Lieven Demeester

Research Interests

• Operations Strategy
• Supply Chain Strategy
• Sustainable Operations

Education

• PhD UCLA Anderson School of Management (1990 — 1995)
• Diploma Universiteit Gent (1985 — 1990)
• highschool St. Jozefcollege Turnhout (1978 — 1985)

Companies

• Associate Professor of Operations Management (Practice) Singapore Management University (2008)
• Assistant Professor of Operations Management INSEAD (2000 — 2008)
• Consultant and Principal Consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers (1997 — 2000)
• Consultant Arthur D. Little (1995 — 1996)
• PhD Student Intern - San Jose IBM (1992 — 1992)

Awards, Recognition and Honors

• Dean's Teaching Honour List - Top 20 Faculty Members, August 2009 - August 2009
• Richard A. Freund Scholarship, ASQ (American Society for Quality). Only recipient, selected from over 90 candidates nationwide., 1994 - 1994

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

• “The Role of Operations Executives in Strategy Making”, by Lieven DEMEESTER, A. DE MEYER, and J. GRAHOVAC, 2014, 32, Journal Of Operations Management, 403-413
• “Plant Networks for Processing Recyclable Materials”, by Lieven DEMEESTER, M. QI and L. VAN WASSENHOVE, 2013, 15, 4, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 670–688
• "Managing learning resources for consecutive product generations.", by Lieven DEMEESTER and M. QI, 2005 , 95 , International Journal of Production Economics, 265-283
• "Organic production systems: What the biological cell can teach us about manufacturing", by Lieven DEMEESTER, K. EICHLER, and C.H. LOCH, 2004 , 6 , 2, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 115-132
• "Inventory Reduction and Productivity Growth: Linkages in the Japanese Automotive Industry", by M.B. LIEBERMAN and Lieven DEMEESTER, 1999 , 8 , 1, MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 466-485
• "The empirical determinants of inventory levels in high-volume manufacturing", by M.B. LIEBERMAN, S. HELPER, and Lieven DEMEESTER, 1999 , 45 , 4, Production and Operations Management, 44-55
• "Cycle time reduction at an IBM wafer fabrication facility", by Lieven DEMEESTER and C.S. TANG, 1996 , 26 , 2, Interfaces, 34-49

Selected Chapters in Books

• "Mathematical models in IC manufacturing", by C.S. TANG and Lieven DEMEESTER, Perspectives in Operations Management, Kluwer, 1993