Contributors
Craig Carter Professor, Supply Chain Management W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University Craig Carter (PhD, Arizona State University 1996) is a professor of supply chain management and a Dean’s Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar at Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business. Carter’s primary research stream focuses on sustainable supply chain management, and encompasses ethical issues in buyer/supplier relationships, environmental supply management, diversity sourcing, perceptions of opportunism surrounding electronic reverse auctions, and the broader, integrative concepts of social responsibility and sustainability. More recently, Carter has been investigating behavioral decision-making phenomena within supply chain management contexts. Carter is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He is also the associate editor for the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences Journal and the Journal of Business Logistics. Prior to pursuing his PhD, Carter worked in the areas of transportation and logistics with Ryder Systems, the Hechinger Company, and the U.S. Department of Transportation. Additional field-based supply management research with over 100 Fortune 1000-size firms in the U.S. and Germany includes work with CAPS Research and McKinsey & Company.
Kevin Dooley Professor, Supply Chain Management W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University Kevin J. Dooley (Ph.D., University of Illinois 1987) is a distinguished professor of supply chain management at Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business, and a Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. As Chief Scientist at The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), Dooley leads a global research team that works with over 100 of the world’s largest retailers and manufacturers to develop tools that allow companies to identify and track progress on critical product sustainability issues. The Consortium’s tools are the basis of the Walmart Sustainability Index, which was recognized by Scientific American as a “world-changing” innovation. Dooley is a world-known expert in sustainable supply chain management, complexity science, and research methods. He has published more than 100 research articles and co-authored an award-winning book Organizational Change and Innovation Processes. He has provided training or consultation for over 200 companies in the areas of sustainability, supply chain management, quality, and technology and innovation. He is a member of the Sustainability and Social Responsibility Committee at the Institute of Supply Management, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Supply Chain Management and Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.
John Fowler Motorola Professor of International Business W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University John Fowler (PhD, Texas A&M University 1990) is the Motorola Professor of International Business at Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business and has been with the school since 2003. Fowler’s career as an educator is distinguished by his research interest in analysis, modeling, and the control of manufacturing and service systems. Fowler also specializes in deterministic scheduling and operations research in health care. He holds serves on the editorial board of numerous prestigious research journals and serves as an editor of the Journal of Simulation. Fowler is a senior substantiality scientist for the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. He has published over 110 journal articles and over 100 conference papers in discrete event simulation, deterministic scheduling and multi-criteria decision making, among others areas. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and was the founding chair of the first International Conference on Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing and has regularly been a keynote speaker for that series. Fowler is a lifelong Aggie, as he has received his bachelors, masters, and PhD degrees from Texas A&M University.
Bin Gu Professor, Information Systems W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University Bin Gu (PhD, University of Pennsylvania 2002) is a professor of information systems at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and the co-director of the W. P. Carey DBA Program in Shanghai, China. Gu’s research has focused on electronic and mobile commerce, online and social media, user-generated content, and the business value of IT. His methodological interests include natural experiments, econometrics, network analysis, and dynamic structural models. Gu has worked extensively with various research journals throughout his academic career. His research is regularly published by leading research journals in information systems. Gu has also served on various journals and conferences at top positions. Some of the journals include MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Decision Support Systems. Gu has won numerous awards for his research. Gu received his bachelor’s degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1995 and his master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2001.
Sang Pil Han Associate Professor, Information Systems W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University Sang Pil Han (PhD Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 2008) is an associate professor of information systems at Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business. Pil Han’s research has focused on mobile and big data analytics, as well as the numerous applications of quantitative marketing and e-commerce. His research methods have primarily been through econometric analysis, structural modeling, hierarchal Bayesian modeling and randomized field experimentation. Han’s research has been published and cited in numerous industry-leading journals, such as Management Science, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Information Systems Research. Han has also been a speaker for various speaking series that touch on issues and developments facing information systems. Han has also contributed his research and academic work to various book chapters for publication. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2000 and his master’s degree from the same institution in 2002.
James Kellso Professor of Practice, Supply Chain Management W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University James Kellso is Professor of Practice in supply chain management at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. His research interests include supply chain management, industrial engineering, and automated material handling. Before joining the faculty of W. P. Carey in 2013, he was a senior supply chain master for the Intel Corporation in Chandler, Arizona. For 25 years, Jim spearheaded a wide variety of operational and strategic supply chain projects that positively impacted locations throughout the world. He developed and deployed the systems and warehouses that Intel is still using. He developed the strategy that helped Intel achieve a top 10 Gartner Inc. ranking and participated in many experimental projects for new technology deployment. One such project was the implementation of radio frequency identification with the Nature Conservancy that cut down on the number of illegal logging operations in Bolivia. His industrial engineering background included nine years at Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc. as the director of industrial planning in South Carolina, and seven more years in automotive related consulting activities. Jim received his bachelor of science in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan in 1971. He resides in Phoenix with his wife and has 11 children and over 20 grandchildren.
Timothy Laseter Professor of Practice Darden School of Business/University of Virginia Managing Director Strategy& Timothy Laseter is a professor of practice at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. His academic research, published in a variety of leading journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and the California Management Review and Sloan Management Review, generally focuses on Internet-based operational issues. Laseter has also been an advisor to the founder of online grocer Relay Foods since the original idea stage prior to launch in 2008 and now serves on the board of directors. He also works as a managing director at Strategy& a unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers where he focuses on omnichannel retailing. Prior to joining the Darden faculty in 2002, Laseter was a partner at Booz, Allen & Hamilton (the predecessor to Strategy&) with concentrations on operations strategy, supply chain management, and sourcing for a wide variety of global businesses. Before joining Booz Allen, he worked in manufacturing operations at a joint venture between Siemens Inc. and Corning Inc. Richards is the author or co-author of four books, “Balanced Sourcing,” “Strategic Product Creation,” “The Portable MBA,” and “Internet Retail Operations.” He is also a contributing editor for strategy+business. Laseter earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial management with high honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980. He earned his MBA and a PhD in operations management from the Darden School of Business, where he was awarded a Faculty Award for Academic Excellence.
Sungho Park Assistant Professor, Marketing W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University Sungho Park (PhD, Cornell University 2010) is an assistant professor of marketing at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Park’s research interests cover retailing, mobile application markets, econometric models in marketing and economics. Park’s research has been cited and published in a variety of different industry-leading research journals including the Journal of Marketing Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, and MIS Quarterly. He regularly presents research and work at conferences such as INFORMS both domestically and internationally. Park is also a regular guest lecturer at seminars hosted through Cornell University and New York University, among others. He also spends his time as an ad hoc journal reviewer for a number of cutting-edge research journals. Park received his Bachelor’s degree from the Seoul National University in 2001, and master’s degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology.
Timothy Richards Marvin and June Morrison Chair in Agribusiness W. P. Care School of Business Arizona State University Timothy Richards (PhD, Stanford University 1994) is the Marvin and June Morrison Chair in Agribusiness at Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business and the senior sustainability scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability. Richards’ research encompasses both experimental and non-experimental methods of data analysis. His primary research lies in the area of applied econometrics with respect to food markets and food policy issue. His research has been published in leading agribusiness and industry journals, including the Journal of Retailing, Management Science, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and numerous others, and he had been regularly cited in national and international news articles. He has won 11 outstanding journal article awards and is on the editorial board of the European Review of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Agribusiness. Aside from earning his PhD from Stanford University, Richards earned his bachelor’s’ degree in economics and finance from the University of British Columbia in 1988. Richards has always been attached to agribusiness and agriculture, as he grew up on a farm in the prairie country of Western Canada.
Annibal Sodero Assistant professor Sam M. Walton College of Business University of Arkansas Anníbal Sodero (PhD, Arizona State University 2012) is an assistant professor of supply chain management in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. His research on supply chain management, marketing, and information systems has appeared and is forthcoming in leading academic journals such as the Journal of Business Logistics, the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences and the Supply Chain Management Review. His doctoral dissertation used experiments and econometrics techniques to investigate ways retailers might better manage inventory in the presence of social interactions among consumers in social shopping communities. Sodero was born and raised in Brazil to a family of educators.
Rui Yin Associate Professor, Supply Chain Management W. P. Carey School of Business Arizona State University Rui Yin (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles 2007) is an associate professor of supply chain management at Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business and has been with ASU since 2007. Her research focuses on downstream demand management issues in retail operations, such as pricing, inventory management and consume behavior; as well as upstream supply management issues such as sourcing and procurement strategies for firms to manage their multi-tier supply chains. Yin’s research has been published in a variety of different research journals including Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, and International Journal of Production Economics. Yin is currently an editorial review board member at the Journal of Business Logistics, and has regularly been a chair member for INFORMS’ annual conferences. Yin received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Peking University and her master’s in mathematics from the National University of Singapore.