Representative Publications
(with Ananth Raman)
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics are Transforming Supply Chains and Improving Performance. Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming, May 2010.
(with Ananth Raman and Anna McClelland)
“Rocket Science Retailing is Coming: Are Your Ready,” Harvard Business Review, July-August 2000.
“What is the Right Supply Chain for Your Product?” Harvard Business Review, March/April 1997.
(with J. Hammond, W. Obermeyer and A. Raman)
“Making Supply Meet Demand in an Uncertain World,” Harvard Business Review, May/June 1994.
“Rocket Science Retailing: The 2006 Philip McCord Morse Lecture,” Operations Research Vol. 57, No. 3, May-June 2009, pp. 527-540.
Education
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970; SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969; SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965
Recent Consulting
Transportation optimization, Air Products and Chemicals, 1979-1984, Dupont, 1979-1981, Exxon, 1983-88, Frito Lay, 1983-6; Manufacturing strategy, Scott Paper, 1989-90; Supply chain strategy, Century Products, 1994, London Fog, 1994, Lutron,1995-present, Campbell Soup, 1989, Motorola, 2005-present, Nokia, 1997-present, General Motors, 1996; Anderson Consulting, 1998 IBM, 1998; Inventory Optimization, Charming Shoppes, 1995, Spiegel, 1996; Americold, 1996; Ahold, 1997-2002, BMG, 2000, American Pacific Enterprises, 2000-2004. Linens ‘n Things, 2000-2006
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Lanchester Prize awarded to the outstanding publication in the field of operations research in that year, 1977; Institute of Management Science Edelman Prize, awarded to the best implementation of management science in that year, 1983; National Council of Physical Distribution Management E. Grosvenor Plowman award for the paper "Computers in Transportation: From Integration to Intelligence" (co-authored with R. Jaikumar), 1984; Elected to National Academy of Engineering,1994; Wharton School MBA Core Curriculum Cluster Awards for Teaching Excellence (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999); Listed in Who’s Who in the World (2000); Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Fellow Award (2002);
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society Fellow Award (2002); Listed by ISI Web of Science Highly Cited as one of the 250 most cited researchers in economics and management, 2003;The paper M. L. Fisher "The Lagrangian Relaxation Method for Solving Integer Programming Problems" published in Management Science in 1981 was voted by the membership of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science as one of the ten most influential papers published in Management Science during its 50 year history, 2004; The paper G. Cornuejols, M. Fisher and G.L. Nemhauser, “Location of Bank Accounts to Optimize Float: An Analytic Study of Exact and Approximate Algorithms," published in Management Science in 1977, was voted by the membership of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science as one of the fifty most influential papers published in Management Science during its 50 year history, 2004; 13th Annual E. Leonard Arnoff Memorial Lecture on the Practice of Management Science, University of Cincinnati, 2004; Production and Operations Management Society Fellow Award, 2005; Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Philip McCord Morse Lectureship Award, given in honor of Philip McCord Morse, MIT Professor and one of the founders of the field of Operations Research, 2005; Institute for Operations Research and Management Science Kimball Medal for Distinguished Service to the Institute and to the profession of Operations Research and Management Science, 2007
Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1975-present. (named UPS Professor, 2001; Stephen J. Heyman Professor, 1986-2001; Chairperson, Decision Sciences Department, 1986-89; Associate Director, Doctoral Programs, 1977-86). Previous appointment: University of Chicago. Visiting appointments: Harvard University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, People's Republic of China; Graduate School of Management, Delft, The Netherlands; Cornell University
Other Positions
Systems Engineer, IBM, 1965-66
Professional Leadership 2005-2009
Member, MIT Sloan School Visiting Committee, 2006-2009; Member, Harvard Business School Visiting Committee, 2006-present
Corporate and Public Sector Leadership 2005-2009
Chairman, Distribution Analysis, Research and Technology, Inc., 1981-1990; Chairman, 4R Systems, Inc., 1999–present.
