Michael Lapré

E. Bronson Ingram Research Professor of Operations Management

Subject Area(s): Operations Management

Professor Michael A. Lapré is an internationally known expert on organizational learning curves. He is primarily interested in empirical research on improving organizational performance. His articles have appeared in California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and Queueing Systems. Lapré has been awarded the Shingo Research Prize, the Stan Hardy Award (twice), Wickham Skinner Awards for Best Paper (thrice), and the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research at Owen.

Lapré is a senior editor for Production and Operations Management (POM) and serves on the editorial board of Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information, and Operations Management. He has served as a department editor for POM, associate editor for Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), and a member of the editorial review boards of M&SOM, Decision Sciences and Operations Management Education Review. He has earned meritorious service awards from Management Science and M&SOM.

Professor Lapré joined the Owen faculty in 2001, after spending four years on the faculty at Boston University, where he was a recipient of the Broderick Prize for Excellence in Research. Before his doctoral studies at INSEAD, Lapré served as an Operations Research Analyst when he was an Officer in the Royal Dutch Navy. He is a citizen of the Netherlands, lived in France for five years, and is currently a permanent resident alien in the United States. He lives in Franklin with his wife and their two children.

Education: Drs., Operations Research, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), 1991 Ph.D., Management, INSEAD (France), 1997

Research Interest(s): Empirical research on improving organizational performance, organizational learning curves, quality, productivity, customer dissatisfaction, operating profitability, airlines.