This award by the Production and Operations Management Society encourages operations management scholarship and publication, promotes significant research in the field, and rewards academics that have achieved unusually high accomplishment early in the first five years of their careers. The primary basis for judging the award includes the body of work published, formally accepted for publication, or presented during the five-year eligibility period. The panel of judges evaluates the impact of the body of work in terms of its ability to broaden, extend, and alter the way that production and operations management is conceptualized, practiced, and viewed. The judges are not required to give awards if applicants do not meet the standards they establish.
The committee of judges who awarded the 2002 Wickham Skinner Award were:
Georgia Institute of Technology DuPree College of Management
Professor of Operations Management
Senior Editor, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2000-present.
Area Editor, Production and Operations Management, 2000-present.
University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
Universal Furniture Professor and Professor of Decision Sciences, Economics, and Business and Public Policy
Chairperson, Operations and Information Management Department
Co-director Risk Management and Decision Processes Center
L. Joseph Thomas (Award Committee Chair)
Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management
Nicholas H. Noyes Professor in Manufacturing
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
"Prof. Anderson has demonstrated excellence in several areas in his career so far. He has a
strong theoretical background, as evidenced by his research. We are particularly impressed by 'The Non-Stationary Staff Planning Problem with Business Cycle and Learning effects,' Management Science, 2001 and by 'Capacity and Backlog Management in Service-Oriented Supply Chains,' to be presented at the 2002 POMS Conference in San Francisco...In his research, the committee appreciates the perspective Prof. Anderson adds to operations management with insights gleaned from organizational science and economics. Ed's record reflects the fact that he is an industrious scholar who pursues rigorous research to address important managerial problems. He has a good mix of strong problem orientation and theory-backed inquiry. His work demonstrates the kind of detail and depth that we believe is necessary for a sustained scholarly career in operations."This page was last updated on May 31, 2004
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Email: edward.anderson@mccombs.utexas.edu