personnel profile

Warren H. Hausman

Title: Professor Department(s): Management Science and Engineering, Operations Management by courtesy Location: Terman 312 Mail Code: 4026 Phone: 650.723.9279        Fax: 650.843.1725 E-mail: hausman@stanford.edu URL: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/hausman/ Office Hours: Varies by quarter Administrator: Marilynn J. Rose

Research Statement

Hausman researches operations planning and control, with specific interests in production and distribution planning, inventory control, multi-echelon inventory systems, and supply chain management. Most of his contributions are based upon quantitative modeling techniques and emphasize relevance and real world applicability.

Professor Hausman is currently performing research on the benefits of improved global trade management in reducing logistics frictions in world trade. He is also extending past research on warranty inventory optimization. He is also studying how operational improvements in retail supply chains affect a company’s financial performance and market capitalization.

Professor Hausman has performed numerous research studies in supply chain management and operations management. He is the author or co-author of more than fifty technical articles on these subjects that have appeared in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, and IIE Transactions. He is also a co-author of Quantitative Analysis for Management, a popular textbook now in its Ninth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 1997).

Professor Hausman is an active consultant to industry and is involved in numerous executive education programs both at Stanford and around the world. He was the founding director of a two-day executive program on Integrated Supply Chain Management held semi-annually in Palo Alto, California from 1994 to 2003. His consulting clients represent the following industries: general manufacturing, electronics, computers, consumer products, food & beverage, transportation, healthcare, and high technology. He is also a co-founder of Supply Chain Online, which provides web-based corporate supply chain management training. He serves on the technical advisory boards of several Silicon Valley startups.

Professor Hausman served as the Departmental Editor for Logistics for Management Science from 1974 to 1982. In 1994 he was elected President of the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA). He has also served on the Board of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and on several National Science Foundation Advisory Panels and Committees. He is a Fellow of INFORMS, a Distinguished Fellow of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society, and a Fellow of the Production & Operations Management Society. He has also won several teaching awards, including the Eugene Grant Teaching Award in Stanford’s School of Engineering in 1998.

Professor Hausman served as Department Chair for the Industrial Engineering – Engineering Management Department at Stanford from 1982 to 1992. He earned a BA in Economics from Yale and a Ph.D. from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management.

For a complete list of Hausman's publications, see his Curriculum Vitae.

Academic Honors & Awards

• Fellow, Production & Operations Management Society (POMS), 2007
• Third Annual Meir Rosenblatt Memorial Lecturer, 2005
• Distinguished Fellow Award from the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM), 2005
• Fellow, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2002
• Eugene Grant Teaching Award, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, 1998
• President-Elect of ORSA, 1994
• Member, ORSA Lanchester Prize Committee, 1983
• Faculty Teaching and Service Awards, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, 1980, 1986, 1990, 1996
• Superior Teaching Award, Master of Business Administration Program, Graduate School of Management, University of Rochester, 1976
• Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Executive Development Program, Graduate School of Management, University of Rochester, 1974
• Beta Gamma Sigma
• Sigma Xi