Wallace Hopp
C.K. Prahalad Distinguished University Professor of Business and Engineering / Professor of Technology and Operations / Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at Stephen M. Ross School of Business
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Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Wallace J. Hopp's research focuses on the design, control and management of operations systems, with emphasis on manufacturing and supply chain systems, innovation processes, and health care systems. He has won a number of awards, including the 1990 Scaife Award for the paper with the "greatest potential for assisting an advance of manufacturing practice"), the 1998 IIE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award (for the book Factory Physics), the 2005 IIE Technical Innovation Award, and 2006 SME Education Award, the 2010 Pierskalla Best Paper Award from the INFORMS Health Care Applications Section, the 2011 Ross School of Business Senior Research Award, and Best Paper Awards in 2016 from the M&SOM Journal and the MSOM Service Management Special Interest Group. Hopp is a Fellow of IIE, INFORMS, SME, MSOM and POMS, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. He served as President of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Management Science, and is currently a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management and a founding Editor-in-Chief of Management and Business Review. He is an active industry consultant, whose clients have included Abbott Laboratories, Bell & Howell, Black & Decker, Boeing, Case, Dell, Ford, Eli Lilly, Eaton, Emerson Electric, General Electric, General Motors, John Deere, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Owens Corning, Schlumberger, S&C Electric, Texas Instruments, Whirlpool, Zenith, and others.
EDUCATION
- PhD University of Michigan 1984
- MS University of Michigan 1982
- MS Washington University in St. Louis 1979
- BS Michigan State University 1978
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