Operations and Information Management
Explore Our FacultyThe OPIM 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 Information Management (OPIM) 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 OPIM faculty and programmatic potential for research and teaching at all levels of business pedagogy.
The mission of the OPIM 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.
Faculty
Meet our Operations and Information Management faculty.
Lapeyre Family & Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor and Academic Director, Sustainable Business Initiative
Professor
Chief Information Officer (CIO)
Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor
Professor and Area Coordinator for Operations and Information Management in the MSB
Baratta Chair in Global Business and Executive Director, Latin American Leadership Program
Co-Director, Global Logistics Research Program
Heisley Family Chair of Global Manufacturing
Professor of Operations and Information Management
Director of Planning and Budget
Adjunct Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
William and Karen Sonneborn Term Associate Professorships
Assistant Professor
Academic Advisor
Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Executive Degree Programs, and Academic Director for the Executive MBA (EMBA) Program
Professor of Operations and Information Management (OPIM)
Assistant Professor
Assistant Teaching Professor in Business Analytics
Assistant Director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics Program
Associate Professor
Teaching Professor and Co-Academic Director, Reach Program
Assistant Teaching Professor in Operations and Analytics
Adjunct Professor
Emeritus Faculty
Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
Visiting Assistant Professor
Adjunct Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor and Academic Director of the MBA Global Business Experience (GBE)
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor of the Practice
News from Operations and Information Management
More Operations and Information Management Faculty News
News Story
Family of Henry J. Blommer (C’26) Donates $3M to Support Sustainable Business Education
The extended family of Henry J. Blommer (C’26) is honoring his memory by establishing the Henry J. Blommer Family Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business at the McDonough School of Business.
October 6, 2021

News Story
Undergraduate Program Virtually Celebrates Graduates in Awards Ceremony
Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business recognized students graduating from the Undergraduate Program on Saturday, May 22, during the school’s annual Tropaia. Watch the virtual ceremony. View…
May 24, 2021

COVID-19, News Story
Office Hours: Shiliang (John) Cui Explores How COVID-19 Testing Can Be Incentivized
As COVID-19 cases surge across the country, testing facilities are experiencing longer wait times, which may be discouraging individuals from getting tested. In his recent paper, Design of…
November 17, 2020