In today's global economy, managers are faced with rapid technological changes. The Desautels Faculty of Management's Operations Management area seeks to help today's manager meet this challenge through the development of enhanced decision-making processes. The Operations Management area places special emphasis on statistical, mathematical, and economic analysis. This area also encompasses the formal modeling of decision-making problems in different fields found in the critical processes associated with the design, production, and distribution of goods and services.
Research Programs
The Operations Management area pursues an active research program. Recent studies include:
- Management in the supply chain in a dynamic stochastic environment
- Reverse logistics in supply chain
- Efficiency, growth paths and financial performance evaluation in the software industry
- Interior point and analytic center cutting plane algorithms
- Statistical analyses in the medical field
- Reduction of patients' waiting line in hospitals
