About Panos
Profile
Panos Kouvelis is the Emerson Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the Director of The Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation, a supply chain management research center.
Prior to joining Olin, Panos Kouvelis served as an associate professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and as an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published three books and over 80 papers in top-quality academic journals. Kouvelis has held visiting appointments with the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, where he taught in the executive programs in Barcelona, Chicago and Singapore, WHU- Koblenz School of Management, Germany, and Singapore Management University, Singapore.
He has consulted with and/or taught executive programs for Emerson, IBM, Dell Computers, Boeing, Hanes, Duke Hospital, Solutia, Express Scripts, Spartech, MEMC, Ingram Micro, Smurfit Stone, Reckitt & Colman, and Bunge on supply chain, operations strategy, inventory management, lean manufacturing, operations scheduling and manufacturing system design issues.
Areas of Expertise
Decision Analysis
Math Programming
Supply Chain Management
International Business
Management Strategy
Technology Management
Academic/Professional Activities
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Editor-in-Chief, Foundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management
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Co-editor, Special Issue on Empirically Grounding Analytics (EGA), Journal of Operations Management (JOM)
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Department Editor, Production & Operations Management
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Editorial Board, International Journal of Production Research (IJPR)
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Editorial Board, INFORMS Analytics Collections (IAC)
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Advisor to Editorial Board, International Journal of Revenue Management
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Editorial Board, International Journal of Inventory Research
Education
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, California Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Specialty: Operations and Supply Chain Management Minor field: Operations Research
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering
and Engineering Management
Specialty: Operations and Supply
Chain Management
Minor field: Operations Research
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
Masters in Business Administration
Masters in Industrial and Systems Engineering
NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
OF ATHENS
Diploma in Mechanical Engineering
Awards/Honors
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MSOM Distinguished Fellow Award, 2022
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Fellow of POMS Award, 2016
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Appointment to the Academic Council, ALBA Graduate School of Business, 2015
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Founders Day Distinguished Faculty Award, Washington University, 2013
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Appointed to St. Louis Regional Chamber Multimodal Logistics Forum, 2013
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EMBA Reid Teaching Award, Washington University, Olin School of Business, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012
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M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, M&SOM, 2005
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M&O Classes I, II, III and V Teaching Awards, M&O, 2002
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Best Research Paper, Institute of Industrial Engineers for service to their flagship journal, 2000
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MBA Reid Teaching Awards, Best Teacher of the Year, Washington University Olin School of Business, 1998, 2000
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EM3 Program Teaching Award, 1998, 1999
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Ranked as the 7th most productive researcher of production & operations management in U.S. business school, 1993
Research Interests
Global supply chain management
supply chain finance
supply chain risk management
empirically grounding analytics
agribusiness supply chains
socially responsible supply chains
renewable technologies
machine learning applications
managing commodity risks
integrated risk management
cash hedging
platform business models and supply chains
managing innovation
disruptive innovation strategies
operations strategy
outsourcing and procurement strategies
managing production-inventory systems
lean product development
health care management
project management
project-based supply chains
marketing/manufacturing interfaces
robust operational decision making
facilities location and layout design
lean operations
operational excellence
Professional Societies
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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), MSOM Division
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Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)
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Decision Sciences Institute (DSI)
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Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)