Elizabeth Durango Cohen

Elizabeth Durango-Cohen is a Visiting Associate Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Kellogg and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Stuart School of Business. Dr. Durango-Cohen completed her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley where she worked in the area of production planning and inventory control in the context of supply chain management.  Durango-Cohen's current research efforts focus on the interface of Marketing and Operations to support fundraising efforts at not-for-profit institutions.  This work is supported by a grant by the National Science Foundation. She is also interested in modeling the effect of capacity on pricing decisions for supply chains with competing National and Store-Brand products, as well as on issues tied to sustainable operations. Durango-Cohen's work is published in academic journals including Production and Operations Management, the European Journal of Operations Management and Management Science.

Education Ph.D., 2002, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley

Certificate, 1996, Management of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, Walter A. Haas School of Business

M.S., 1995, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley

B.S., 1994, Applied Mathematics; Computer Science, Sonoma State University, Graduated With Distinction

Academic Positions Associate Professor, Operations Management, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 2014-present

Assistant Professor, Operations Management, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, 2005-2014

Assistant Professor, Operations and Manufacturing Management, John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, 2002-2004

Honors and Awards National Science Foundation Grant (co-PI), National Science Foundation, 2013-2016

National Science Foundation Grant (co-PI), National Science Foundation, 2010-2013

Dean's Summer Research Grant Recipient, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago

Fellowship Finalist, Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS)

International Fellowship Recipient, Soroptimist

Doctoral Colloquium Participant, INFORMS

Education Academic Positions Honors and Awards