Sean Handley

Sean M. Handley is the department chair, associate professor and Moore Research Fellow in the department of management science. Handley previously served on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame and Rutgers University. He obtained his Ph.D. and MBA from The Ohio State University, and received his B.S. in Industrial Management from the University of Cincinnati. Prior to entering academics, Handley served in multiple operational and supply chain roles working for a logistics subsidiary of Honda Motor, CEVA Logistics (formerly CTI), and GE Aviation among others. Handley is teaching, or has taught, graduate and undergraduate courses on operations and supply chain management, process analytics, business statistics, and procurement management and global sourcing.

Handley’s primary scholarly interests lie in studying the challenges and approaches to managing outsourced business processes with a particular interest in: formal and informal mechanisms for managing inter-organizational relationships, the management of offshore outsourcing engagements, and quality management with outsourced manufacturing. His research has been published in several leading academic journals including Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, Strategic Management Journal, MIS Quarterly and Journal of Business Logistics. He serves on the editorial review board for Production and Operations Management and Journal of Supply Chain Management, and is an associate editor for the Journal of Operations Management.

Research

• Outsourcing, offshoring, buyer-supplier relationships, inter-organizational quality management, sourcing healthcare information systems

Education

• PhD The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business (2004 — 2008)
• MBA The Ohio State University - The Max M. Fisher College of Business (2000 — 2002)
• B.S. University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business (1994 — 1999)

Companies

• Professor University of South Carolina (2022)
• Chair of Management Science Department Darla Moore School of Business (2021)
• Associate Professor University of South Carolina (2017 — 2021)
• Associate Professor (with tenure) University of Notre Dame (2016 — 2017)
• Assistant Professor, Operations Management University of Notre Dame (2012 — 2016)
• Assistant Professor Rutgers Business School (2009 — 2012)
• Visiting Asst. Professor The Ohio State University (2008 — 2009)
• Manager, Logistics Midwest Express Group, A Division of Honda Logistics, Inc. (2000 — 2004)
• Logistics Coordinator Customized Transportation Inc., a division of CSX (now CEVA Logistics) (1999 — 2000)