to understand and analyze business problems.”

Gerard Cachon
The Fred Sullivan Professor; Professor of Operations and Information Management

 

Operations, Information Management & Decision Processes

Wharton's program in Operations, Information Management & Decision Processes emphasizes research on real management problems and maintains a balance between theory and implementation. The faculty trains scholars in decision processes, information and decision technologies, information strategy, operations management, and operations research.

Faculty research applies analytic and empirical studies to important problems facing the private and public sectors, including: supply chain management; production planning and scheduling; product development; decision support systems; information-based strategy; systems development and implementation; and risk and environmental management.

Recent graduates have taken academic positions at such institutions as Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Duke, the University of Chicago, INSEAD, NYU, UCLA, the University of Virginia, and the University of Michigan.

Faculty

Chairperson
Gerard Cachon

PhD Coordinator
Noah F. Gans

Professors
David A. Asch
Jonathan Baron
Gerard Cachon
Eric K. Clemons
Morris A. Cohen
Jehoshua Eliashberg
Marshall L. Fisher
Monique Guignard-Spielberg
William F. Hamilton
John C. Hershey
Lorin Hitt
Michael Kearns
Steven O. Kimbrough
Paul R. Kleindorfer
Abba M. Krieger
Howard Kunreuther
J. Michael Steele
Christian Terwiesch
Karl Ulrich
Yu-Sheng Zheng
Associate Professors
Noah F. Gans
Kartik Hosanager
Serguei Netessine
Maurice Schweitzer
Lyle Ungar

Assistant Professors
Shawndra Hill
Richard Lai
Chris Lee
Katherine Milkman
Devin Pope
Sergei Savin
Uri Simonsohn
Senthil Veeraraghavan

Visit the Operations and Information Management Department website for more information.