Operations and Analytics
The OPAN Area develops thought leadership to solve emerging, impactful, and applied issues in business analytics, risk and decision analysis, and global operations. Students learn to master these areas, as well as how to use information systems and technologies to support these activities.
At the McDonough School of Business, the Operations and Analytics (OPAN) Area combines four related science-based disciplines:
- Production and Operations Management
- Operations Research/Management Science
- Statistics/Decision Analysis
- Information Technology/Systems Management
The area’s expertise and future growth opportunities are broadly classified into global operations, risk management, and business analytics. These opportunities represent both proven research interests for OPAN faculty and programmatic potential for research and teaching at all levels of business pedagogy.
The mission of the OPAN Area is to contribute to fundamental research disseminated in outlets that have the highest impact. To provide superior and transformational education at the Undergraduate, Graduate, and Executive levels: in global operations, risk management, business analytics, decision processes, and the use of information systems and technologies that support these activities. To excel in our curricular and professional development objectives in a manner consistent with our traditions and values system.
Operations and Analytics Faculty
Henry J. Blommer Family Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business, Professor of Operations and Information Management, Academic Director, Business of Sustainability Initiative
Professor
Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Adjunct Professor
Professor
Professor and Operations and Analytics Area Chair
Associate Professor of the Practice
Baratta Chair in Global Business and Executive Director, Latin American Leadership Program
Emeritus Faculty
Professor of Operations and Analytics
Senior Director, Budget & Data Analytics
Adjunct Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Professor
Assistant Professor
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Professor
Professor of Operations and Analytics and Academic Director for the Executive Masters in Leadership in Qatar, EML-Q
Professor of Operations and Information Management (OPIM)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Teaching Professor in Business Analytics
Associate Professor
Teaching Professor and Co-Academic Director, Reach Program
Assistant Teaching Professor in Operations and Analytics
Adjunct
Professor Emeritus
Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer
Adjunct Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Senior Research Associate
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
Associate Professor
Professor and Academic Director of the Global Business Experience
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor and Associate Director at the Business of Sustainability Initiative
Associate Professor of the Practice and Academic Director for the Master of Science in Business Analytics Program
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