2024 Research Forum – Supply Chain Challenges: Practical Insights from Emerging Academic Research

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Gal Raz is an Associate Professor, Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Ivey Business School. He received his Ph.D. in business and a master's degree focusing on public policy from Stanford University. His research centres on supply-chain management and sustainable operations, with a special focus on pricing, remanufacturing, innovation and government environmental regulations.

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David Johnston is the Director and Research Chair of the George Weston Ltd. Centre for Sustainable Supply Chains at the Schulich School of Business, and Program Director of the Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) program. Dr. Johnston’s published research is in collaborative supply chain management, operational sustainability, improving healthcare operations and the management of process innovation. His most recent work is focused on strategies for securing the long term resilience of critical supply chains.

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Remi Charpin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Logistics and Operations Management at HEC Montréal. His research interests span the influence of political risk on global operations and more specifically how firms can mitigate the effects of nationalism and geopolitical tensions on their supply chains. He uses empirical methods such as case study and econometrics to examine these topics.

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Serasu Duran is an Assistant Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Haskayne School of Business. Her main research focus is energy-related operations management; with a particular interest on the impacts of new technologies and disruptions on existing supply chains. Prior to joining Haskayne, she completed PhD studies at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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Joy Field is an Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Her recent research focuses on designing and managing service processes and supply chains for improved efficiency and effectiveness, with an emphasis on how service provider and customer co-producers leverage technology to drive operational performance.

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Robert Klassen is a Professor of Operations Management at Ivey Business School.

Robert's research interests focus on exploring the linkages between operations and sustainability with a particular focus on supply chain management. This research has emphasized, first, characterizing management practices and organizational capabilities, and second, understanding both the antecedents and performance outcomes of these practices and capabilities.

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Gonzalo Romero is an Associate Professor of Operations Management and Statistics at the Rotman School of Management. His main research interests include operations management in developing countries, sustainable operations, operations and analytics in healthcare, supply chain management, and revenue management. Gonzalo's work has been accepted/published in premier journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management and the Journal of Operations Management. His recent work focuses on using mathematical modeling and analytics to address sustainability and efficiency issues in supply chains in emerging markets.

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M. Rungtusanatham is a Professor at the University of Cincinnati; a 2017 Fellow inductee of the Decision Sciences Institute; a 2015 Dennis E. Grawoig Distinguished Service Award also from the Decision Sciences Institute. He is considered as one of the top-50 authors of research in supply chain management, according to Supply Chain Management: An International Journal (in 2019), and a top “individual researchers with greatest overall contribution to the field of Operations Management,” according to International Journal of Production Research (in 2015).

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Yang Chen is a postdoctoral fellow and recent PhD graduate in Management Analytics at Smith School of Business, Queen's University. His research interests include loyalty and consumer behaviour, machine behaviour, and causal inference. Prior to his PhD studies, Yang worked in statistical consulting positions for non-profit organizations in Toronto.

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Pierre Gautreau is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at York University's Schulich School of Business in the Department of Operations Management and Information Systems. Before embarking on his doctoral program, Pierre gained experience as a licensed professional engineer, including managing R&D projects within North America’s manufacturing sector. His current research is centered on the applications of machine learning within healthcare operations.

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Vikash Kumar is a Ph.D. candidate in Operations Management at the Ivey Business School. His research interest focuses on sustainable operations and circular supply chains, with a special focus on green products, government regulations and its welfare implications, employing analytical methods and behavioural experiments. Vikash previously completed his degree in Master of Business Administration at IE Business School, Madrid.

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Pantea Saremi is a PhD student in the Operations Management discipline at the Ivey Business School. She is highly interested in solutions targeting real-life issues in practices based on Supply Chain Management. She is also captivated by how Sustainably factors would improve the dynamic of such Supply Chains. She is also interested in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and is hoping to apply them in her research.

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Sunny (Huiqing) Tian is a Ph.D. student in Operations Management and Information Systems at the Schulich School of Business, York University. Her research interest focuses on sustainable supplier selection and understanding the ways in which organizations develop capabilities to purchase sustainably, employing methods such as interviews and behavioural experiments. Sunny previously completed her Master of Environment and Sustainability at Western University.

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Chaoyu Zhang is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Operations Management and Statistics at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, advised by Professor Ming Hu. Chaoyu is broadly interested in data-driven decision-making and machine learning in supply chain resilience and healthcare management. Her recent research focuses on disruption management in the pandemic and post-pandemic world. Before starting her PhD, Chaoyu had a bachelor's degree in management information systems from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

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Meena is a clean transportation policy expert working on advancing solutions to decarbonize the transportation sector. Before joining Clean Energy Canada, she worked for the International Energy Agency as an energy, technology, and transport analyst, focusing on strategic policy analysis and international stakeholder engagement where she led the coordination of the Electric Vehicle Initiative’s Pilot City Programme and helped author the annual Global Electric Vehicle Outlook. Before this, Meena worked for the Government of Canada at the Department of Natural Resources as a policy analyst working on files including: the Clean Fuel Standard, low-carbon fuels development, and the critical minerals task force. She also worked at Suncor Energy in roles pertaining to logistics, distribution, and technical product marketing. She has a master’s of environmental technology (environmental economics and policy) from Imperial College London and a bachelor’s degree in biotechnology and economics from the University of Waterloo.

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Raman is a Transformation leader with zest to bring businesses closer to their future vision. He builds high performing teams with passion for creating industry leading solutions. He has led large and complex transformations, ranging from leading operational technology program at railroad to strategic business transformation in airline industry. Raman currently serves as the Director, Financial Planning, Canadian National Railway (CN) and holds a B.E. from Thapar University (India), a M.A.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from University of Windsor, and an IMBA from Schulich School of Business. He is Six Sigma black belt and lean coach. In addition, he is long distance runner and public speaker on transformation.