Erica Plambeck

Research Statement

Erica Plambeck is an expert in manufacturing operations and supply chain management, and her current research focuses on environmental sustainability.

Bio

Erica Plambeck is the Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information & Technology in the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment. She teaches the MBA core course in Operations Management and an elective, Environmental Entrepreneurship, that draws together MBAs and graduate students from across the Stanford campus. Erica received the Presidential Early Career Award for research in supply chain management, and was recognized as a Faculty Pioneer in social and environmental stewardship by WRI and the Aspen Institute. Erica grew up in the Midwest, received a BS in Mathematics and Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, developed decision-models for EU climate change policy as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University, and received her PhD in Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University.

Academic Degrees

• PhD, Engineering Economic Systems and Operations Research, Stanford University, 2000
• Diploma, Economics, London School of Economics, 1996
• M.Phil, Management Studies, University of Cambridge, 1995
• BS, Industrial Engineering and Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 1994

Academic Appointments

• The Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, Stanford GSB, 2015-2016
• Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, Stanford GSB, 2010-2015
• Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, Stanford GSB, 2005-2010
• Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, Stanford GSB, 2004-2009
• Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Technology, Stanford GSB, 2000-2004
• Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for Environment, Stanford University, 2005-2015

Awards and Honors

• Dhirubhai Ambani Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship for 2021–22