Elliott Weiss

Oliver Wight Professor Emeritus of Business Administration Elliott N. Weiss teaches in the Technology and Operations Management area at Darden. He is the author of numerous articles in the areas of production and operations management and has extensive consulting experience for both manufacturing and service companies in the areas of production scheduling, workflow management, logistics, lean conversions and total productive maintenance.

Before coming to Darden in 1987, Weiss was on the faculty of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He has held visiting appointments at the Graduate School of Management and the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

ACADEMIC AREA

• Technology and Operations Management

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Inventory Control, Manufacturing and Planning and Scheduling, Manufacturing Project Management, Management, Materials Management, Planning and Scheduling, Service Industry Operations, Total Productive Maintenance, Lean Systems

MBA COURSES

• Operations Management (MBA, EMBA and GEMBA)
• Management of Service Operations
• Management of Global Processes

EXECUTIVE EDUCATION PROGRAMS

Management Essentials for Developing Leaders

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Queue Management: Elimination, Expectation, and Enhancement. Business Horizons, with Chad Tucker, (to appear)

• Lean Tools for Service Business Model Innovation in Healthcare, with Austin English and Sean Jackson, in Service Business

• Model Innovation in Healthcare and Hospital Management, Mario A. Pfannstiel and Christoph Rasche (Editors), Springer, 2016.

• Weiss, Elliott, Graham Gillam, Kyle Simmons, and Donald Stevenson. "Line, Line, Everywhere a Line: Cross-Cultural Considerations for Waiting-Line Managers,Business Horizons, Vol 57 (4) 2014, 533-539.

• Weiss, Elliott and Rebecca Goldberg. "Living Lean: A Practical Primer on Continual Improvement," Productivity Press, (2014).