Panos Kouvelis

Panos Kouvelis

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Prior to joining Olin, Panos Kouvelis served as an associate professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published three books and over 80 papers in top-quality academic journals. Kouvelis has held visiting appointments with the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, where he taught in the executive programs in Barcelona, Chicago and Singapore, WHU- Koblenz School of Management, Germany, and Singapore Management University, Singapore. He has consulted with and/or taught executive programs for Emerson, IBM, Dell Computers, Boeing, Hanes, Duke Hospital, Solutia, Express Scripts, Spartech, MEMC, Ingram Micro, Smurfit Stone, Reckitt & Colman, and Bunge on supply chain, operations strategy, inventory management, lean manufacturing, operations scheduling and manufacturing system design issues.

Area of Expertise

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International Business, Management Strategy, Technology Management, Inventory Control, Production Planning, and Scheduling, Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology, International Business, Management Strategy, Technology Management

Education

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• Ph D 1988, Stanford University
• MBA 1985, University of Southern California
• MS 1985, University of Southern California
• BS 1983, National Technical University of Athens

Academic/Professional Activities

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• Other, IIE Transactions: Project Selection, Coordination and Management
• Editor, Associate Editor, Operations Research
• Other, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM)
• Editorial Review Board Member, Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management
• Editor, Senior Editor, Flexible Services & Manufacturing Journal
• Editor, Senior Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
• Editor, Editor of Special Issue, Management Science
• Other, Production & Operations on Manufacturing Operations
• Editor, Associate Editor, Decision Sciences
• Editor, Associate Editor, Operations Research
• Editor, Senior Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
• Other, IIE Transactions on Supply Chains/Production-Inventory System
• Editor, Associate Editor, Management Science on Interdisciplinary Research

Awards/Honors

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• Fellow of POMS Award, 2016
• Appointment to the Academic Council, ALBA Graduate School of Business, The American College of Greece, 2015
• Founders Day Distinguished Faculty Award, Washington University in St. Louis, 2013
• EMBA Reid Teaching Award, Washington University, Olin School of Business, 2009
• EMBA Reid Teaching Award, Washington University, Olin School of Business, 2008
• M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, M&SOM, 2005
• EMBA Reid Teaching Award, Washington University, Olin School of Business, 2003
• M&O Classes I, II, III and V Teaching Awards, M&O, 2002
• Best Research Paper, Institute of Industrial Engineers for service to their flagship journal, 2000
• MBA Reid Teaching Awards, Best Teacher of the Year, Washington University Olin School of Business, 2000
• EM3 Program Teaching Award, 1999
• EM3 Program Teaching Award, 1998
• MBA Reid Teaching Awards, Best Teacher of the Year, Washington University Olin School of Business, 1998
• Ranked as the 7th most productive researcher of production & operations management in U.S. business school, 1993

Teaching Interests

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International Business; Management Science - Decision Analysis; Management Science - Math Programming; Management Strategy; Operations & Manufacturing Management; Operations & Manufacturing Management - Supply Chain Management; Technology Management

Research Interests

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Global supply chain management, operations and finance interfaces, risk management in supply chains, commodity risk management, operations strategy, managing the innovation process, marketing/manufacturing interfaces, product line design, lean manufacturing, inventory control, operations planning, project management, cyclic scheduling, manufacturing system design, management science and optimization.

Selected Publications

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• "Managing Operations of a Hog Farm Facing Volatile Markets: Inventory and Selling Strategies", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, with Ye Liu, Yunzhe Qiu, Danko Turcic
• "Supply Chain Contracting in Environments with Volatile Input Prices and Frictions", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Issue 1, 130-146, with Danko Turcic, Wenhui Zhao, 2018
• "Adoption of cost reducing technology by asymmetric duopolists in a stochastically evolving market", IIE Trans, Issue 2, 145-157, with C Chambers, P Su, 2009
• "On the Integration of Production and Financial Hedging Decision in Global Markets", Operations Research Journal, Issue 3, 470-489, with Q. Ding, Lingxiu Dong, 2007
• "Flexible Backup Supply and the Management of Lead Time Uncertainty ", Production and Operations Management, Issue 2, 184-199, with Jia Li, 2008
• "Financing Inventories with an Investment Efficiency Objective: ROI-Maximising Newsvendor, Bank Loans and Trade Credit Contracts", International Journal of Production Research, with Yunzhe Qiu
• "Hedging Commodity Procurement in a Bilateral Supply Chain", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Issue 2, 221-235, with Danko Turcic, Ehsan Bolandifar, 2015
• "Global Facility Network Design with Responsive Pricing", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Issue 2, 278-298, with Lingxiu Dong, P Su, 2010
• "Supplier behavior and the effectiveness of coordinating contracts", Management Science, with J Niederhoff, 2011
• "Prophet Inequalities and Approximation Schemes for a New Class of Overbooking Problems in Container Shipping", Operations Research Journal, with Jacob Feldman, Yukai Huang