Department of Operations

Ronald H. Ballou
Professor Emeritus of Operations
Ph.D., Ohio State University

Telephone: 216.368.3808
E-mail: Ronald.Ballou@case.edu

Design and management of the supply chain, especially location of facilities, control of inventory levels, and optimization of transportation systems

Hamilton Emmons
Professor Emeritus of Operations
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Telephone: 216.368.3841
E-mail: Hamilton.Emmons@case.edu

Scheduling theory: workforce scheduling; interval scheduling
Stochastic decision processes, Channel coordination: manufacturer-retailer pricing

A. Dale Flowers
Associate Professor of Operations
D.B.A., Indiana University

Telephone: 216.368.3825
E-mail: Dale.Flowers@case.edu
            adflowers@aol.com

Operations planning and control systems, Quality control and management, Applied operations management, Operational forecasting, Production planning and scheduling, Enterprise resource planning

Ankur Goel
Assistant Professor of Operations

Telephone: 216.368.2506
E-mail: ankur.goel2@case.edu

Kamlesh Mathur
Associate Professor of Operations, Chair
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University

Telephone: 216.368.3857
E-mail: Kamlesh.Mathur@case.edu

Mathematical modeling and optimization, Computer simulation

Peter H. Ritchken
Professor of Banking and Finance
Professor of Operations
Kenneth Walter Haber Professor of Finance
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University

Telephone: 216.368.3849
E-mail: Peter.Ritchken@case.edu
URL: http://www.weatherhead.case.edu/ritchken 

Risk management in financial markets, Derivative pricing, Fixed income analysis, Applied statistics

Harvey M. Salkin
Professor of Operations Research
Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Telephone: 216.368.3859
E-mail: Harvey.Salkin@case.edu

Personal investment strategies, Personal and institutional money management, Statistics, Quantitative methods, Operations research, Linear programming, Integer programming

Matthew J. Sobel
Professor of Operations
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
   Case School of Engineering
William E. Umstattd Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University

Telephone: 216.368.6003
E-mail: Matthew.Sobel@case.edu

Product design and technology change, Coordination of operations, finance and marketing, Supply chain management, Environmental and energy management, Stochastic optimization

Daniel Solow
Associate Professor of Operations
Ph.D., Stanford University

Telephone: 216.368.3837
E-mail: Daniel.Solow@case.edu
URL: http://www.weatherhead.case.edu/solow 

Mathematical programming, Combinatorial optimization

George Vairaktarakis
Associate Professor of Operations
Ph.D., University of Florida

Telephone: 216.368.5215
E-mail: gxv5@case.edu

Production and workforce planning, Just-in-time scheduling, Management of flexible manufacturing systems, Management of virtual and traditional projects, Product/process design, Quality management, Robust optimization