Brian Tomlin

Brian Tomlin is the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and the William and Josephine Buchanan Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. His research explores operations strategy and supply chain management, with a focus in the areas of supply chain risk and innovative operations. Brian is a Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society in recognition for his research. He is a past president of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society and has served as a Department Editor at the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management journal. Brian has published widely in the leading academic journals and in practice-focused outlets such as the Financial Times and Supply Chain Management Review. At Tuck, he teaches the core operations management class and has taught the operations strategy elective. In 2018, Brian received the Core Professor Teaching Excellence Award.

Brian received his PhD from MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he was awarded the Zannetos PhD Dissertation Prize. His undergraduate degree is from University College Dublin in Ireland. Prior to becoming an academic Brian worked full time for a number of companies, including General Electric and the Boston Consulting Group.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Supply chain management, operations strategy

CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS

• Supply chain design
• Industry 4.0
• Process innovation

Education

• PhD MIT Sloan School of Management (1995 — 1999)
• BE University College Dublin (1988 — 1992)

WORKING PAPERS

• With S. Saghafian and S. Biller, "The Internet of Things and Information Fusion: Who Talks to Who"
• With T. Lu, Y-J Chen, and Y. Wang "Selling Coproducts through a Distributor: The Impact on Product Line Design"

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• With Y-J Chen and Y. Wang, “Dual Co-product Technologies: Implications for Process Development and Adoption," Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 19(4), 2017
• With S. Saghafian, “The Newsvendor under Distribution Ambiguity: Using the Maximum-Entropy Principle to Combine Data with Moment and Tail Information,” Operations Research, 64(1), 2016
• With Y-J. Chen and Y. Wang, “Coproduct Technologies: Product Line Design and Process Innovation,” Management Science, 59(12), December 2013
• With S. Kim, “Guilt by Association: Strategic Failure Prevention and Recovery Capacity Investments,” Management Science, 59(7), July 2013
• With L. Dong, “Managing Disruption Risk: The Interplay between Operations and Insurance,” Management Science, 58(10), October 2012
• With Y. Wang and W. Gilland, “Regulatory Trade Risk and Supply Chain Strategy,” Production and Operations Management, 30(4), July-August 2011
• With Y. Wang and W. Gilland, “Mitigating Supply Risk: Dual Sourcing or Process Improvement?,” Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 12 (3), Summer 2010
• "The Impact of Supply-Learning When Suppliers are Unreliable," Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 11(2), 2009
• With Y. Wang, "Pricing and Operational Recourse in Coproduction Systems," Management Science, 54(3), 2008
• "On the Value of Mitigation and Contingency Strategies for Managing Supply-Chain Disruption Risks," Management Science, 52(5), 2006
• With Y. Wang, "On the Value of Mix-Flexibility and Dual-Sourcing in Unreliable Newsvendor Networks," Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 7(1), 2005
• "Capacity Investments in Supply Chains: Sharing-the-Gain Rather Than Sharing-the-Pain," Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 5(4), 2003
• With S. Graves, "Process Flexibility in Supply Chains," Management Science, 49(7), 2003

AWARDS

• Tuck Class of 2011 Teaching Excellence (Core Professor), 2018
• Management Science journal Meritorious Service Award, 2015
• Finalist, 2013 Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Best Paper Award - papers published in previous three years are eligible for this annual award
• Finalist, 2012 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice
• Wickham Skinner Award for Best Paper published in Production and Operations Management journal during 2011 (awarded 2012)
• Manufacturing and Service Operations Management journal Meritorious Service Award, 2011
• Management Science journal Meritorious Service Award, 2010
• Manufacturing and Service Operations Management journal Meritorious Service Award, 2009
• Frank Batten Young Scholar in Operations and Information Technology, 2004
• Young Researcher Roundtable Appointee, INFORMS, 2004
• Zannetos PhD Thesis Prize, Sloan School of Management, MIT, 2000
• John F Kennedy Fund (Ireland) Award, 1997, 1998
• University College Dublin, Engineering Academic Award, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992
• Procter & Gamble Award for Academic Excellence, 1991