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Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains Omega Rho Distinguished Lecture Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains Social and environmental responsibility has increasingly become an issue of high importance in the corporate as well as in the public world. In particular, companies are also working on ensuring that supply chains are socially and environmentally responsible. Interestingly, many socially and environmentally responsible supply chains happen to be ones that are also highly successful in business performance. What are the key issues and concerns that have gained attention in industry on socially and environmentally responsible supply chains? What new teaching materials are useful? What new research ideas are forming? I will give an overview and examine current developments on environmentally sound supply chains, social welfare and equity issues, ways to help develop effective supply chains in under-developed countries, advancements in humanitarian disaster relief and aid efforts, and innovations to help bring economic development to emerging economies. I will also comment on how OR/MS can play a role in such an evolution.
Dr. Lee received the Harold Larnder Prize for International Distinction in Operations Research, Canadian Operations Research Society (2003). He was elected a Fellow of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (2001), Production and Operations Management Society (2005), and INFORMS (2005). He was the President of the Production and Operations Management Society (2006-07). Dr. Lee’s article, "The Triple-A Supply Chain," was the Second Place Winner of the McKinsey Award for the Best Paper in 2004 in the Harvard Business Review. His co-authored paper (1997), "Information Distortion in a Supply Chain: The Bullwhip Effect," was voted as one of the ten most influential papers in the history of Management Science in 2004. Dr. Lee received an MSc degree in Operational Research from the London School of Economics in 1975, and MS and PhD degrees in Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2006, and an Honorary Doctorate from Erasmus University, Rotterdam in 2008. KEYNOTE There is More Mathematics in the Future of Biotechnology Biology has typically been the domain of people who love science but eschew mathematics. In the past two decades there have been fundamental changes in the way biological scientists view much of their field. This is largely spurred by vast improvements in our ability to collect massive amounts of quantitative data on biological samples. At the same time computational methods have increased in capacity to begin to be able to deal with the complexity of biological systems. In this talk, I will demonstrate four aspects of this convergence: the complexity of biological systems, initial attempts to model such systems quantitatively, the genetics of complex human traits and the challenges posed by stochastic noise in biological systems and samples. How the latter affects a very practical objective: noninvasive prenatal diagnostics will be illustrated.
Worldwide Reach into High School Math and Science Classes BLOSSOMS is a program developing interactive learning videos for high school math and science classes in many countries. BLOSSOMS = Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies (http://blossoms.mit.edu). We seek wide participation from the INFORMS community to design and create BLOSSOMS modules and to tell their local high schools of their existence! BLOSSOMS foreign partners are in Jordan and Pakistan, and we are hoping to add more soon. A BLOSSOMS video presents the students with a challenging problem that they have not seen in state-mandated curricula, and seeks to develop critical thinking skills. The focus is away from rote learning and teaching to a test. While science subjects in biology and physics are included, the major contributions to BLOSSOMS have been in applied mathematics, including OR-related topics. The pedagogical model keeps the students in their regular seats with their regular teacher in charge of the class. Each video module works in teaching segments, five minutes or less, then fades to black as the in-class teacher takes over in an iterative 'teaching duet." Full lesson plans are included. We include demonstrations of BLOSSOMS videos, including OR materials. We ask the audience to consider adding to this shared Open Source video repository.
With regard to technology-enabled education, Dr. Larson served as Director of MIT's CAES, Center for Advanced Educational Services (1995-2003). CAES focused on bringing technology-enabled learning to students living on the traditional campus and to those living and working far from the university. He built the center from two to seven business units, encompassing MIT's production and R&D capabilities in educational technologies and its two major lifelong learning academic programs. Dr. Larsen has been invited to give lectures on the future of technology-enabled education in testimony before the House Committee on Science and in North and South America, Asia, Africa and Europe. He was founder, with Glenn Strehle, of MIT World http://mitworld.mit.edu. He is founding Director of LINC http://linc.mit.edu, Learning International Networks Consortium, an MIT-based international project that has held four international symposia and sponsored a number of initiatives in Africa, China and the Middle East. He recently started LINC's newest initiative, BLOSSOMS, sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation with additional support from the Sloan Foundation. On behalf of LINC, his recent foreign trips have been to China, Japan, Senegal, Iran, Indonesia, Algeria, Pakistan, Jordan, Kuwait and the UAE. From 1999 through 2004, Dr. Larson served as founding co-director of the Forum the Internet and the University, a not-for-profit organization affiliated with the Forum for the Future of Higher Education.
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Supply Chain Risk Management Recent supply chain disruptions have caused many company executives, practitioners and researchers to show greater interest in developing better ways to manage supply chain risks. As an emerging area of practice and research, there are three major gaps in the development of supply chain risk management (SCRM) as a field. These three gaps are: definition gap (no consistent definition), process gap (no clear focus) and methodology gap (little analytical work). In this presentation, we present these three major gaps, solicit your views on these gaps and exchange ideas for closing these three gaps.
Dr. Tang has taught various executive programs, served on 15 editorial boards including Production and Operations Management, and advised clients throughout United States, Europe and Asia. He received his B.Sc. (First Class honors) from King’s College, University of London, M.A., M.Phil, and PhD from Yale University.
Informing the Globe with Wireless: Opportunities for Innovation and Impact With over four billion subscribers to cellular worldwide, an increasing number with mobile wideband access to the Internet, and with wireless devices becoming increasingly smart and compact, the opportunities to apply wireless to all aspects of our life are often bounded only by our imagination. Dr. Jacobs will touch on the history of Qualcomm and then examine continuing developments in the technology, devices and applications. He will describe several projects applying wireless in medicine, farming and fishing, micro-finance, education and in machine-to-machine communications.
From 1959 to 1966, Dr. Jacobs was an assistant, then associate professor of electrical engineering at MIT. From 1966 to 1972 he served as professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego. While at MIT, he co-authored with Jack Wozencraft a textbook in digital communications Principles of Communication Engineering. First published in 1965, the book remains in use today. Dr. Jacobs received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and master of science and doctor of science degrees in electrical engineering from MIT. Dr. Jacobs was named Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute In November 2006 and Chair of the National Academy of Engineering in July 2008. He is the recipient of numerous industry, education and business awards, including: election to the National Academy of Engineering, 1982; the National Medal of Technology Award, 1994 (the highest award bestowed by the president of the U.S.), for extraordinary achievements in the commercialization of technology; the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, 1995; Lifetime Achievement Award (for 25 years in telecommunications), Financial Times, Dec 2005, and more. He and his wife Joan have been cited by Business Week as among the 50 Most-Generous Philanthropists in the United States.
Globalization and the Residential University Globalization has become a watchword of our times. The term engenders massive and pervasive dialog regarding its influence and impact, and even its definition. As Kofi Annan has asserted, “It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.” How will, or should, globalization change the landscape of higher education? What opportunities and challenges does globalization offer universities in general, and engineering schools in particular? What about operations research? This talk will offer some thoughts on these issues, drawing in part from recent initiatives undertaken by MIT.
Dr. Magnanti has received numerous educational and research awards and honorary degrees and has served on a number of corporate and university boards. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Syracuse University, and masters’ degrees in Statistics and in Mathematics as well as a Ph.D. in Operations Research, all from Stanford University.
A Banquet of Consequences: Adventures in Climate Policy Modeling Why is the world so slow to address the risks posed by climate change? The problem is not imperfect scientific understanding, nor lack of computer models, but the failure of scientists to understand how policymakers and citizens think. The result: our models are often ignored. I discuss widespread but erroneous mental models people use to think about complex systems, and present fast and flexible simulation models that provide people with the ability to discover, for themselves, the likely consequences of proposals to cut greenhouse gas emissions, models now being used by senior policymakers in the U.S. and other nations.
Global Supply Chain Management Education Over the last six years, the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics opened two research and education centers in supply chain management: one in Zaragoza, Spain and the other in Bogota, Colombia. This talk will cover the efforts, the metrics of performance for the university, the educational programs and the models used (they are very different in Colombia and Spain). The programs in both locales will be described as well as the integration with MIT. The talk will also discuss the role of the university in economic development, ties with industry, working with local universities and future plans. A question and answer session will follow.
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Hau L. Lee is the founding and current Director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, an industry-academic consortium to advance the theory and practice of global supply chain management. His areas of specialization include supply chain management, information technology, global logistics system design, inventory planning and manufacturing strategy. He has published widely in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and Interfaces. 
Charles Cantor is a founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and Member, Board of Directors, at SEQUENOM, Inc. He is also founder of SelectX Pharmaceuticals, a drug discovery company based in the Boston area; Retrotope, an anti-aging company; and DiThera, a biotherapeutic company. He is co-director of the Center for Advanced Biotechnology at Boston University, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Cantor has held positions at Columbia University and University of California at Berkeley, and was also director of the Human Genome Center of the Department of Energy at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He has published more than 450 peer-reviewed articles, and has been granted more than 60 patents. He co-authored a three-volume textbook on biophysical chemistry and the first textbook on genomics: The Science and Technology of the Human Genome Project. He sits on the advisory boards of more than 15 national and international organizations and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Richard Larson received his PhD from MIT. The majority of his career has focused on operations research as applied to services industries. He is author, co-author or editor of six books and author of over 85 scientific articles, primarily in the fields of urban service systems (especially emergency response systems), queueing, logistics, disaster management, disease dynamics, dynamic pricing of critical infrastructures and workforce planning. His first book, Urban Police Patrol Analysis (MIT Press, 1972) was awarded the Lanchester Prize. He served as President of ORSA, (1993-94), and INFORMS (2005). Dr. Larson's research on queues has not only resulted in new computational techniques, but has also been covered extensively in national media (ABC TV's 20/20, NPR, and the New York Times). He served as Co-Director of the MIT Operations Research Center for over 15 years. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is an INFORMS Founding Fellow, and has been honored with the INFORMS President's Award and the Kimball Medal.
Richard O'Neill is the Chief Economic Advisor at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. From 1988 to 2000 he was the Chief Economist and Director of the Office of Economic Policy. From 1986 to 1988 he was the Director of the Commission's Office of Pipeline and Producer Regulation. His work has focused on open access, restructuring, competition, performance-based incentive regulation and market design.
Christopher S. Tang has served many roles at the UCLA Anderson School for over 20 years including Chairman and Senior Associate Dean. Recently, he served as Dean of National University of Singapore business school as well as the Senior Advisor to the President at the National University of Singapore. He has extensive teaching, research, and consulting experience in the areas of supply chain management and retailing. In addition to winning various teaching awards, he has published three books, over 70 research articles in various leading international academic journals and articles in Wall Street Journal and Financial Times. 
Irwin Mark Jacobs is a board member of QUALCOMM Inc., a company he co-founded in 1985. As CEO through 2005 and Chairman through 2009, he led the growth from startup to Fortune 500 Company. Qualcomm pioneered the development and commercialization of CDMA mobile wireless technology, now adopted for all third-generation cellular communications and in use by over eight hundred million consumers worldwide for voice and mobile broadband Internet access. He holds thirteen CDMA patents. QUALCOMM has been named for 11 consecutive years to the Fortune list of “The 100 Best Companies to Work For,” ranking 16th in 2009. Dr. Jacobs previously served as co-founder, CEO and chairman of LINKABIT Corporation, leading the development of Very Small Aperture Earth Terminals (VSATs) and the VideoCipher® satellite-to-home TV system.
Thomas Magnanti is one of sixteen Institute Professors at MIT and former Dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. He has devoted much of his professional career to education that combines engineering and management and to teaching and research in applied and theoretical aspects of large-scale optimization. As Dean, he focused on educational innovation, industrial and international partnerships, technology-based entrepreneurship, diversity, and innovation in emerging domains such as bioengineering, tiny technologies, information engineering, and engineering systems. He has led several centers and programs at MIT including, as the founding co-director, MIT’s Leaders for Manufacturing and System Design and Management Programs and, as founding director, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). He has served as president of ORSA, INFORMS and IFORS and editor of Operations Research.
John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of MIT's System Dynamics Group. His research includes systems thinking and organizational learning, computer simulation of corporate strategy, and environmental sustainability. He is the author of many scholarly and popular articles on the challenges and opportunities facing organizations today, including the book Modeling for Organizational Learning, and the award-winning textbook Business Dynamics.
Dr. Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of MIT's Engineering Systems Division and the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis and supply chain management, which are the subjects he researches and teaches at MIT, both at the MIT School of Engineering and at the Sloan School of Management. He is the author of dozens of scientific publications and two books: a textbook on transportation networks optimization and The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage (MIT Press, October 2005). Under his leadership, CTL launched many new educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, leading to substantial growth. He is the director of MIT's Master of Engineering in Logistics degree which he founded and launched in 1998. In 2003 he launched the MIT-Zaragoza program, building a new logistics university in Spain based on a unique international academia, government and industry partnership. In 2007 he became the director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division, where he set a strategy, revamped the PhD program, and set the division for future growth. In 2008 he launched the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation in Bogota, Colombia, with participation of dozens of Latin-American universities and businesses.