The Academic Connection
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CONSTANTINE VASSILIADIS, PHD
SENIOR BUSINESS CONSULTANT, TRUECONOMY
Dr. Constantine Vassiliadis is the lead researcher from TruEconomy Consulting working with professor David Simchi-Levi on the Joint MIT/TruEconomy research on ‘Supply Chain Management and the Executive Agenda’. Prior to this Dr. Vassiliadis worked with Simchi-Levi on the joint MIT/TruEconomy research project ‘A Research into European Supply Chains 2008-2009’ which gained insight in key trends, challenges and opportunities for supply chain management.
Dr. Vassiliadis holds a PhD in Process Systems Engineering (Supply Chain Optimization under Uncertainty) from Imperial College, London and a Masters Degree (MEng)in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. When he finished his PhD in 1999 he joined i2 Technologies.
In 2003 he went back to Greece to do his military service. Since 2004 Dr. Vassiliadis has been with TruEconomy Consulting. During the past decade he has worked as a solution architect on numerous multi-million euro supply chain initiatives at various companies across different industries. He knows how to combine thought leadership with practice.
PROFESSOR DAVID SIMCHI-LEVI
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND THE ENGINEERING SYSTEMS DIVISION
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Professor David Simchi-Levi is considered one of the thought leaders in supply chain management. Dr. Simchi-Levi holds a Ph.D. from Tel AvivUniversity. His research currently focuses on developing and implementing robust and efficient techniques for logistics and manufacturing systems. He has published widely in professional journals on both practical and theoretical aspects of logistics and supply chain management.
Dr. Simchi-Levi has been the principal investigator for more than five million dollars in funded academic research. He is the editor-in-chief of Operations Research, the flagship journal of Informs, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences.
In 2008-2009 a joint research team consisting of Mohit Pury from MIT and lead researcher of TruEconomy Consulting, Dr. Costas Vassiliadis, he conducted an extensive web based literature review followed by a survey of more than 110 executives.
The research developed insight into not only the key trends, challenges and opportunities for European supply chains but also the differences and similarities between European and American supply chains.
Simchi-Levi is also co-author of several books: ‘Designing & Managing the Supply Chain’ (2003-2007), The logic of logistics (2004), the ‘Handbook of Quantitative Supply Chain Analysis’ (2004) and ‘Managing the Supply Chain’ (2003).
PROFESSOR CHARLES FINE
MIT PROFESSOR
Charles Fine has been involved as academic leader in several TruEconomy organised events. Among others he was involved in the TruEconomy PLM round table on May 21st 2008 and was one of the two lead professors of the MIT course TruEconomy Supply Chain Management & Strategy in May 2008.
Charles Fine focuses on technology supply chains. He examines how to assess the present—and especially the future—profitability and strategic leverage among the various sectors in the supply chain; how to design the supply chain (i.e., determine the boundaries and identity of the organization) based on strategic and logistical assessments; and how to assemble the capability to realize the chosen organizational boundaries and manage within and across those boundaries. He is author of Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage.
PROFESSOR HAU LEE
STANFORD PROFESSOR
Hau Lee is a leading Stanford SCM professor and has been involved as academic leader in TruEconomy organised events. Also he'll be invited in the near future for other sessions. Hau Lee’s research focuses on supply chain management, work that addresses how to get products or services to their destination by managing the flow of materials, information, and money. His research has resulted, among other things, in the building of computer models for industrial implementation, as well as in the development of strategies and operational concepts for practitioners.
Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His areas of specialization include supply chain management, information technology, global logistics system design, inventory planning, and manufacturing strategy. He is the founding and current Codirector of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, an industry-academic consortium to advance the theory and practice of global supply chain management.
DR. LARRY LAPIDE
RESEARCH AFFILIATE
MIT CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS
Dr. Larry Lapide is Research Director at the Center for Transportation and Logistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. He was involved in the TruEconomy organised event on Transportation. This event is took place on the 5th of June 2008 in The Netherlands.
Dr. Lapide has over 30 years of experience in industry, consulting, business research, and academia. Most recently he was the Director of Demand Management at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL). He also managed the launch of MIT’s Supply Chain 2020 Project and is responsible for the Strategy Alignment Workshop, one of three interactive executive education workshops created by the Center.
In 2001, Dr. Lapide was recognized by Supply Chain Technology News magazine as one of four top thought leaders in supply chain; and in 2006, he was featured in Supply Chain Management Review’s “Profiles in Leadership” column. DCVelocity magazine named him as a 2007 Logistics Rainmaker. Prior to CTL, Dr. Lapide worked at AMR Research serving variously as VP and Service Director for Supply Chain Strategies, VP of Research Operations for Business Applications, and GM for Benchmarking Services.
DR. MAHENDER SINGH
RESEARCH DIRECTOR SUPPLY CHAIN 2020
MIT CENTER FOR TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS
Dr. Mahender Singh is a Research Director for the MIT Supply Chain 2020 Project, a multi-year research effort looking into the future of logistics and supply chain management. His research and teaching focus on operations and supply chain management, with particular interest in exploring the underlying structure of complex supply chains.
Dr. Singh has over ten years of experience in the field of supply chain management and has worked on multiple global supply chain projects to analyze and redesign planning systems. He has taught Operations Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he received his Ph.D.; he is also a graduate of MIT-CTL’s Master of Engineering in Logistics Program.
PROFESSOR N. VENKATRAMAN
PROFESSOR IN MANAGEMENT, STRATEGY AND INNOVATION
BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
A pioneer in how to organize IT resources to create value in the new economy, N. Venkatraman is the David J. McGrath Jr. Professor of Management at Boston University and Chairman of the Department of Information Systems. Venkatraman’s mission is to diminish the discomfort that exists between senior management and IT, and to get them thinking and working together creatively and effectively. He researches how strategic management and information technologies interface and helps business leaders reposition their companies in today’s knowledge economy.
Professor Venkatraman specializes in applying a network-centric view to business strategy, IT strategy and IT sourcing. He is adept at bringing together the Internet, intellectual resources, and alliances and partnerships, and at organizing IT resources as a value center. His message is purposely non-technical and designed to help general management audiences think about the opportunities and challenges presenting themselves as we move away from the industrial age into the new economy.
DR. ELLEN CHRISTIAANSE
Ellen Christiaanse is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Amsterdam Graduate Business School at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Professor Christiaanse has spent 3 years as a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School in the US, and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Free University in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Dr. Christiaanse taught at Nyenrode University and Delft University in the Netherlands and at international institutions as a guest lecturer.
Professor Christiaanse’s research interests include on-line supply chains, (mobile) electronic channels and the leveraging of expertise and information as an asset in inter-firm settings, in particular B2B exchanges. She has been awarded several international prizes for her research by the Academy of Management, the EFMD, and the ECIS. Her work has been published in Management Information Systems Quarterly, E-Services Journal, the Journal of Global Information Management, the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, the Journal of Strategic Information Systems, The European Journal of Information Systems, and The proceedings of ICIS, ECIS, and HICSS. Her teaching and consulting activities are focused on IT strategy and electronic channels. Dr. Christiaanse works as a consultant with many international organizations like ABNAMRO bank, KLM, Baan Company and KPMG and frequently acts as a speaker at international conferences. She is currently on on leave at Esade Business School Barcelona, Spain.
RICHARD VAN DER MEULEN
 | Guest lecturer at MIT Zaragozza, European Business School Frankfurt Richard van der Meulen has a long background in supply chain management and performed and performs multiple guest lectures on Strategic Network Design. |
As part of the logistical curriculum of the universities Richard van der Meulen developed a curriculum on Strategic Network Design. Both Theory and practice is included in the one afternoon program for business student audience. |
Boudewijn Redeker
 | Boudewijn Redeker, Lecturer at Hogeschool Rotterdam & Omstreken
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With a specialisation around these topics Boudewijn Redeker works closely with his students to expand their boundaries both on the theoretical side as the practical applications, as well as bringing in the Supply Chain Management perspective. |
Arie van Bennekum
 | Lecturer at Hogeschool Rotterdam & Omstreken, Institute for Communication, Media and Information Technology |
He is also the responsible associate professor for multiple graduating students. Arie van Benenkum focuses on the curriculum for project management and facilitation processes & methodologies and has published the book “Iteraties en Inspriratie”. |
Bas Voeten
 | Guest lecturer at NHTV Breda, Avans Hogeschool Breda and Hogeschool van AmsterdamBas Voeten has a long background in supply chain management. Based on that experience he performed and performs multiple guest lectures on diverse topic in supply chain management. Based on real life cases, supply chain theories are challenged and illustrated. |
Topics convert in his lecture include:
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